2 Chronicles 30:2
New Revised Standard Version
For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the passover in the second month

New American Bible
The king, his princes, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to celebrate the Passover during the second month.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

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For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

the king

2 Chronicles 13:1-3 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda. . . .

Proverbs 11:14 He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

14th of which month was the proper time. But Hezekiah and his counsellors justly concluded, that the regulation of the

14th day of the second month, which had been made for individuals who were hindered from eating the passover at the appointed season, might in their present circumstances be extended to the people at large.

Numbers 9:10,11 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord. . . .

Context
Hezekiah Proclaims a Passover
1And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, 2For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.3For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered together to Jerusalem.…
Cross References
Numbers 9:10
Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord.

Numbers 9:11
In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:

2 Chronicles 30:1
And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,

2 Chronicles 30:13
And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:

2 Chronicles 30:15
And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:1
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