2 Chronicles 30:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.
  • Exod 12:6 : 6 Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.
  • Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.
  • 2 Chr 29:17 : 17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.

    2 For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.

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

    13 So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.

    14 And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.

    15 Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.

    16 And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites.

    17 For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

    18 For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

    19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

  • 2 Chr 30:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people.

    5 So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    75%

    34 There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

  • Ezra 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    20 For the priests and the Levites had made themselves clean together; they were all clean: and they put the Passover lamb to death for all those who had come back, and for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

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

    16 So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

    17 And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

    18 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

    19 In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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

    21 And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

    22 Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

    23 In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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

    13 For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    71%

    11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30 And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

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

    15 And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

    16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.

    17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    14 And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6
    70%

    6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

  • Num 9:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

    7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    69%

    5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    69%

    9 Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2 And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

    1 And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

  • Ezra 2:62-63
    2 verses
    69%

    62 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

    63 And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    69%

    10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

    3 And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    24 For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.

  • Neh 7:64-65
    2 verses
    68%

    64 They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

    65 And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

  • Num 9:13
    68%

    13 But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.