2 Chronicles Chapter 30    

¹Hezekiah sent messengers to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
  ²For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem decided to keep the Passover in the second month.
  ³For they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient numbers and the people had not gathered at Jerusalem.
  ⁴The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
  ⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, to come to keep the Passover to Yahweh the God of Israel at Jerusalem, because they had not kept it in great numbers^a according to what was written.
 

⁶So the messengers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the king and his officials, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “O children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he will return to you, the remnant who have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
  ⁷Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who were unfaithful to Yahweh the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation as you see.
  ⁸Now do not be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but stretch out your hand to Yahweh and come to his Temple that he has made holy forever, and serve Yahweh your God so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
  ⁹For if you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find mercy before those who led them captive and will return to this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”
 

¹⁰So the messengers traveled from city to city throughout the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but they laughed at them and mocked them.
  ¹¹But some people from Asher and Manasseh and from Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
  ¹²Also, the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart to carry out the commandment of the king and of the officials in accordance with the word of Yahweh.
 

¹³Many people assembled in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; there was a very great assembly.
  ¹⁴They set to work and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Brook Kidron.
  ¹⁵Then they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month, and the priests and the Levites were ashamed of themselves, and sanctified themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
  ¹⁶They stood in their place according to their requirement, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests were throwing on the altar the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
  ¹⁷For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves, so the Levites were in charge of the slaughter of the Passover sacrifices for everyone who was not clean, to make them holy to Yahweh.
  ¹⁸For a multitude of the people—many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover but contrary to what was written in the Law. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May Yahweh, who is good, make atonement for
  ¹⁹everyone who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they are not pure according to the purity required by the sanctuary.”
  ²⁰Yahweh listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
  ²¹The children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day after day, along with loud instruments to Yahweh.
  ²²And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who were well skilled in the service of Yahweh. So they ate at the appointed feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh the God of their fathers.
 

²³The whole assembly decided to keep the feast another seven days, so they kept it another seven days with joy.
  ²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah supplied to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep, and the officials supplied to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep, and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
  ²⁵The whole assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites and the whole assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel and those who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
  ²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
 

²⁷Then the Levitical priests stood up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, to heaven.