2 Chronicles 30:1-9

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. 68The 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. 712Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that 13He made them a horror, as you see. 8Now do not 14stiffen your neck like your fathers, but 15yield to the Lord and enter His sanctuary which He has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, 16that His burning anger may turn away from you. 9For 17if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. 18For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”