2 Chronicles 30:13-27

New King James Version

¹³ Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of ^(A)Unleavened Bread in the second month. ¹⁴ They arose and took away the ^(B)altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook ^(C)Kidron. ¹⁵ Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites ^[a]were ^(D)ashamed, and ^[b]sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ They stood in their ^(E)place ^[c]according 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. ¹⁷ For there were many in the assembly who had not ^[d]sanctified themselves; ^(F)therefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord. ¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, ^(G)many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, ^(H)yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement for everyone ¹⁹ who ^(I)prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.” ²⁰ And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

²¹ So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept ^(J)the 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. ²² And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites ^(K)who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and ^(L)making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

²³ Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast ^(M)another seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah ^(N)gave 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 ^(O)sanctified^[e] themselves. ²⁵ The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, also the priests and Levites, all the assembly that came from Israel, the sojourners ^(P)who came from the land of Israel, and those who dwelt in Judah. ²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of ^(Q)Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Then the priests, the Levites, arose and ^(R)blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to ^(S)His holy dwelling place, to heaven.