Study it in the app“They gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves and went in, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of YHWH, to cleanse the house of YHWH.”
They gatheredוַיַּאַסְפוּtheir brothersאֶת אֲחֵיהֶםand sanctified themselvesוַיִּתְקַדְּשׁוּand went in,וַיָּבֹאוּaccording to the commandmentכְמִצְוַתof the king,הַמֶּלֶךְby the wordsבְּדִבְרֵיof YHWH,יְהוָהto cleanseלְטַהֵרthe houseבֵּיתof YHWH.יְהוָה
assemble
To bring people together in one place.
Where else “yaasfu” appearsbrother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “ache” appearssanctify oneself
To prepare to come before God.
Where else “yitkadshu” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavou” appearscommandment
An order of God that must be kept.
Where else “mitsvat” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsdeclare clean
To wash someone of impurity, or pronounce them free of it.
Where else “taher” appearstemple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “bet” appears14and of the sons of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 · This verse (above)
16The priests went into the inner part of the house of YHWH to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of YHWH to the court of the house of YHWH; and the Levites received it to carry it out to the brook Kidron, outside.
