And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that 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 abroad into the brook Kidron.
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Gill's Exposition
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,.... In his palace:
and said, we have cleansed all the house of the Lord; the several parts of it, and apartments belonging to it:
and the altar of burnt…
Barnes' Notes
The “inner part” means here, not the holy of holies in particular, but the interior generally. The priests alone might enter the temple building. The Levites might penetrate no further than the inner…
Adam Clarke
And the priests went - The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labor they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but…
We have here busy work, good work, and needful work, the cleansing of the house of the Lord.
I. The persons employed in this work were the priests and Levites, who should have kept the temple clean,…
Cambridge Bible
the priests The work was so divided between priests and Levites that only the priests went into the house.
into the inner part of the house Render, within the house. The reference is not to the Holy…
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