And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. 1Co 5:7-82Ch 11:132Ch 11:162Ch 25:72Ch 30:10-112Ch 35:6Deu 16:2-6Exo 12:3-20 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. Num 9:10-111Ch 13:1-32Ch 30:132Ch 30:15Ecc 4:13Pro 11:14Pro 15:22 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 2Ch 29:34Exo 12:18Exo 12:62Ch 29:17 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. 1 1Ch 13:4 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. Jdg 20:11Co 11:22Ch 24:92Ch 35:182Ch 36:22Dan 4:1-33Dan 6:8Deu 12:32 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. 2 Jer 51:312Ki 15:192Ki 15:29Est 8:14Jer 4:11Ch 5:262Ch 28:20Isa 55:6-7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. 2Ch 29:8Ezk 20:13-18Zec 1:3-4 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. 3 4 2Ch 29:10Exo 32:9Deu 10:161Ch 29:242Ch 28:112Ch 28:132Ch 36:132Ki 23:26 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. Isa 55:7Mic 7:18Psa 86:5Psa 106:46Deu 30:2-41Ki 8:50Exo 34:6-7Neh 9:17 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. 2Ch 36:162Ch 30:6Act 17:32Est 3:13Est 3:15Est 8:10Est 8:14Gen 19:14 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. 2Ch 30:182Ch 30:212Ch 30:251Pe 5:62Ch 11:162Ch 12:122Ch 12:6-72Ch 33:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD. Jer 32:39Jer 24:7Php 2:13Psa 110:32Th 2:13-142Ch 29:252Ch 29:36Deu 4:5-6
¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 2Ch 30:2Psa 84:7 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 2Ch 28:242Ch 15:162Ch 29:162Sa 15:232Ch 34:42Ch 34:72Ki 18:222Ki 23:12-13 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. 2Ch 29:342Ch 29:152Ch 30:242Ch 31:182Ch 5:11Exo 19:10Exo 19:22Ezk 16:61-63 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites. 5 2Ch 35:15Deu 33:12Ch 35:10-112Ki 11:14Heb 11:28Lev 1:5 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. 2Ch 29:342Ch 35:3-6Exo 12:6 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one 1Co 11:28Jas 5:15-162Ch 6:21Dan 9:19Num 9:10-142Ch 30:112Ch 30:25Exo 12:43-51 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 2Ch 19:3Pro 23:26Job 11:13Psa 10:171Ch 29:182Ch 20:33Ezr 7:101Sa 7:3 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. Exo 15:26Jas 5:15-16Psa 103:3
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD. 6 7 Exo 12:15Exo 13:61Co 5:7-82Ch 20:212Ch 29:25-272Ch 30:262Ch 7:10Act 2:46 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers. 8 2Ch 32:6Neh 9:3Ezr 10:11Isa 40:1-22Ch 15:32Ch 17:92Ch 35:32Co 4:6 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness. 1Ki 8:652Ch 7:9 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 9 10 2Ch 29:342Ch 35:7-81Ch 29:3-92Ch 30:3Eph 4:8Ezk 45:17 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. 2Ch 30:112Ch 30:181Ch 16:10-11Exo 12:43-49Psa 104:34Psa 92:4 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. 2Ch 7:8-10
¶ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. 11 Deu 26:15Psa 68:52Ch 23:18Act 10:4Deu 10:8Isa 57:151Ki 8:301Ki 8:39