2Ch 29:5, 15-19, Neh 12:45 | ESV | STEP | and said to them, Hear me, Levites ! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord , the God of your fathers , and carry out the filth from the Holy Place .

2 Chronicles 29:5

5 and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now ^aconsecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.

2 Chronicles 29:15-19

15 They gathered their brothers and ^bconsecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, ^cby the words of the Lord, ^dto cleanse the house of the Lord. 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 ^ethe brook Kidron. 17 They began to consecrate ^fon the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils. 19 All the utensils ^gthat King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.”

Nehemiah 12:45

45 And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, ^haccording to the command of David and his son Solomon.