2 Chronicles 30
30:1And Hezekiah sent unto all Israel and Judah, and he wrote letters unto Ephraim and Manasseh to come into the house of the lord in Jerusalem, to observe the passover to the lord God of Israel.
30:2And the king planned, and the rulers, and all the assembly in Jerusalem to observe the passover in the second month,
30:3for they were not able to observe it in that time, for the priests were not sanctified enough, and the people were not gathered in Jerusalem.
30:4And the matter was pleasing before the king, and before the assembly.
30:5And they established a communication to go through by proclamation in all Israel, from Beer-sheba unto Dan, to come and to observe the passover to the lord God of Israel in Jerusalem. For the multitude did not do according to the scripture.
30:6And the ones running went with the letters from the king and from the rulers, into all Israel and Judah, according to the order of the king, saying, Sons of Israel, return to the lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob! and he will return to the ones having escaped, surviving from the hand of the king of Assyria.
30:7And do not be as your fathers and your brethren! the ones who revolted from the lord God of their fathers, and he delivered them into desolation, as you see.
30:8And do not harden your necks as your fathers! Give glory to the lord God, and enter into his sanctuary! which he sanctified into the eon. And serve to the lord your God! and he will turn from you the rage of his anger.
30:9For in your turning to the lord, your brethren and your children will be shown compassions before all the ones taking them captive, and he will return them to this land; for merciful and pitying is the lord our God, and he will not turn his face from us, if we should return to him.
30:10And the runners were traveling city by city in mount Ephraim and Manasseh, and unto Zebulun. And they became as victims of ones ridiculing them and deriding them.
30:11But men from Asher, and Manasseh, and from Zebulun felt shame, and they came unto Jerusalem.
30:12And in Judah the hand of God came to give them one heart to come and to do according to the order of the king and of the rulers, by the word of the lord.
30:13And many people gathered in Jerusalem to observe the holiday of the unleavened breads in the second month -- an exceedingly vast assembly.
30:14And they rose up and demolished the altars in Jerusalem; and all in which they burned incense to the lying idols they tore down and tossed into the rushing stream Kidron.
30:15And they sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and the Levites felt shame, and they sanctified themselves, and they offered whole burnt-offerings in the house of the lord.
30:16And they stood at their station according to their responsibility, according to the commandment of Moses the man of God. And the priests received the blood from out of the hand of the Levites.
30:17For a multitude of the assembly was not purified. And the Levites were to sacrifice the passover to all not able to be purified to the lord.
30:18For the vast part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasseh, and Issachar, and Zebulun, were not purified; but even they ate the passover not according to the scripture. And Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The lord, the good God atone for all!
30:19even straightening out the heart for them to inquire of the lord God of their fathers, even not purified as according to the purity of the holy things.
30:20And the lord heeded Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21And the sons of Israel being found in Jerusalem observed the holiday of the unleavened breads seven days with great gladness. And they sang praise to the lord day by day, even the priests and the Levites with instruments of strength to the lord.
30:22And Hezekiah spoke unto the heart of all of the Levites, and of the ones perceiving with good understanding in the lord. And they completed the holiday of the unleavened breads in seven days, sacrificing a sacrifice of deliverance, and making acknowledgment to the lord God of their fathers.
30:23And all the assembly counseled to observe another seven days. And they observed another seven days with gladness.
30:24For Hezekiah the king of Judah dedicated to all the assembly a thousand calves, and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers dedicated for the people a thousand calves, and ten thousand sheep, and were sanctified of the priests in multitude.
30:25And all the assembly of Judah was glad, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the assembly coming from Israel, and the foreigners coming from the land of Israel, and the ones dwelling Judah.
30:26And there was great gladness in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there was not such a holiday in Jerusalem.
30:27And the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heeded, and their prayer came into his sacred home in the heaven.