1Hezekiah 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 to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Exodus 12:3, Exodus 12:20, Hosea 7:8, Hosea 7:9, Deuteronomy 16:2

2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

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Numbers 9:10, Numbers 9:11, Numbers 9:10, Numbers 9:11, 2 Chronicles 30:13

3For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, Exodus 12:18, Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:18

4The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

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1 Chronicles 13:4, 1 Chronicles 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 the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.

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Judges 20:1, Judges 20:1, 2 Chronicles 35:18, Ezra 6:8, Ezra 6:12

6So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and 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 that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

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2 Kings 15:19, Esther 8:14, Jeremiah 4:1, Jeremiah 51:31, 2 Kings 15:29

7Do not 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.

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2 Chronicles 29:8, 2 Chronicles 29:8, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:18, Zechariah 1:3

8Now do not 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.

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Exodus 32:9, 2 Chronicles 29:10, Exodus 32:9, 2 Chronicles 29:10, Deuteronomy 10:16

9For if you turn again to the Lord, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and 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 you return to him."

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Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 55:7, Micah 7:18, Micah 7:18, Psalms 106:46

10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.

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2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 30:6, 2 Chronicles 30:6, Job 12:4

11Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 30:21, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 30:21, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 30:25

12Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the Lord.

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Jeremiah 32:39, Jeremiah 32:39, Philippians 2:13, Jeremiah 24:7, Philippians 2:13

13Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

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2 Chronicles 30:2, Psalms 84:7, 2 Chronicles 30:2, Psalms 84:7

14They 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.

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2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 29:16, 2 Chronicles 15:16, 2 Samuel 15:23

15Then 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 burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, Ezekiel 16:61, Ezekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 43:10

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.

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2 Chronicles 35:15, Deuteronomy 33:1, 2 Chronicles 35:15, Deuteronomy 33:1, Leviticus 1:5

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 the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 35:3, 2 Chronicles 35:6, 2 Chronicles 35:3

18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Lord pardon everyone

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James 5:15, James 5:16, 1 Corinthians 11:28, James 5:15, James 5:16

19who 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."

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2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 19:3, Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 23:26, Psalms 10:17

20The Lord listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

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Exodus 15:26, Exodus 15:26, Psalms 103:3, James 5:15, James 5:16

21The children of Israel who 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 to the Lord.

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Exodus 12:15, Exodus 13:6, Exodus 12:15, Exodus 13:6, Nehemiah 8:10

22Hezekiah spoke comfortably 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.

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2 Chronicles 32:6, Nehemiah 9:3, 2 Chronicles 32:6, Nehemiah 9:3, Ezra 10:11

23The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept another seven days with gladness.

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1 Kings 8:65, 1 Kings 8:65, 2 Chronicles 7:9, 2 Chronicles 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.

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2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 35:7, 2 Chronicles 35:8, 2 Chronicles 35:7

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.

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2 Chronicles 30:11, 2 Chronicles 30:11, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 30:18, Psalms 104:34

26So 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.

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2 Chronicles 7:8, 2 Chronicles 7:10, 2 Chronicles 7:8, 2 Chronicles 7:10

27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

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Deuteronomy 26:15, Psalms 68:5, Deuteronomy 26:15, Psalms 68:5, 2 Chronicles 23:18