2 Chronicles 30:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves.(The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)
  • 2 Chr 35:3-6 : 3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the LORD,“Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel! 4 Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed in writing by King David of Israel and his son Solomon. 5 Stand in the sanctuary and, together with the Levites, represent the family divisions of your countrymen. 6 Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to celebrate according to the LORD’s message which came through Moses.”
  • Exod 12:6 : 6 You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 30:18-19
    2 verses
    83%

    18The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying:“May the LORD, who is good, forgive

    19everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

  • Ezra 6:20
    79%

    20The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves.

  • 2 Chr 30:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Hezekiah Observes the Passover Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem and observe a Passover celebration for the LORD God of Israel.

    2The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.

    3They were unable to observe it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 30:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the LORD’s temple.

    16They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
    76%

    6Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to celebrate according to the LORD’s message which came through Moses.”

  • Num 9:6-7
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    76%

    6It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

    7And those men said to him,“We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    76%

    34But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves.(The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)

  • Num 9:13
    75%

    13But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the LORD’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

  • 2 Chr 35:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10Preparations were made, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.

    11They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.

    12They reserved the burnt offerings and the cattle for the family divisions of the people to present to the LORD, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses.

    13They cooked the Passover sacrifices over the open fire as prescribed and cooked the consecrated offerings in pots, kettles, and pans. They quickly served them to all the people.

    14Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

  • Num 8:6-7
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    74%

    6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

    7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

  • Num 8:15
    73%

    15“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    73%

    14The priests and Levites consecrated themselves so they could bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • Lev 15:31
    73%

    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Num 8:20-21
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    73%

    20So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

    21The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothing; then Aaron presented them like a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

  • Josh 22:17
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    17The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the LORD.

  • Lev 10:17
    72%

    17“Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement on their behalf before the LORD.

  • Num 9:10
    72%

    10“Tell the Israelites,‘If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the LORD.

  • Num 19:20
    72%

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    72%

    5He said to them:“Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the LORD’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the LORD.

    16The priests then entered the LORD’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the LORD’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.

  • 2 Chr 35:17
    71%

    17So the Israelites who were present observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    71%

    11The priests left the holy place. All the priests who participated had consecrated themselves, no matter which division they represented.

  • Lev 16:17
    71%

    17Nobody is to be in the Meeting Tent when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he goes out, and he has made atonement on his behalf, on behalf of his household, and on behalf of the whole assembly of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    71%

    24King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for the assembly, while the officials supplied them with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.

  • 2 Chr 30:5
    71%

    5So they sent an edict throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people to come and observe a Passover for the LORD God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.

  • Lev 17:3
    71%

    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    71%

    18and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

  • 1 Chr 23:28
    71%

    28Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the LORD’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple.

  • Lev 14:19
    70%

    19“The priest must then perform the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he is to slaughter the burnt offering,

  • Exod 30:20
    70%

    20When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,

  • Num 28:16
    70%

    16Passover and Unleavened Bread“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

  • Heb 9:13
    70%

    13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

  • Exod 12:21
    70%

    21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them,“Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

  • Lev 22:16
    70%

    16and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

  • Luke 22:7
    70%

    7The Passover Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

  • Neh 13:30
    70%

    30So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

  • Lev 17:16
    70%

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”