2 Chronicles 30:2–15

²For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second ^amonth. ³For they could not keep it ^bat ¹the regular time, ^cbecause a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem. ⁴And the matter pleased the king and all the assembly. ⁵So they ²resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem, since they had not done it for a long time in the prescribed manner.

⁶Then the ^drunners went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his leaders, and spoke according to the command of the king: “Children of Israel, ^ereturn to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; then He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of ^fthe kings of ^gAssyria. ⁷And do not be ^hlike your fathers and your brethren, who trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, so that He ⁱgave them up to ^jdesolation, as you see. ⁸Now do not be ^kstiff-necked, ³as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, ^lthat the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you. ⁹For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will be treated with ^mcompassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the Lord your God is ⁿgracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you ^oreturn to Him.”

¹⁰So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but ^pthey laughed at them and mocked them. ¹¹Nevertheless ^qsome from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. ¹²Also ^rthe hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the leaders, ^sat the word of the Lord.

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.