2 Chronicles 30

1Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 12:3 · Deut 16:2 · 2Chr 11:13 · 2Chr 11:16 · 2Chr 25:7 · 2Chr 30:10 · +5 more

2For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.Cross-references: Num 9:10 · 1Chr 13:1 · 2Chr 30:13 · 2Chr 30:15 · Prov 11:14 · Prov 15:22 · +1 more

3For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ex 12:6 · Ex 12:18 · 2Chr 29:17 · 2Chr 29:34

4The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.Cross-references: 1Chr 13:4

5So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.Cross-references: Lev 23:2 · Lev 23:4 · Deut 12:32 · Judg 20:1 · 2Chr 24:9 · 2Chr 35:18 · +8 more

6So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:19 · 2Ki 15:29 · 1Chr 5:26 · 2Chr 28:20 · Esth 8:14 · Job 9:25 · +10 more

7Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.Cross-references: 2Chr 29:8 · Ezek 20:13 · Zech 1:3

8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.Cross-references: Ex 32:9 · Deut 6:13 · Deut 6:17 · Deut 10:16 · Josh 24:15 · 2Ki 23:26 · +19 more

9For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion with those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Lev 26:40 · Deut 30:2 · 1Ki 8:50 · 2Chr 7:14 · 2Chr 15:2 · +15 more

10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · 2Chr 30:6 · 2Chr 36:16 · Neh 2:19 · Esth 3:13 · Esth 3:15 · +10 more

11Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Lev 26:41 · 2Chr 11:16 · 2Chr 12:6 · 2Chr 12:12 · 2Chr 30:18 · +12 more

12Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.Cross-references: Deut 4:2 · Deut 4:5 · 1Chr 29:18 · 2Chr 29:25 · 2Chr 29:36 · Ezra 7:27 · +8 more

13Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:2 · Ps 84:7

14They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:23 · 2Ki 18:22 · 2Ki 23:12 · 2Chr 15:16 · 2Chr 28:24 · 2Chr 29:16 · +4 more

15Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Ex 19:10 · Ex 19:22 · 2Chr 5:11 · 2Chr 29:15 · 2Chr 29:34 · 2Chr 30:24 · +3 more

16They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.Cross-references: Lev 1:5 · Deut 33:1 · 2Ki 11:14 · 2Chr 35:10 · 2Chr 35:15 · Heb 11:28

17For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 12:6 · 2Chr 29:34 · 2Chr 35:3

18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyoneCross-references: Gen 20:7 · Gen 20:17 · Ex 12:43 · Ex 34:6 · Num 9:10 · Num 14:18 · +13 more

19who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”Cross-references: Lev 12:4 · Lev 15:31 · Lev 21:17 · Lev 22:3 · Num 9:6 · Num 19:13 · +8 more

20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Ps 103:3 · James 5:15

21The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 12:15 · Ex 13:6 · Lev 23:6 · Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 16:14 · +11 more

22Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.Cross-references: Deut 26:3 · Deut 33:10 · 2Chr 15:3 · 2Chr 17:9 · 2Chr 32:6 · 2Chr 35:3 · +14 more

23The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:65 · 2Chr 7:9

24For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:3 · 2Chr 29:34 · 2Chr 30:3 · 2Chr 35:7 · Ezek 45:17 · Eph 4:8

25All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.Cross-references: Ex 12:43 · 1Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 30:11 · 2Chr 30:18 · Ps 92:4 · Ps 104:34

26So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Chr 7:8

27Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.Cross-references: Num 6:23 · Deut 10:8 · Deut 26:15 · 1Ki 8:30 · 1Ki 8:39 · 2Chr 23:18 · +5 more