2 Chronicles 29:4
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
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2 Chronicles 29:4
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
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2 Chronicles 29:3
In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.
2 Chronicles 29:4
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
2 Chronicles 29:5
And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.
2 Chronicles 29:7
The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:8
And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.
2 Chronicles 29:9
For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.
2 Chronicles 29:11
My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.
2 Chronicles 29:30
Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship.
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Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.
2 Chronicles 32:6
And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,
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1 Chronicles 15:12
And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.
1 Chronicles 15:14
So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Ezekiel 48:11
For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
Nehemiah 9:34
And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
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