2 Chronicles 30

About 2 Chronicles 2 Chronicles retells the history of Judah's kings from Solomon to the exile, with a focus on the temple.

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:1Ask

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.Selected2 Chronicles 30:2Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:3Ask

And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.Selected2 Chronicles 30:4Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:5Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:6Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:7Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:8Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:9Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:10Ask

Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.Selected2 Chronicles 30:11Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:12Ask

And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.Selected2 Chronicles 30:13Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:14Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:15Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:16Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:17Ask

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 oneSelected2 Chronicles 30:18Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:19Ask

And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.Selected2 Chronicles 30:20Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:21Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:22Ask

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.Selected2 Chronicles 30:23Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:24Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:25Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:26Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 30:27Ask

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