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2 Chronicles 30:1
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:2 |
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For the king had taken counsel, and his princes,
and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover 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 priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people
gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:4 |
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And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:5 |
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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 unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it
of a long time in such sort as it was 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 Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment
of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped
out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:7 |
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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your
brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore
gave them up to desolation, as ye see. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:8 |
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Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were,
but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath
may turn away from you. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:9 |
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For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren
and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so
that they 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 ye return unto 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 Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to
scorn, and mocked them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:11 |
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Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and
of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:12 |
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Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them
one heart to do the commandment 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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And there assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:14 |
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And 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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:15 |
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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 in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:16 |
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And they stood in their place after their manner,
according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests 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 congregation that
were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the
passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:18 |
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For a multitude of the people, even many of
Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet
did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for
them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:19 |
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That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD
God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of
the sanctuary. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:20 |
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And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed
the people. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:21 |
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And the children of Israel that 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 loud
instruments unto the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:22 |
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And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the
Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout
the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD
God of their fathers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:23 |
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And 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 Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation
a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation
a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified
themselves. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:25 |
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And all the congregation of Judah, with the
priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and
the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:26 |
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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 not the like in
Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 30:27 |
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Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed
the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling
place, even unto heaven. |
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