2 Chronicles 29:5–11

⁵And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, ^dsanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. ⁶For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have ^eturned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and ^†turned their backs. ⁷Also they have ^fshut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel. ⁸Wherefore the ^gwrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to ^†trouble, to astonishment, and to ^hhissing, as ye see with your eyes. ⁹For, lo, ⁱour fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. ¹⁰Now it is ^jin mine heart to make ^ka covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. ¹¹My sons, ^||be not now negligent: for the Lord hath ^lchosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and ^||burn incense.