2 Chronicles 29:16 meaning and explanation

So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 29:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Hezekiah has just become king and found the temple closed and defiled by his father Ahaz. Here the cleansing begins: priests go inside the sanctuary itself, gather everything unclean they find, and bring it out to the courtyard, where Levites carry it away to the Kidron Valley, the ravine east of Jerusalem used as a dump.

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