The sluggish priests and Levites, who from a lack of zeal for worshiping Yahweh or from an actual inclination to idolatry had neglected to purify t…

And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves. —Ashamed of their former reluctance to purify themselves from the…

Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the
second month
For though th…

The essential thing when attending to God in solemn ordinances is that we make it a work of the heart; all else is nothing without this. Even when …