And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
Israel
2 Chronicles 11:13,16 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted …
Ephraim
2 Chronicles 30:10,11 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim …
2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army …
2 Chronicles 35:6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brothers…
Hosea 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit …
Hosea 7:8,9 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned…
Hosea 11:8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? …
to the house
Deuteronomy 16:2-6 You shall therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, …
to keep
Exodus 12:3-20 Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth …
1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as …
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
established
Ezra 6:8-12 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to the elders of these …
Esther 3:12-15 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
Esther 8:8-10 Write you also for the Jews, as it likes you, in the king's name, …
Esther 9:20,21 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews …
Daniel 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it …
to make proclamation
2 Chronicles 24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem…
2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the …
Leviticus 23:2,4 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the …
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that …
from Beer-sheba
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was …
for they
2 Chronicles 35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days …
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not …
1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and …
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
the posts went. Ratzim, `runners,' or couriers, of the same kind as the running footmen, who were formerly, before the establishment of posts, and still are in some places, trained, and kept on purpose to convey dispatches speedily by running.
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Esther 8:14 So the posts that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened …
Jeremiah 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, …
the king [heb] the hand of the king
turn again
Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…
Jeremiah 4:1 If you will return, O Israel, said the LORD, return to me: and if …
Lamentations 5:21 Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in …
Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
Joel 2:12-14 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your …
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …
and he will
Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be …
escaped
2 Chronicles 28:20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, …
2 Kings 15:19,29 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave …
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, …
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we …
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
be ye not stiffnecked. [heb] harden not your necks
2 Chronicles 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him …
Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, …
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
Romans 10:21 But to Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hands …
yield yourselves [heb] give the hand
1 Chronicles 29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise …
Ezra 10:19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and …
Psalm 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out …
Romans 6:13-19 Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness …
enter into
Psalm 63:2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
Psalm 68:24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my …
Psalm 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
which he hath
Psalm 132:13,14 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation…
serve
Deuteronomy 6:13,17 You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name…
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day …
Matthew 4:10 Then said Jesus to him, Get you hence, Satan: for it is written, …
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall …
Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you …
Colossians 3:22-24 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; …
Revelation 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and …
the fierceness
2 Chronicles 28:11,13 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which you …
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, …
2 Kings 23:26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great …
Psalm 78:49 He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, …
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
if ye turn
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, …
Leviticus 26:40-42 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, …
Deuteronomy 30:2-4 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according …
1 Kings 8:50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their …
Psalm 106:46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
so that they shall
Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …
Jeremiah 31:27,28 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will sow the house of …
the Lord
Exodus 34:6,7 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The …
Nehemiah 9:17,31 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you …
Psalm 86:5,15 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …
Psalm 111:4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious …
Psalm 145:7,8 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and …
Jonah 4:2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not …
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
will not
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: …
Ezekiel 18:30-32 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according …
turn away
Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will …
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
the posts
2 Chronicles 30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes …
Esther 3:13,15 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …
Esther 8:10,14 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the …
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
they laughed
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …
Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his …
Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
Job 12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers …
Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: …
Luke 22:63,64 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him…
Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided …
Acts 17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: …
Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover …
Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
divers of Asher It has been said, that Hezekiah had no right to invite Hoshea's subjects to repair to Jerusalem to his passover; but it may be presumed, that he was encouraged to do this by Hoshea himself, who was one of their best kings; besides which, both the golden calves having been taken away by the Assyrians, the apostate Israelites, being thus deprived of idols, had begun to return to the Lord, and to go up to Jerusalem to worship, some time before Hezekiah gave them this invitation
2 Chronicles 30:18,21 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, …
2 Chronicles 11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their …
Acts 17:34 However, certain men joined to him, and believed: among the which …
humbled themselves
2 Chronicles 12:6,7,12 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; …
2 Chronicles 33:12,19,23 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …
2 Chronicles 34:27 Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before …
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them …
Daniel 5:22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though …
Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than …
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he …
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
the hand of God
2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared …
1 Chronicles 29:18,19 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing …
Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties …
Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and …
Jeremiah 32:39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me …
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within …
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved …
the commandment
Deuteronomy 4:2,5,6 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall …
1 Thessalonians 4:2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
by the word
2 Chronicles 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right …
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
altars
2 Chronicles 28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut …
2 Chronicles 34:4,7 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the …
2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, …
2 Kings 23:12,13 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, …
Isaiah 2:18-20 And the idols he shall utterly abolish…
the brook
2 Chronicles 15:16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed …
2 Chronicles 29:16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, …
2 Samuel 15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed …
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples …
Cedron
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
were ashamed
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the …
Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall …
Ezekiel 43:10,11 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they …
and sanctified
2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand …
2 Chronicles 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: …
2 Chronicles 29:15,34 And they gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and …
2 Chronicles 31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their …
Exodus 19:10,22 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to …
And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
they stood
2 Chronicles 35:10,15 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, …
place [heb] standing
after their manner
2 Kings 11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner …
Moses
Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed …
the priests
2 Chronicles 35:10,11 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, …
Leviticus 1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's …
Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, …
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
many of Ephraim
2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled …
had not cleansed
Numbers 9:10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of …
Numbers 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, …
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, …
the passover
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the …
prayed
Genesis 20:7,17 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and …
Job 42:8,9 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to …
James 5:15,16 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise …
1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not to death, he shall …
The good
2 Chronicles 6:21 Listen therefore to the supplications of your servant, and of your …
Exodus 34:6-9 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The …
Numbers 14:18-20 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity …
Psalm 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Psalm 36:5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches …
Psalm 86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …
Psalm 119:68 You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.
Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and do; defer not…
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
prepareth
2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have …
2 Chronicles 20:33 However, the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people …
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return …
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and …
Job 11:13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
Psalm 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their …
Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
though he be not
Leviticus 12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and …
Leviticus 15:31-33 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; …
Leviticus 21:17-23 Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever he be of your seed in their generations …
Leviticus 22:3-6 Say to them, Whoever he be of all your seed among your generations, …
Numbers 9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of …
Numbers 19:13-20 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies …
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
present [heb] found
the feast
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you …
Exodus 13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day …
Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened …
Luke 22:1,7 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover…
1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as …
great gladness
2 Chronicles 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon …
2 Chronicles 7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the …
Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice …
Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your …
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, …
Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking …
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
the priests
2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers to …
2 Chronicles 29:25-27 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …
loud instruments [heb] instruments of strength
Psalm 150:3-5 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery …
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
comfortably unto all [heb] to the heart of all
2 Chronicles 32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together …
Isaiah 40:1,2 Comfort you, comfort you my people, said your God…
Hosea 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, …
taught
2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without …
2 Chronicles 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD …
2 Chronicles 35:3 And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy to the LORD…
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …
Ezra 7:10,25 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and …
Nehemiah 8:7,8,18 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah…
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law …
2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, …
the good
Proverbs 2:6,7 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding…
Proverbs 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my …
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined …
Philippians 3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency …
and making
Deuteronomy 26:3-11 And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say …
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and …
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law …
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
took counsel
2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation …
to keep They did not observe other seven days of unleavened bread, but offered sacrifices with praise and thanksgiving, and feasting, other seven days; and, as the people in general, and especially those who came out of the kingdom of Israel, would be unprepared for this additional expense, both Hezekiah and his princes liberally supplied them with cattle for sacrifices.
2 Chronicles 7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept …
1 Kings 8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a …
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
did give [heb] lifted up, or offered.
2 Chronicles 35:7,8 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all …
1 Chronicles 29:3-9 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, …
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat …
Ephesians 4:8 Why he said, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, …
a great
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the …
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
the priests
Numbers 6:23-26 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless …
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark …
their prayer
1 Kings 8:30,39 And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people …
Acts 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? …
his holy dwelling place [heb] the habitation oh his holiness
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your …
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in …
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness …
Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …
