Study it in the app“The 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.”
The priestsהַכֹּהֲנִיםwentוַיָּבֹאוּinto the inner partלִפְנִימָהof the houseבֵיתof YHWHיְהוָהto cleanse it,לְטַהֵרand they brought outוַיּוֹצִיאוּallאֵת כָּלthe uncleannessהַטֻּמְאָהthatאֲשֶׁרthey foundמָצְאוּin the templeבְּהֵיכַלof YHWHיְהוָהto the courtלַחֲצַרof the houseבֵּיתof YHWH;יְהוָהand the Levitesוַ הַלְוִיִּםreceived itיְקַבְּלוּto carry it outלְהוֹצִיאto the brookלְנַחַלKidron,קִדְרוֹןoutside.חוּצָה
priest
One who serves in the sanctuary and offers for the people.
Where else “kohanim” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavou” appearsinside
Toward the inside, within.
Where else “fenima” appearstemple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “vet” 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” appearsbring out
To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".
Where else “yotsiu” appearsuncleanness
The state of one who cannot approach what is holy until washed and waiting.
Where else “tuma” appearsfind
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “matsu” appearstemple
Literally "palace": YHWH's great house.
Where else “hechal” appearscourt
An enclosed open space, like the temple's.
Where else “chatsar” appearsLevite
Levite: of the tribe of Levi.
Where else “leviyim” appearsreceive
To take on something, good or bad.
Where else “yekablu” appearstorrent
A channel that runs with water only in the rainy season.
Where else “nachal” appearsKidron
See it on the mapWhere else “kidron” appearsoutside
What lies outside the house, the city or the camp.
Where else “chutsa” appearsKidron
Today: Kidron Valley (Wadi en-Nar), Jerusalem
The valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, east of the city.
David crossed it as he fled from Absalom (2 Sam 15:23). Good kings burned idolatrous objects there (2 Kgs 23:4).
15They 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.
16 · This verse (above)
17They began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of YHWH; and they sanctified the house of YHWH in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
