2 Chronicles 30:3

American Standard Version (1901)

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • Exod 12:6 : 6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.
  • Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
  • 2 Chr 29:17 : 17 Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

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  • 2 Chr 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

    2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

  • 2 Chr 30:13-19
    7 verses
    78%

    13And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

    14And 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.

    15Then 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 burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.

    16And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

    17For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

    18For 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 is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon every one

    19that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • 2 Chr 30:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4And the 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 even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it [ in great numbers in such sort as it is written.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    75%

    34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Ezra 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

    20For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

  • 2 Chr 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

    17And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

    18And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

    22Surely there was not kept 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 was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 15:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13For because ye [bare it] not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

    14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    71%

    11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.

    16And the priests went in unto the inner part of the house of Jehovah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Jehovah into the court of the house of Jehovah. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

    17Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    14And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6
    70%

    6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • Num 9:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

    7and those men said unto him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    69%

    5And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    69%

    9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah, because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

    1And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

  • Ezra 2:62-63
    2 verses
    69%

    62These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

    63And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    69%

    10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

    3And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    24For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

  • Neh 7:64-65
    2 verses
    68%

    64These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

    65And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

  • Num 9:13
    68%

    13But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

    2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.