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Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel.
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For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
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For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
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The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
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So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they ...
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So 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 Yahweh...
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Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the Elohim of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
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Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your Elohim, that his fierce anger may ...
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For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your Elohim is gracious and ...
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So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
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Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
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Also the hand of Elohim came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
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Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
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They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
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Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
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They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of Elohim. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
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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.
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For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed f...
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who sets his heart to seek Elohim, Yahweh, the Elohim of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
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The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instrum...
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Hezekiah spoke encouragingly 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 ma...
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The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
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For 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 num...
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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.
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So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.
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Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
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