2 Chronicles 30:2

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

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  • Num 9:10-11 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
  • 1 Chr 13:1-3 : 1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. 2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: 3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.
  • 2 Chr 30:13 : 13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
  • 2 Chr 30:15 : 15 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.
  • Prov 11:14 : 14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.
  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.
  • Eccl 4:13 : 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

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  • 2 Chr 30:3-5
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    3For 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.

    4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

    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 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 30:1
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 30:12-15
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    12Also 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.

    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.

  • Ezra 6:19-20
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    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 35:1
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    1Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21-23
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    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.

  • Ezek 45:21
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    21In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

  • 2 Chr 35:16-19
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    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.

  • Num 28:16-17
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    16And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

    17And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

  • 2 Chr 30:17-19
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    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.

  • Num 9:2-5
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    2Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

    3In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

    4And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

    5And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

  • Num 9:11
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    11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

  • Lev 23:5
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    5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
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    3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1-2
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    1And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

    2And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

  • Deut 16:1-2
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    1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

    2Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

  • 2 Chr 34:29-30
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    29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

    30And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 30:23-24
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    23And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 15:10
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    10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
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    6So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

  • Exod 12:2
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    2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
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    10So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

  • Luke 22:1
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    1Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

  • Luke 22:7-8
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    7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

    8And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.

  • John 2:13
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    13And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

  • 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.

  • Exod 12:21
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    21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.