^23:22He issued this edict because⁴⁵ a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.⁴⁶

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45 The Hebrew text has simply “because.” The translation attempts to reflect more clearly the logical connection between the king’s order and the narrator’s observation. Another option is to interpret כִּי (ki) as asseverative and translate, “indeed.”
46 Heb “because there had not been observed [one] like this Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

No such Passover had ever been observed from the time of the judges who judged Israel through the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah.

NLTNew Living Translation

There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges ruled in Israel, nor throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel or during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.

KJV 1900King James Version

Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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