30:1 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,
the
God
of
Israel.
30:2 For
the
king
and
his
princes
and
all
the
assembly
in
Jerusalem
had
taken
counsel
to
keep
the
Passover
in
the
second
month--
30:3 for
they
could
not
keep
it
at
that
time
because
the
priests
had
not
consecrated
themselves
in
sufficient
number,
nor
had
the
people
assembled
in
Jerusalem--
30:4 and
the
plan
seemed
right
to
the
king
and
all
the
assembly.
30:5 So
they
decreed
to
make
a
proclamation
throughout
all
Israel,
from
Beersheba
to
Dan,
that
the
people
should
come
and
keep
the
Passover
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
at
Jerusalem,
for
they
had
not
kept
it
as
often
as
prescribed.
30:6 So
couriers
went
throughout
all
Israel
and
Judah
with
letters
from
the
king
and
his
princes,
as
the
king
had
commanded,
saying,
"O
people
of
Israel,
return
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Israel,
that
he
may
turn
again
to
the
remnant
of
you
who
have
escaped
from
the
hand
of
the
kings
of
Assyria.
30:7 Do
not
be
like
your
fathers
and
your
brothers,
who
were
faithless
to
the
LORD
God
of
their
fathers,
so
that
he
made
them
a
desolation,
as
you
see.
30:8 Do
not
now
be
stiff-necked
as
your
fathers
were,
but
yield
yourselves
to
the
LORD
and
come
to
his
sanctuary,
which
he
has
consecrated
forever,
and
serve
the
LORD
your
God,
that
his
fierce
anger
may
turn
away
from
you.
30:9 For
if
you
return
to
the
LORD,
your
brothers
and
your
children
will
find
compassion
with
their
captors
and
return
to
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."
30:10 So
the
couriers
went
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.
30:11 However,
some
men
of
Asher,
of
Manasseh,
and
of
Zebulun
humbled
themselves
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
30:12 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
LORD.
30:13 And
many
people
came
together
in
Jerusalem
to
keep
the
Feast
of
Unleavened
Bread
in
the
second
month,
a
very
great
assembly.
30:14 They
set
to
work
and
removed
the
altars
that
were
in
Jerusalem,
and
all
the
altars
for
burning
incense
they
took
away
and
threw
into
the
Kidron
Valley.
30:15 And
they
slaughtered
the
Passover
lamb
on
the
fourteenth
day
of
the
second
month.
And
the
priests
and
the
Levites
were
ashamed,
so
that
they
consecrated
themselves
and
brought
burnt
offerings
into
the
house
of
the
LORD.
30:16 They
took
their
accustomed
posts
according
to
the
Law
of
Moses
the
man
of
God.
The
priests
threw
the
blood
that
they
received
from
the
hand
of
the
Levites.
30:17 For
there
were
many
in
the
assembly
who
had
not
consecrated
themselves.
Therefore
the
Levites
had
to
slaughter
the
Passover
lamb
for
everyone
who
was
not
clean,
to
consecrate
it
to
the
LORD.
30:18 For
a
majority
of
the
people,
many
of
them
from
Ephraim,
Manasseh,
Issachar,
and
Zebulun,
had
not
cleansed
themselves,
yet
they
ate
the
Passover
otherwise
than
as
prescribed.
For
Hezekiah
had
prayed
for
them,
saying,
"May
the
good
LORD
pardon
everyone
30:19 who
sets
his
heart
to
seek
God,
the
LORD,
the
God
of
his
fathers,
even
though
not
according
to
the
sanctuary's
rules
of
cleanness."
30:20 And
the
LORD
heard
Hezekiah
and
healed
the
people.
30:21 And
the
people
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
the
LORD
day
by
day,
singing
with
all
their
might
to
the
LORD.
30:22 And
Hezekiah
spoke
encouragingly
to
all
the
Levites
who
showed
good
skill
in
the
service
of
the
LORD.
So
they
ate
the
food
of
the
festival
for
seven
days,
sacrificing
peace
offerings
and
giving
thanks
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
their
fathers.
30:23 Then
the
whole
assembly
agreed
together
to
keep
the
feast
for
another
seven
days.
So
they
kept
it
for
another
seven
days
with
gladness.
30:24 For
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
gave
the
assembly
1,000
bulls
and
7,000
sheep
for
offerings,
and
the
princes
gave
the
assembly
1,000
bulls
and
10,000
sheep.
And
the
priests
consecrated
themselves
in
great
numbers.
30:25 The
whole
assembly
of
Judah,
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
the
whole
assembly
that
came
out
of
Israel,
and
the
sojourners
who
came
out
of
the
land
of
Israel,
and
the
sojourners
who
lived
in
Judah,
rejoiced.
30:26 So
there
was
great
joy
in
Jerusalem,
for
since
the
time
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David
king
of
Israel
there
had
been
nothing
like
this
in
Jerusalem.
30:27 Then
the
priests
and
the
Levites
arose
and
blessed
the
people,
and
their
voice
was
heard,
and
their
prayer
came
to
his
holy
habitation
in
heaven.