2 Kings 23:23
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New International Version (©2011)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Josiah, this Passover was observed in Jerusalem to honor the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, this Passover was celebrated in Jerusalem for the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

American King James Version
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.

Darby Bible Translation
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

World English Bible
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, hath this passover been made to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:15-24 Josiah's zeal extended to the cities of Israel within his reach. He carefully preserved the sepulchre of that man of God, who came from Judah to foretell the throwing down of Jeroboam's altar. When they had cleared the country of the old leaven of idolatry, then they applied themselves to the keeping of the feast. There was not holden such a passover in any of the foregoing reigns. The revival of a long-neglected ordinance, filled them with holy joy; and God recompensed their zeal in destroying idolatry with uncommon tokens of his presence and favour. We have reason to think that during the remainder of Josiah's reign, religion flourished.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, wherein this Passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem (compare, on the date, 2 Kings 22:3 and 2 Chronicles 35:19). The eighteenth year of Josiah corresponded probably, in part to B.C. 622, in part to B.C. 621.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. This shows that Josiah must begin the reformation very early that year, since he did all that is before recorded in this and the preceding chapter by the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the passover was kept, which month answers to part of our March and part of April, see 2 Kings 22:3 and was the same year the repairs of the temple were finished.

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Josiah Restores the Passover
21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. 22Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem. …

2 Kings 23:22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.
2 Kings 23:24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.