2 Chronicles 29:4
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New International Version (©2011)
He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side

New Living Translation (©2007)
He summoned the priests and Levites to meet him at the courtyard east of the Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the eastern public square.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then he brought in the priests and descendants of Levi, gathered them into the square in the eastern part of the Temple,

NET Bible (©2006)
He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He brought the priests and Levites together in the square on the east side [of the temple].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

American King James Version
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

American Standard Version
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.

Darby Bible Translation
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them into the open place eastward;

English Revised Version
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street,

World English Bible
He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

Young's Literal Translation
and bringeth in the priests and the Levites, and gathereth them to the broad place to the east.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:1-19 When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not offered up, for that was signified by the burning incense. Neglect of God's worship was the cause of the calamities they had lain under. The Lord alone can prepare the heart of man for vital godliness: when much good is done in a little time, the glory must be ascribed to him; and all who love him or the souls of men, will rejoice therein. Let those that do good work, learn to do it well.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - The east street; Hebrew, הַמִּזְרָח לִרְחוב. This word, rendered here "street," occurs forty-two times, and is always rendered by the same English word, except three times, when it appears as "broad places," or "ways." Probably it should always be translated thus, its meaning and its manifest preponderant use being "an open space" (2 Chronicles 32:6). So Revised Version: Into the broad place on the east, i.e. an open area east of the temple.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he brought in the priests and Levites,.... The persons that officiated in the service of the temple:

and gathered them together into the east street; which led to the eastern gate of the temple.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4, 5. the east street—the court of the priests, which fronted the eastern gate of the temple. Assembling the priests and Levites there, he enjoined them to set about the immediate purification of the temple. It does not appear that the order referred to the removal of idols, for objects of idolatrous homage could scarcely have been put there, seeing the doors had been shut up [2Ch 29:3]; but in its forsaken and desolate state the temple and its courts had been polluted by every kind of impurity.

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Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 4And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5And said to them, Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. …

2 Chronicles 29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and repaired them.
2 Chronicles 29:5 and said: "Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.