And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
The priests went into the inner rooms of the LORD's temple to clean it out. They carried all the unclean and unholy things they found in the temple into the courtyard. Then the Levites took these things and carried them outside to dump them in the Kidron Valley.
The priests and Levites worked together to completely clean out everything unholy from God's temple, removing it far away from the sacred place.
📚 Historical Context
This occurred during King Hezekiah's religious reforms around 715 BC, after years of idolatry under his father King Ahaz had defiled the temple. The Kidron Valley was traditionally used as a place to dispose of ritually unclean items and was located just east of Jerusalem.
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