Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the LORD’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD, the 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 with his princes and all the assembly 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 in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 2Ch 29:34Exo 12:18Exo 12:62Ch 29:17 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. 1Ch 13:4 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written. Jdg 20:11Co 11:22Ch 24:92Ch 35:182Ch 36:22Dan 4:1-33Dan 6:8Deu 12:32
So 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 the LORD, 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. Jer 51:312Ki 15:192Ki 15:29Est 8:14Jer 4:11Ch 5:262Ch 28:20Isa 55:6-7 Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. 2Ch 29:8Ezk 20:13-18Zec 1:3-4 Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. 2Ch 29:10Exo 32:9Deu 10:161Ch 29:242Ch 28:112Ch 28:132Ch 36:132Ki 23:26 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.” Isa 55:7Mic 7:18Psa 86:5Psa 106:46Deu 30:2-41Ki 8:50Exo 34:6-7Neh 9:17
So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them. 2Ch 36:162Ch 30:6Act 17:32Est 3:13Est 3:15Est 8:10Est 8:14Gen 19:14 Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and 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 the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the LORD’s word. Jer 32:39Jer 24:7Php 2:13Psa 110:32Th 2:13-142Ch 29:252Ch 29:36Deu 4:5-6
Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. 2Ch 30:2Psa 84:7 They 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. 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. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the LORD’s house. 2Ch 29:342Ch 29:152Ch 30:242Ch 31:182Ch 5:11Exo 19:10Exo 19:22Ezk 16:61-63 They 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. 2Ch 35:15Deu 33:12Ch 35:10-112Ki 11:14Heb 11:28Lev 1:5 For 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 the LORD. 2Ch 29:342Ch 35:3-6Exo 12:6 For 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 LORD pardon everyone 1Co 11:28Jas 5:15-162Ch 6:21Dan 9:19Num 9:10-142Ch 30:112Ch 30:25Exo 12:43-51 who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.” 2Ch 19:3Pro 23:26Job 11:13Psa 10:171Ch 29:182Ch 20:33Ezr 7:101Sa 7:3
The LORD listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. Exo 15:26Jas 5:15-16Psa 103:3 The 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 the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD. Exo 12:15Exo 13:61Co 5:7-82Ch 20:212Ch 29:25-272Ch 30:262Ch 7:10Act 2:46 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the LORD. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 2Ch 32:6Neh 9:3Ezr 10:11Isa 40:1-22Ch 15:32Ch 17:92Ch 35:32Co 4:6
The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness. 1Ki 8:652Ch 7:9 For 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. 2Ch 29:342Ch 35:7-81Ch 29:3-92Ch 30:3Eph 4:8Ezk 45:17 All 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. 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 nothing like this in Jerusalem. 2Ch 7:8-10 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven. Deu 26:15Psa 68:52Ch 23:18Act 10:4Deu 10:8Isa 57:151Ki 8:301Ki 8:39