2Ch 29:16, 34:3-8, Eze 36:25, Mat 21:12-13, 1Cor 3:16-17, 2Cor 6:16, 7:1 | ESV | STEP | The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they 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 and carried it out to the brook Kidron .

16 The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they 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 and carried it out to ^athe brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 34:3-8

3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the ^bAsherim, and the carved and the metal images. 4 And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the ^cincense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the ^dAsherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and ^escattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 ^fHe also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And in the ^gcities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} all around, 7 he broke down the altars and beat the ⁱAsherim and the images ^jinto powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

The Book of the Law Found

8 ^kNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the ^lgovernor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, ^mthe recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

Ezekiel 36:25

25 ⁿI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from ^oall your uncleannesses, and ^pfrom all your idols ^qI will cleanse you.

Matthew 21:12-13

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 ^rAnd Jesus entered the temple ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add of God} and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ^tthe money-changers and the seats of those who sold ^upigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ^v‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but ^wyou make it a den of robbers.”

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

16 ^xDo you not know that you ^{▼▼The Greek for you is plural in verses 16 and 17} are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For ^zGod’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

2 Corinthians 6:16

16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ^aawe are the temple of the living God; as God said,

^ab“I will make my dwelling among them and ^acwalk among them,
and ^adI will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

2 Corinthians 7:1

1 Since we have these promises, beloved, ^aelet us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body ^{▼▼Greek flesh} and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.