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2 Chronicles 30:1
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Chizkiyahu sent to all Yisra'el and Yehudah, and wrote letters also to Efrayim and Menasheh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Yerushalayim, to keep the Pesach to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el.
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2 Chronicles 30:2
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For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Yerushalayim, to keep the Pesach in the second month.
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2 Chronicles 30:3
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For they could not keep it at that time, because the kohanim had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Yerushalayim.
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2 Chronicles 30:4
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The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
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2 Chronicles 30:5
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So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Yisra'el, from Be'er-Sheva even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Pesach to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, at Yerushalayim: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
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So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Yisra'el and Yehudah, and according to the mitzvah of the king, saying, You children of Yisra'el, turn again to the LORD, the God of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Ashur.
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2 Chronicles 30:7
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Don't be you 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 30:8
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Now don't you 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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2 Chronicles 30:9
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For 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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2 Chronicles 30:10
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So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Efrayim and Menasheh, even to Zevulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
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2 Chronicles 30:11
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Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Menasheh and of Zevulun humbled themselves, and came to Yerushalayim.
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2 Chronicles 30:12
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Also on Yehudah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the mitzvah of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:13
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There assembled at Yerushalayim much people to keep the feast of matzah in the second month, a very great assembly.
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2 Chronicles 30:14
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They arose and took away the altars that were in Yerushalayim, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
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2 Chronicles 30:15
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Then they killed the Pesach on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the kohanim and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:16
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They stood in their place after their order, according to the Torah of Moshe the man of God: the kohanim sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
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2 Chronicles 30:17
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For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Pesachim for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:18
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For a multitude of the people, even many of Efrayim and Menasheh, Yissakhar and Zevulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Pesach otherwise than it is written. For Chizkiyahu had prayed for them, saying, The good the LORD pardon everyone
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2 Chronicles 30:19
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who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, though not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
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2 Chronicles 30:20
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The LORD listened to Chizkiyahu, and healed the people.
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2 Chronicles 30:21
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The children of Yisra'el who were present at Yerushalayim kept the feast of matzah seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the kohanim praised the LORD day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 30:22
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Chizkiyahu 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 shalom offerings, and making confession to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 30:23
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The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
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2 Chronicles 30:24
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For Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah 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 kohanim sanctified themselves.
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2 Chronicles 30:25
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All the assembly of Yehudah, with the kohanim and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Yisra'el, and the foreigners who came out of Eretz-Yisra'el, and who lived in Yehudah, rejoiced.
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2 Chronicles 30:26
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So there was great joy in Yerushalayim; for since the time of Shlomo the son of David king of Yisra'el there was not the like in Yerushalayim.
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2 Chronicles 30:27
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Then the kohanim 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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