2 Chronicles 30:10-19

10As the couriers traveled from town to town through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as Zebulun, they were scorned and mocked.

11Nevertheless some men from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

12The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of Adonai.

13Now a very large assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Matzot in the second month.

14They arose and removed the altars and all the incense altars that were in Jerusalem, and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

15Then they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The kohanim and the Levites were ashamed and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the House of Adonai.

16They stood at their post as prescribed in the Torah of Moses, the man of God. The kohanim sprinkled the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.

17For there were many in the congregation that had not concecrated themselves, therefore the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for everyone that was not ceremonially clean in order to concecrate them to Adonai.

18Although a great multitude of the people—many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, they still ate the Passover lamb contrary to what is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them saying: “May Adonai who is good, atone for

19every one who prepares his heart to seek Adonai, the God of his fathers, even though he is not pure according to rules of the sanctuary.”