2 Chronicles 30:17-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ Because there were many in the Congregation who were not sanctified, the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover for all who were not clean, to sanctify it to the LORD.

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people — a multitude of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun — had not cleansed themselves, yet ate the Passover, not as it was written. Therefore, Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “The good LORD be merciful toward

¹⁹ “whomever prepares his whole heart to seek the LORD God, the God of his fathers, though he is not according to the purification of the Sanctuary.”