2 Chronicles 29:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They gathered their fellow Levites, consecrated themselves, and went in as the king commanded, in accordance with the words of the LORD, to purify the house of the LORD.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they gathered{H622} their brethren,{H251} and sanctified{H6942} themselves, and went{H935} in, according to the commandment{H4687} of the king{H4428} by the words{H1697} of Jehovah,{H3068} to cleanse{H2891} the house{H1004} of Jehovah.{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they gathered{H622}{(H8799)} their brethren{H251}, and sanctified{H6942}{(H8691)} themselves, and came{H935}{(H8799)}, according to the commandment{H4687} of the king{H4428}, by the words{H1697} of the LORD{H3068}, to cleanse{H2891}{(H8763)} the house{H1004} of the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And they gathered their brethren together, and were sanctified, and wente in acordinge to the kynges commaundement at the worde of the LORDE, to clense the house of ye LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselues and came according to the commaundement of the King, & by the words of the Lord, for to clense the house of the Lord.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And they gathered their brethren, and purified them selues, and came according to the commaundement of the king and the wordes of the Lord for to clense the house of the Lorde:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the LORD’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the LORD.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
  • 1 Chr 23:28 : 28 Because their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purification of all holy things, and in the work of the service of the house of God;
  • 2 Chr 29:5 : 5 And said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness 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 cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

    17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

    18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread, with all its utensils.

    19 Moreover, all the utensils which King Ahaz cast away during his reign in his transgression, we have prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.

    20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 29:4-5
    2 verses
    83%

    4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the eastern street,

    5 And said to them, Hear me, Levites, sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness from the holy place.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    78%

    14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • Neh 13:9
    76%

    9 Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the rooms; and I brought back into them the vessels of the house of God, along with the grain offerings and the frankincense.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 And the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him.

    2 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

  • Neh 12:30
    75%

    30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    75%

    12 And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

  • Neh 13:30
    74%

    30 Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

  • 2 Chr 23:2
    74%

    2 And they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:19
    74%

    19 That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • Ezra 1:5
    74%

    5 Then the leaders of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin arose, and the priests, and the Levites, with all those whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

  • Num 8:6
    73%

    6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    73%

    16 After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers.

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

    29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

    30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    73%

    5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you hasten the matter. However, the Levites did not hasten it.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
    72%

    17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen.

  • 2 Chr 34:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

    9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and all the remnant of Israel, and all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    72%

    10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

  • Num 8:15
    72%

    15 After that, the Levites shall go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

  • 2 Chr 30:12
    72%

    12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    72%

    18 And to the genealogy of their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation, for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    72%

    15 And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    72%

    11 And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not wait by order:

  • Neh 10:29
    72%

    29 They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    71%

    34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 2 Chr 30:15
    71%

    15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 35:5
    71%

    5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of your brethren the people, and according to the division of the families of the Levites.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
    71%

    11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them,

  • Ezra 6:20
    71%

    20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    71%

    19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built for the name of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    71%

    5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
    71%

    11 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them and brought them back into the guard chamber.

  • 2 Chr 20:28
    71%

    28 So they came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets, to the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 9:25
    71%

    25 Their brethren in their villages were to come with them from time to time for seven days.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    71%

    14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:17
    71%

    17 For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passovers for everyone that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 24:19
    71%

    19 These were their appointed orderings in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

  • 2 Kgs 11:9
    71%

    9 The captains over the hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest ordered, and each took his men who were coming on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Chr 30:25
    71%

    25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

  • Ezra 3:10
    71%

    10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    71%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.