The Levite Leaders Purified The Temple

II Chronicles 29:12–19
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As soon as Hezekiah finished talking the Levite leaders went to work (vv. 12-14). These leaders gathered all of the Levites together and they went through a ceremony to make themselves clean (v. 15). Then they began to purify the temple according to the law of the Lord. The priests went into the Temple and carried out everything that was unclean (v. 16). First they put these things in the courtyard, and from there they carried them outside the city to the Kidron Valley. It took the priests and Levites one week to purify the courtyards of the temple and another week to purify the temple (v. 17).

After they had finished their work they went back to Hezekiah and told him what they had done (v. 18). They said, “The entire temple is now pure again, and so is the altar and its utensils as well as the table of shew bread and its utensils.” They also told him how they had brought back all the things that king Ahaz had taken from the temple during his reign (v. 19). They had purified them and put them back in front of the altar.

Application

In order for me to be used of the Lord I must first of all confess my sin and make sure my life is clean and pure. Then I can begin to help others get right with the Lord.