2 Chronicles 29 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but, as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron:

in this work, eight more days were occupied; and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.the inner part.

2 Chron. 3:8• ⁸And he made the house of the most holy place, the length of which was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he covered it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. (2 Chron. 3:8)

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2 Chron. 5:7• ⁷And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim; (2 Chron. 5:7)

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Ex. 26:33‑34• ³³And thou shalt bring the veil under the clasps, and bring in thither, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the curtain shall make a division to you between the holy place and the holiest of all.
³⁴And thou shalt put the mercy-seat on the ark of the testimony in the holiest of all. (Ex. 26:33‑34)

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1 Kings 6:19‑20• ¹⁹And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
²⁰And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the cedar-wood altar-- (1 Kings 6:19‑20)

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Heb. 9:2‑8,23‑24• ²For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which were both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;
³but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
⁴having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;
⁵and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.
⁶Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;
⁷but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:
⁸the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;
²³It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
²⁴For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: (Heb. 9:2‑8,23‑24)

all the uncleanness.

Ezek. 36:29• ²⁹And I will save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the corn and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you. (Ezek. 36:29)

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Matt. 23:27• ²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. (Matt. 23:27)

Kidron.

2 Chron. 15:16• ¹⁶And also Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it in the valley Kidron. (2 Chron. 15:16)

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2 Kings 23:4‑6• ⁴And the king commanded Hilkijah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
⁵And he abolished the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah, and the environs of Jerusalem; and them that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
⁶And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, outside Jerusalem, to the torrent of Kidron, and burned it at the torrent of Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder upon the graves of the children of the people. (2 Kings 23:4‑6)

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John 18:1• ¹Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples. (John 18:1)

Cedron.

J. N. Darby Translation

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Jehovah to cleanse it, and carried forth all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah, into the court of the house of Jehovah. And the Levites took it to carry it forth into the brook Kidron.