New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Chronicles 30:1-6

1Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to 1celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

2For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided 2to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

3since they could not celebrate it 3at that time, because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, nor had the people been gathered to Jerusalem.

4Thus the thing was right in the sight of the king and 4all the assembly.

5So they established a decree to circulate a 5proclamation throughout all Israel 6from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem. For they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it was 7prescribed.

6 8The 9couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from 10the 11hand of the kings of Assyria.

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Notes

1. 2 Chronicles 30:1 Lit do, so in vv 2, 3, 5, 13, 21, 23 ↩
2. 2 Chronicles 30:2 Num 9:10, 11; 2 Chr 30:13, 15 ↩
3. 2 Chronicles 30:3 2 Chr 29:17, 34 ↩
4. 2 Chronicles 30:4 Lit in the sight of all ↩
5. 2 Chronicles 30:5 Lit voice ↩
6. 2 Chronicles 30:5 Judg 20:1 ↩
7. 2 Chronicles 30:5 Lit written ↩
8. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Esth 8:14; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31 ↩
9. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Lit runners ↩
10. 2 Chronicles 30:6 2 Chr 28:20 ↩
11. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Lit palm ↩

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