2 Chronicles 30:13–27

¹³Now many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread ^ain the second month, a very large assembly.

¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also ^atook away all the incense altars and ^bcast them into the brook Kidron.

¹⁵Then ^athey slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And ^bthe priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and set themselves apart as holy and brought burnt offerings to the house of Yahweh.

^16aAnd they stood at their stations according to the legal judgment for them, according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests splashed the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.

¹⁷For there were many in the assembly who had not set themselves apart as holy; therefore, ^athe Levites were over the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was unclean, in order to set them apart as holy to Yahweh.

¹⁸For a multitude of the people, ^aeven many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, ^byet they ate the Passover ^cotherwise than what was written. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May Yahweh, who is good, atone

^19afor everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though not according to the rules of cleansing of the sanctuary.”

²⁰So Yahweh heard Hezekiah and ^ahealed the people.

²¹And the sons of Israel present in Jerusalem ^acelebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day after day with loud instruments to Yahweh.

²²Then Hezekiah ^aspoke to the hearts of all the Levites who showed good insight in the things of Yahweh. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and ^bgiving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

²³Then the whole assembly ^atook counsel to determine to celebrate the feast another seven days, so they celebrated the seven days with gladness.

²⁴For ^aHezekiah king of Judah had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep, and the princes had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep; and ^ba large number of priests set themselves apart as holy.

²⁵And all the assembly of Judah were glad, with the priests and the Levites and ^aall the assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah.

²⁶So there was great gladness in Jerusalem, because there was nothing like this in Jerusalem ^asince the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.

²⁷Then ^athe Levitical priests arose and ^bblessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to ^cHis holy habitation, to heaven.