⁹ Then I commanded them to ^(A)cleanse the rooms; and I brought back into them the articles of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.

⁵ and said to them: “Hear me, Levites! Now ^[a]sanctify yourselves, ^(A)sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place.

⁴⁵ Both the singers and the gatekeepers kept the charge of their God and the charge of the purification, ^(A)according to the command of David and Solomon his son.

¹⁵ And they gathered their brethren, ^(A)sanctified^[a] themselves, and went according to the commandment of the king, at the words of the Lord, ^(B)to cleanse the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ Then the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the debris that they found in the temple of the Lord to the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it out and carried it to the Brook ^(C)Kidron.

¹⁷ Now they began to ^[b]sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule 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 King Hezekiah and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offerings with all its articles, and the table of the showbread with all its articles. ¹⁹ Moreover all the articles which King Ahaz in his reign had ^(D)cast aside in his transgression we have prepared and ^[c]sanctified; and there they are, before the altar of the Lord.”