Clean

The concept of ritual cleanliness is invoked here by its absence — Er's behavior was so evil in God's sight that he was put to death, signaling a moral and covenantal breach rather than mere ceremonial impurity.

Clean appears here as one of the Levites' listed duties — maintaining the ritual purity of the Temple's spaces — presented without hierarchy alongside baking, measuring, and leading worship.

Clean here describes the transition itself metaphorically — no coup, no civil war, no fratricidal violence among David's sons, just a peaceful and orderly transfer of power that the text presents as remarkable.

A clear conscience is invoked here to make a subtle but crucial point — being internally clean doesn't mean being declared righteous; only God's final judgment can do that.

Clean is used here to capture the moral complexity of David's path to the throne — gaining new wives while his first marriage is nullified by Saul means his road forward is anything but morally tidy.

Clean is invoked here in the context of Asa's incomplete purge — the High Places remain, meaning the land isn't fully ritually cleansed, yet God still honors Asa's wholehearted direction.

Clean is used here to characterize Jotham's overall moral and covenantal record — the chronicler's assessment that he did right in the Lord's eyes sets him apart from the majority of Judah's kings.

Clean is used here in Oded's rhetorical challenge — he's pointing out that the northern army is hardly ritually or morally pure themselves, so they have no standing to pile more sin onto their record.

Clean marks the completion of the sixteen-day purification effort — the Temple has been fully restored to ritual purity and is now ready to function again as God's house of worship.

Clean here captures the completeness of what God did in reconciliation — not a partial cleansing or moral renovation, but a total reset, underscoring why Paul says 'new creation' rather than 'improved version.'

Clean is used here in the sense of moral and spiritual purity — Paul calls believers to purify themselves from contamination of body and spirit as a response to the promises already given to them.

Clean here carries the sense of a decisive, uncompromised break — the author mourns that no generation ever made a clean severance from the idolatrous patterns inherited from those before them.

Clean is the declared status of Jericho's spring after Elisha's miracle — the water that brought death and miscarriage is now permanently purified and fit for life.

Clean is used here to describe Josiah's future purification of the Temple — the ritual and moral restoration that will undo Manasseh's desecration, restoring the sacred space to its proper purpose.

Clean appears here in the framing commentary, signaling that even God's miraculous intervention won't produce a tidy resolution — the chapter ends in moral and spiritual ambiguity.

Clean is invoked here not ritually but emotionally — the text notes there is no clean, uncomplicated feeling available to David as relief over Saul's death and grief over Jonathan's collide simultaneously.

Clean is used here in the sense of sanitizing or softening — the text pointedly does not clean up David's story, placing Uriah's name on the honor roll without commentary and trusting the reader to feel the weight.

Clean is used here not in its ritual purity sense but in a moral and volitional one — Paul calls Timothy to actively purge dishonorable patterns from his life so he becomes the kind of vessel God reaches for when important work needs doing.

Clean animals appear in the vision as part of a mixed sheet of creatures — but the point isn't food safety; God is using this category to challenge Peter's deeper assumptions about people.

Clean is referenced here as the kind of settled, obvious answer nobody has — the ritual purity framework that governed Jewish life doesn't map neatly onto Gentile converts, and the church doesn't yet know what to do with that.

Clean here carries an ironic edge — 'cleanness of teeth' is a dark idiom for having nothing to eat, reframing ritual purity language to describe the bitter reality of famine God sent to get Israel's attention.

Clean is used here in its ritual covenant sense — the suffering of the wise is described as a refining process that purifies them, restoring what persecution and pressure strip away.

Clean is invoked here to describe a life so morally spotless that political opponents were forced to criminalize Daniel's prayer life because they couldn't find any other vulnerability.

Clean is invoked here as the goal of the total demolition mandate — God insists on starting from nothing because the Canaanite worship system is so thoroughly corrupted that no part of it can be repurposed.

Clean birds — generally seed and plant eaters — are contrasted here with the long list of predators and scavengers, illustrating the underlying principle that what you consume shapes what you become.

Clean is used here to describe the complete, total nature of the debt cancellation — not a reduction or restructure, but a full wiping of what is owed.

Clean is invoked here to frame the chapter's concern: these hard cases all threaten the moral and ritual purity of the community, and each law is designed to restore that integrity.

Clean is used here in the colloquial sense of a solution that feels tidy and complete — the friends' gallows plan seems like it will wrap everything up neatly, though it will prove catastrophically wrong.

Clean is used here in a straightforward legal sense — when there is no prior warning about a dangerous animal, the owner is cleared of criminal liability, though the animal is still destroyed.

Clean is evoked visually through the courtyard's white linen walls — the text uses the image of brilliant white fabric standing out against the desert's dust and brown to picture ritual purity made visible.

The concept of a clean slate is what God is offering Moses — a fresh start, wiping out the unfaithful generation and beginning again, an offer Moses refuses in favor of intercession.