2Ch 30 | ABEn | STEP | And Hezekiah sent unto all Israel and Judah, and [ 2 letters 1 he wrote] unto Ephraim and Manasseh to come into the house of the lord in Jerusalem, to observe the passover to the lord God of Israel.

‏ 2 Chronicles 30

CHAPTER 30 Hezekiah Observes the Passover

1 And Hezekiah sent unto all Israel and Judah, and [²letters ¹he wrote] unto Ephraim and Manasseh to come into the house of the lord in Jerusalem, to observe the passover to the lord God of Israel. 2 And [³planned ¹the ²king], and the rulers, and all the assembly in Jerusalem to observe the passover in the [²month ¹second], 3 [³not ¹for ²they were] able to observe it in that time, for the priests were not sanctified enough, and the people were not gathered in Jerusalem. 4 And [³was pleasing ¹the ²matter] before the king, and before the assembly. 5 And they established a communication to go through by proclamation in all Israel, from Beer-sheba unto Dan, to come and to observe the passover to the lord God of Israel in Jerusalem. For the multitude did not do according to the scripture. 6 And [³went ¹the ones ²running] with the letters from the king and from the rulers, into all Israel and Judah, according to the order of the king, saying, Sons of Israel, return to the lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob! and he will return to the ones having escaped, surviving from the hand of the king of Assyria. 7 And do not be as your fathers and your brethren! the ones who revolted from the lord God of their fathers, and he delivered them into desolation, as you see. 8 And do not harden your necks as your fathers! Give glory to the lord God, and enter into his sanctuary! which he sanctified into the eon. And serve to the lord your God! and he will turn from you the rage of his anger. 9 For in your turning to the lord, your brethren and your children will be shown compassions before all the ones taking them captive, and he will return them to this land; for merciful and pitying is the lord our God, and he will not turn his face from us, if we should return to him. 10 And [³were ¹the ²runners] traveling city by city in mount Ephraim and Manasseh, and unto Zebulun. And they became as victims of ones ridiculing them and deriding them. 11 But men from Asher, and Manasseh, and from Zebulun felt shame, and they came unto Jerusalem. 12 And in Judah [³came ¹the hand ²of God] to give them [²heart ¹one] to come and to do according to the order of the king and of the rulers, by the word of the lord. 13 And [³gathered ⁴in ⁵Jerusalem ²people ¹many] to observe the holiday of the unleavened breads in the [²month ¹second] -- [³assembly ²vast ¹an exceedingly]. 14 And they rose up and demolished the altars in Jerusalem; and all in which they burned incense to the lying idols they tore down and tossed into the rushing stream Kidron. 15 And they sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth of the [²month ¹second]. And the priests and the Levites felt shame, and they sanctified themselves, and they offered whole burnt-offerings in the house of the lord. 16 And they stood at their station according to their responsibility, according to the commandment of Moses the man of God. And the priests received the blood from out of the hand of the Levites. 17 For a multitude of the assembly was not purified. And the Levites were to sacrifice the passover to all not able to be purified to the lord. 18 For the vast part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasseh, and Issachar, and Zebulun, were not purified; but even they ate the passover not according to the scripture. And Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The lord, the good God atone for all! 19 [²the heart ¹even straightening out] for them to inquire of the lord God of their fathers, even not purified as according to the purity of the holy things. 20 And the lord heeded Hezekiah, and healed the people. 21 And [⁷observed ¹the ²sons ³of Israel ⁴being found ⁵in ⁶Jerusalem] the holiday of the unleavened breads seven days with [²gladness ¹great]. And they sang praise to the lord day by day, even the priests and the Levites with instruments of strength to the lord. 22 And Hezekiah spoke unto the heart of all of the Levites, and of the ones perceiving [²understanding ¹with good] in the lord. And they completed the holiday of the unleavened breads in seven days, sacrificing a sacrifice of deliverance, and making acknowledgment to the lord God of their fathers. 23 And [⁴counseled ¹all ²the ³assembly] to observe [²seven ³days ¹another]. And they observed another seven days with gladness. 24 For Hezekiah the king of Judah dedicated to all the assembly a thousand calves, and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers dedicated for the people [²calves ¹a thousand], and [³sheep ¹ten ²thousand], and were sanctified of the priests in multitude. 25 And [⁵was glad ¹all ²the ³assembly ⁴of Judah], and the priests, and the Levites, and all the assembly coming from Israel, and the foreigners coming from the land of Israel, and the ones dwelling Judah. 26 And there was [²gladness ¹great] in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there was not such a holiday in Jerusalem. 27 And [⁵rose up ¹the ²priests ³the ⁴Levites] and blessed the people, and [²was heeded ¹their voice], and [²came ¹their prayer] into [²home ¹his sacred] in the heaven.