2 Chronicles 29:5

WEB

and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

KJV

And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Commentary

And said unto them, hear me, ye Levites; sanctify yourselves,.... By washing their bodies and their garments, tha t no pollution might attend them in their service, see Isa 52:11 . and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers; by carrying out of it all manner of uncleanness, as they did, Ch2 29:16 , and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place; or the abomination; the altar, like that at Damascus, which Ahaz, removing the altar of the Lord, had placed in the court of the priests; or, as Kimchi thinks, an idol, which he had set upon that altar.