2 Chronicles 30:2–15

²For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the ^asecond month. ³For they could not keep it ^bat that time, ^cbecause the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. ⁴And the thing ^†pleased the king and all the congregation. ⁵So they established a decree to ^dmake proclamation throughout all Israel, ^efrom Beer-sheba 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. ⁶So ^fthe 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, ^gturn 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 ^hthe kings of Assyria. ⁷And ⁱbe not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore ^kgave them up to desolation, as ye see. ⁸Now ^†be ye not ^lstiffnecked, 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, ^mthat the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. ⁹For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find ⁿcompassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is ^ogracious and ^pmerciful, and will not turn away his face from you, ^qif ye return unto him. ¹⁰So ^fthe posts passed from city to city through the country of ^rEphraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and ^smocked them. ¹¹Nevertheless divers of ^tAsher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. ¹²Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, ^uby the word of the Lord.

¹³And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the ^wsecond month, a very great congregation. ¹⁴And they arose and took away the ^xaltars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and ^ycast them into the brook Kidron. ¹⁵Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the ^wsecond month: and the priests and the Levites ^zwere ashamed, and ^asanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.