Hezekiah’s Renewal of Passover

2 Chronicles 30:13. And many people assembled in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 14. And they rose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 15. Then they killed the Passover lamb 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 the LORD*. 16. And they stood in their place after their custom, according to the Torah (Teaching) of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, from the hand of the Levites. 17. For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified, therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD*. 18. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover lamb, otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them saying, Good LORD*, Pardon everyone 19. who prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD* God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuary. 20. And the LORD* listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

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