2 Chronicles 30:1-9 ▼

1 And sent Hezekiah to all Israel and Judah, and also he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of YHWH at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to YHWH, God of Israel.

2 For the king had counseled—and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem—to keep the Passover in the second month.

3 For they were not able to keep it at that time, because the priests had not consecrated themselves sufficiently, and the people had not been gathered together at Jerusalem.

4 And the matter was right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.

5 And they established a word, to cause to pass over a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come in to keep the Passover to YHWH, God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For they had not kept it as written for a long time.

6 And the runners went with the letters from the hand of the king and his heads throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the command of the king, saying, “Sons of Israel, return to YHWH, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the escaped remnant of you? from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

7 And do not be like your? fathers and your? brothers who trespassed against YHWH, God of their fathers, so that He gave them up to desolation, as you? can see.

8 Now do not harden your? necks as your? fathers; give a hand to YHWH and enter His sanctuary that He has sanctified forever, and serve YHWH your? God, that the burning of His anger may turn away from you?.

9 For if you? return to YHWH, your? brothers and your? children will receive mercy before the faces of their captors and will return to this land. For gracious and merciful is YHWH your? God, and He will not turn aside the face from you? if you? return to Him.”