1 Chronicles 15:12 -

Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren . Nothing of the appointed observances of the Law are to be omitted this time, as in the haste and want of premeditation of the former occasion ( Exodus 19:22 ; Exodus 28:41 ; Exodus 40:13 ; Le Exodus 8:12 ; Exodus 20:7 ; Exodus 21:8 ; 2 Chronicles 5:11 ; 2 Chronicles 29:15 ). These "sanctifyings" consisted of different observances, according to the person and the occasion, but largely of ablutions of the body, washing of the clothes, and keeping separate from all natural and ceremonial causes of uncleanness in ordinary cases of Levitical service. That ye may bring up the ark . The word here employed for "bring" is not the same with the "carry" of 1 Chronicles 15:1 and 1 Chronicles 15:2 . But the following verses (13-15) seem to intimate that, whatever the exact reason for which Uzzah had been peremptorily cut off, the Levites had also been to blame in not sanctifying themselves to carry the ark by its staves in the way originally appointed.