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Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah ,
and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh ,
requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem ,
to keep the Passover to the Lord ,
the God of Israel .
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For the king ,
after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem ,
had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month .
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It was not possible to keep it at that time ,
because not enough priests had made themselves holy ,
and the people had not come together in Jerusalem .
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And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people .
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So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel ,
from Beer-sheba to Dan ,
that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord ,
the God of Israel ,
at Jerusalem :
because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law .
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So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah ,
by the order of the king ,
saying ,
O children of Israel ,
come back again to the Lord ,
the God of Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Israel ,
so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria .
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Do not be like your fathers and your brothers ,
who were sinners against the Lord ,
the God of their fathers ,
so that he made them a cause of fear ,
as you see .
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Now do not be hard-hearted ,
as your fathers were ;
but give yourselves to the Lord ,
and come into his holy place ,
which he has made his for ever ,
and be the servants of the Lord your God ,
so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you .
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For if you come back to the Lord ,
those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them ,
and let them come back to this land :
for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy ,
and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him .
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So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun :
but they were laughed at and made sport of .
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However ,
some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem .
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And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains ,
which were taken as the word of the Lord .
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So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month .
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And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem ,
and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron .
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Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death :
and the priests and the Levites were shamed ,
and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord .
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And they took their places in their right order ,
as it was ordered in the law of Moses ,
the man of God :
the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites .
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For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy :
so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean ,
to make them holy to the Lord .
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For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh ,
Issachar and Zebulun ,
had not made themselves clean ,
but they took the Passover meal ,
though not in the right way .
For Hezekiah had made prayer for them ,
saying ,
May the good Lord have mercy on everyone
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Who ,
with all his heart ,
is turned to God the Lord ,
the God of his fathers ,
even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place
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And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah ,
and made the people well .
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So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy :
and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day ,
making melody to the Lord with loud instruments .
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And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord :
so they kept the feast for seven days ,
offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord ,
the God of their fathers .
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And by the desire of all the people ,
the feast went on for another seven days ,
and they kept the seven days with joy .
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For Hezekiah ,
king of Judah ,
gave to the people for offerings ,
a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep ;
and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep ;
and a great number of priests made themselves holy .
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And all the people of Judah ,
with the priests and the Levites ,
and those who had come from Israel ,
and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah ,
were glad with great joy .
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So there was great joy in Jerusalem :
for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon ,
the son of David ,
king of Israel .
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Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing :
and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven .