2 Chronicles 29:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.
  • 1 Chr 23:28 : 28 Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,
  • 2 Chr 29:5 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 29:16-20
    5 verses
    86%

    16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.

    17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

    18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels.

    19 And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.

    20 Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:4-5
    2 verses
    83%

    4 And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,

    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.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    78%

    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Neh 13:9
    76%

    9 Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

    2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

  • Neh 12:30
    75%

    30 And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    75%

    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.

  • Neh 13:30
    74%

    30 So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

  • 2 Chr 23:2
    74%

    2 And they went through Judah, getting together the Levites and the heads of families in Israel from all the towns of Judah, and they came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:19
    74%

    19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

  • Ezra 1:5
    74%

    5 Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.

  • Num 8:6
    73%

    6 Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    73%

    16 And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 34:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

    30 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    73%

    5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
    72%

    17 They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen.

  • 2 Chr 34:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.

    9 And they came to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and gave him all the money which had been taken into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had got from Manasseh and Ephraim and those of Israel who had not been taken away as prisoners, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the people of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    72%

    10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

  • Num 8:15
    72%

    15 After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

  • 2 Chr 30:12
    72%

    12 And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    72%

    18 And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    72%

    15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    72%

    11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

  • Neh 10:29
    72%

    29 They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    71%

    34 There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

  • 2 Chr 30:15
    71%

    15 Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 35:5
    71%

    5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
    71%

    11 Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.

  • Ezra 6:20
    71%

    20 For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    71%

    19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    71%

    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
    71%

    11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • 2 Chr 20:28
    71%

    28 So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 9:25
    71%

    25 And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    71%

    14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:17
    71%

    17 For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 24:19
    71%

    19 So they were put into their different groups, to take their places in the house of the Lord, in agreement with the rules made by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

  • 2 Kgs 11:9
    71%

    9 And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Chr 30:25
    71%

    25 And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.

  • Ezra 3:10
    71%

    10 And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    71%

    15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.