I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and should come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

I commanded.

Nehemiah 7:64,65 These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood. . . .

Nehemiah 12:30 And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

2 Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

1 Chronicles 15:12-14 And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it: . . .

2 Chronicles 29:4,5,24,27,30 And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street. . . .

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

cleanse.

Nehemiah 12:10 And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib begot Joiada,

sanctify.

Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Remember.

Nehemiah 13:14,31 Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies. . . .

Nehemiah 5:19 Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.

Psalm 132:1-5 A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness. . . .

Isaiah 38:3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. . . .

spare me.

Psalm 25:6,7 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world. . . .

Psalm 51:1 Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Psalm 130:3,4,7 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. . . .

Psalm 143:1,2 A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice. . . .

greatness.

Psalm 5:7 But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.