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target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> at Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>since they could not celebrate it at that time, because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, nor had the people been gathered to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus the thing was right in the sight of the king and all the assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout all Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to celebrate the Passover to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Israel at Jerusalem. For they had not celebrated <i>it</i> in great numbers as it was prescribed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>The couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, return to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped <i>and</i> are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Now do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and enter His sanctuary which He has consecrated forever, and serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, that His burning anger may turn away from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>For if you return to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, your brothers and your sons <i>will find</i> compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn <i>His</i> face away from you if you return to Him. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Passover Reinstituted</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Now many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very large assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>They arose and removed the altars which <i>were</i> in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and cast <i>them</i> into the brook Kidron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Then they slaughtered the Passover <i>lambs</i> on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>They stood at their stations after their custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood <i>which they received</i> from the hand of the Levites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For <i>there were</i> many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves; therefore, the Levites <i>were</i> over the slaughter of the Passover <i>lambs</i> for everyone who <i>was</i> unclean, in order to consecrate <i>them</i> to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>For a multitude of the people, <i>even</i> many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the good L<font size="1">ORD</font> pardon <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of his fathers, though not according to the purification <i>rules</i> of the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>So the L<font size="1">ORD</font> heard Hezekiah and healed the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>The sons of Israel present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread <i>for</i> seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests praised the L<font size="1">ORD</font> day after day with loud instruments to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good insight <i>in the things</i> of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> God of their fathers. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate <i>the feast</i> another seven days, so they celebrated the seven days with joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For Hezekiah king of Judah had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep, and the princes had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep; and a large number of priests consecrated themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>All the assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>So there was great joy in Jerusalem, because there was nothing like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_chronicles/30.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/30.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_chronicles/30.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_chronicles/30.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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, the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/30.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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 to the LORD God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_chronicles/30.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/30.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Hezekiah sendeth unto all Israel and Judah, and also letters he hath written unto Ephraim and Manasseh, to come in to the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, to make a passover to Jehovah, God of Israel.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/a_loving_call_to_reunion.htm">A Loving Call to Reunion</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/a_loving_call_to_reunion.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/of_antichrist_and_his_ruin_.htm">Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">BY JOHN BUNYAN PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR This important treatise was prepared for the press, and left by the author, at his decease, to the care of his surviving friend for publication. It first appeared in a collection of his works in folio, 1692; and although a subject of universal interest; most admirably elucidated; no edition has been published in a separate form. Antichrist has agitated the Christian world from the earliest ages; and his craft has been to mislead the thoughtless, by <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/of_antichrist_and_his_ruin_.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_new_temple_and_its.htm">The New Temple and Its Worship</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo: and they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. 16. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/the_new_temple_and_its.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_28_hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In sharp contrast with the reckless rule of Ahaz was the reformation wrought during the prosperous reign of his son. Hezekiah came to the throne determined to do all in his power to save Judah from the fate that was overtaking the northern kingdom. The messages of the prophets offered no encouragement to halfway measures. Only by most decided reformation could be threatened judgments be averted. In the crisis, Hezekiah proved to be a man of opportunity. No sooner had he ascended the throne than he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_28_hezekiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_v_rabbinic_theology_and.htm">Appendix v. Rabbinic Theology and Literature</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. The Traditional Law. - The brief account given in vol. i. p. 100, of the character and authority claimed for the traditional law may here be supplemented by a chronological arrangement of the Halakhoth in the order of their supposed introduction or promulgation. In the first class, or Halakhoth of Moses from Sinai,' tradition enumerates fifty-five, [6370] which may be thus designated: religio-agrarian, four; [6371] ritual, including questions about clean and unclean,' twenty-three; [6372] concerning <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_v_rabbinic_theology_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_quotation_in_matt_ii.htm">The Quotation in Matt. Ii. 6. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Several interpreters, Paulus especially, have asserted that the interpretation of Micah which is here given, was that of the Sanhedrim only, and not of the Evangelist, who merely recorded what happened and was said. But this assertion is at once refuted when we consider the object which Matthew has in view in his entire representation of the early life of Jesus. His object in recording the early life of Jesus is not like that of Luke, viz., to communicate historical information to his readers. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_quotation_in_matt_ii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xii_covenanting_performed_in.htm">Covenanting Performed in Former Ages with Approbation from Above. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That the Lord gave special token of his approbation of the exercise of Covenanting, it belongs to this place to show. His approval of the duty was seen when he unfolded the promises of the Everlasting Covenant to his people, while they endeavoured to perform it; and his approval thereof is continually seen in his fulfilment to them of these promises. The special manifestations of his regard, made to them while attending to the service before him, belonged to one or other, or both, of those exhibitions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xii_covenanting_performed_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_iii_covenanting_a_duty.htm">Covenanting a Duty. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The exercise of Covenanting with God is enjoined by Him as the Supreme Moral Governor of all. That his Covenant should be acceded to, by men in every age and condition, is ordained as a law, sanctioned by his high authority,--recorded in his law of perpetual moral obligation on men, as a statute decreed by him, and in virtue of his underived sovereignty, promulgated by his command. "He hath commanded his covenant for ever."[171] The exercise is inculcated according to the will of God, as King and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_iii_covenanting_a_duty.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm">Chronicles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/chronicles.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_chronicles/30-1.htm">2 Chronicles 30:1 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_chronicles/29-36.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 29:36"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 29:36" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_chronicles/30-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 30:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 30:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_chronicles/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>