9. our ancestors killed in battle, but our own children and wives were taken captive.
10. So I have decided to renew our agreement with the Lord God of Israel. Perhaps then he will stop being so angry with us.
11. Let's not waste any time, my friends. You are the ones who were chosen to be the Lord's priests and to offer him sacrifices.
15. These leaders gathered together the rest of the Levites, and they all went through the ceremony to make themselves clean. Then they began to purify the temple according to the Law of the Lord, just as Hezekiah had commanded.
16. The priests went into the temple and carried out everything that was unclean. They put these things in the courtyard, and from there, the Levites carried them outside the city to Kidron Valley.