John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:5
And said unto them, hear me, ye Levites; sanctify yourselves ,.... By washing their bodies and their garments, that no pollution might attend them in their service, see Isaiah 52:11 . and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers ; by carrying out of it all manner of uncleanness, as they did, 2 Chronicles 29:16 , and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place ; or the abomination; the altar, like that at Damascus, which Ahaz, removing the altar of the Lord, had... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns, was but eight, which occasioned the delay of the reformation; but Hezekiah had come to years, and so applied himself immediately to it. We may well think with what a sorrowful heart he beheld his father's idolatry and profaneness, how it troubled him to see the doors of the temple shut, though,... read more