2 Chronicles 5:11 “Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regard…”

2 Chronicles 5:11

Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

World English Bible

When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;

American Standard Version

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

Geneva Bible 1599

And when the Priestes were come out of the Sanctuarie (for all the Priests that were present, were sanctified and did not waite by course.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present were hallowed without observing the courses;

Young's Literal Translation

And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the sanctuary — for all the priests who are present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,

Bible in Basic English

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

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Cross references

“sanctified”

2 Chronicles 29:5 2 Chronicles 30:17–20 Job 1:5 2 Chronicles 29:15 2 Chronicles 29:34 2 Chronicles 30:15

2 Chronicles 29:5 · BSB

“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.

2 Chronicles 30:17–20 · BSB

Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

Job 1:5 · BSB

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed…

2 Chronicles 29:15 · BSB

When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:34 · BSB

However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had consecrated themselves. For the Levites had been more…

2 Chronicles 30:15 · BSB

And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.

“wait by course”

2 Chronicles 35:4 1 Chronicles 24:1–31

2 Chronicles 35:4 · BSB

Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.

1 Chronicles 24:1–31 · BSB

These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

12all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.

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