2 Chronicles 30:13–27

¹³Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of ^tUnleavened Bread in the second month. ¹⁴They arose and took away the ^ualtars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook ^vKidron. ¹⁵Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites ⁴were ^washamed, and ⁵sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord. ¹⁶They stood in their ^xplace ⁶according to their custom, according to the Law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites. ¹⁷For there were many in the assembly who had not ⁷sanctified themselves; ^ytherefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord. ¹⁸For a multitude of the people, ^zmany from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, ^ayet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement for everyone ¹⁹who ^bprepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.” ²⁰And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

²¹So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept ^cthe Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments. ²²And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites ^dwho taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and ^emaking confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

²³Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast ^fanother seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness. ²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah ^ggave to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the leaders gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests ^hsanctified ⁸themselves. ²⁵The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, also the priests and Levites, all the assembly that came from Israel, the sojourners ⁱwho came from the land of Israel, and those who dwelt in Judah. ²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of ^jSolomon the son of David, king of Israel, there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. ²⁷Then the priests, the Levites, arose and ^kblessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to ^lHis holy dwelling place, to heaven.