2 Chronicles 30:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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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 other 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 up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
  • 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 the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in 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 the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

    2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation 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 congregation.

    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 in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

    16And 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.

    17For 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.

    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 was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

    19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD 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 pleased the king and all the congregation.

    5So 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.

  • 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 other 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 were purified together, all of them were pure, and 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 the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, 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 all 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 the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

    22Surely there was not holden 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 holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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

    13For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

    14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD 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 were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and 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 came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

    16And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into 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 the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    14And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of 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 defiled by the dead body of a man, 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 defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his 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 the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

    1Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD 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, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

    63And the Tirshatha 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 in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

    3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    24For 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.

  • 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, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

    65And the Tirshatha 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
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    9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of 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 in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his 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 be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.