Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
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Gill's Exposition
Moreover, all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression,.... Not that he threw them away, being valuable, as made of gold and silver; but, as Kimchi interprets it, he…
Adam Clarke
On the first day - "They began on the first day of the first month Nisan." - Targum.
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
to sanctify … so they sanctified Two periods of eight days each were spent in "sanctifying," the courts apparently occupying eight days and the house itself eight days.
in the sixteenth day The LXX.…
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