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but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Also 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 Yahweh.</p> <p class="hdg">Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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 burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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 Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For 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 Yahweh pardon everyone <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren't clean according to the purification of the sanctuary." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The 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 Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For Hezekiah king of Judah did give 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then 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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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