2 Chronicles 29:5–15

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.

¹²Then the Levites arose, ^mMahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the ⁿKohathites: and of the sons of ⁿMerari, ^oKish the son of Abdi, and ^mAzariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the ⁿGershonites; ^pJoah the son of Zimmah, and ^mEden the son of Joah: ¹³And of the sons of ^qElizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of ^rAsaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: ¹⁴And of the sons of ^sHeman; ^mJehiel, and ^mShimei: and of the sons of ^sJeduthun; ^mShemaiah, and Uzziel. ¹⁵And they gathered their brethren, and ^tsanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, ^||by the words of the Lord, ^uto cleanse the house of the Lord.