2 Chronicles 29:4-10

4He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the public square on the east.

5Then he said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites. 1Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out of the holy place.

6For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him and 2turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have 3turned their backs.

7They have also 4shut the doors of the porch and extinguished the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

8Therefore 5the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of 6hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

9For behold, 7our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.

10Now it is in my heart 8to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that His burning anger may turn away from us.