他召众祭司和利未人来，聚集在东边的宽阔处，
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
对他们说，利未人哪，当听我说，现在你们要洁净自己，又洁净耶和华你们列祖神的殿，从圣所中除去污秽之物。
And said unto them, Hear me, ye 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.
我们列祖犯了罪，行耶和华我们神眼中看为恶的事，离弃他，转脸背向他的居所，
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
封锁廊门，吹灭灯火，不在圣所中向以色列神烧香，或献燔祭。
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
所以我们的祖宗倒在刀下，我们的妻子儿女也被掳掠。
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
现在我心中有意与耶和华以色列的神立约，好使他的烈怒转离我们。
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
以利撒反的子孙申利和耶利。亚萨的子孙撒迦利雅和玛探雅。
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
祭司进入耶和华的殿要洁净殿，将殿中所有污秽之物搬到耶和华殿的院内，利未人接去，搬到外头汲沦溪边。
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
于是，他们晋见希西家王，说，我们已将耶和华的全殿和燔祭坛，并坛的一切器皿，陈设饼的桌子，与桌子的一切器皿都洁净了。
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
并且亚哈斯王在位犯罪的时候所废弃的器皿，我们预备齐全，且洁净了，现今都在耶和华的坛前。
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.