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1 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.
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his
princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the
second month.
3 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.
4 And the thing pleased the king and all
the congregation.
5 So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba 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.
6 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.
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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and
Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
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.
13 And there assembled at
Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month,
a very great congregation.
14 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.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 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
19 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.
20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and
healed the people.
21 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.
22 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.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to
keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 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.
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