2 Chronicles 29:16

29:16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. ¹  The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 32:5

32:5 Hezekiah ²  energetically rebuilt ³  every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, ⁴  and fortified the terrace of the City of David. ⁵  He made many weapons and shields.

2 Chronicles 33:15

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

[29:16]  ¹ tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”

[32:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:5]  ³ tn Heb “strengthened himself and built.”

[32:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and outside the wall another one.”

[32:5]  ⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.