2 Chronicles 23:6

23:6 No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 26:16

26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. ¹  He disobeyed ²  the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 29:6

29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of ³  the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned ⁴  away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. ⁵ 

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.

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¹ tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”

² tn Or “was unfaithful to.”

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴ tn Heb “turned their faces.”

⁵ tn Heb “and turned the back.”