2 Chronicles 30:3

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

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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.)
  • 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.
  • Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
  • 2 Chr 29:17 : 17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the LORD’s temple. For eight more days they consecrated the LORD’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

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  • 2 Chr 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

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

    13A huge crowd assembled in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

    14They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

    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.

    17Because 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.

    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.”

  • 2 Chr 30:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    75%

    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.)

  • Ezra 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    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 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16So all the preparations for the LORD’s service were made that day, as the Passover was observed and the burnt sacrifices were offered on the altar of the LORD, as prescribed by King Josiah.

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

    18A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem.

    19This Passover was observed in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

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

    21The king ordered all the people,“Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”

    22He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges who led Israel; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.

    23But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem.

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

    13The first time you did not carry it; that is why the LORD God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.”

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

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1The Altar is Rebuilt When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their towns, the people assembled in Jerusalem.

  • 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.

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

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

    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.

    17On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the LORD’s temple. For eight more days they consecrated the LORD’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6
    70%

    6By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

  • Num 9:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    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 24:5
    69%

    5He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them,“Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    69%

    9(Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. They defiled the LORD’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

    1Josiah Observes the Passover Josiah observed a Passover festival for the LORD in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

  • Ezra 2:62-63
    2 verses
    69%

    62They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.

    63The governor instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

    3All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    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.

  • Neh 7:64-65
    2 verses
    68%

    64They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but none were found. They were therefore excluded from the priesthood.

    65The governor instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    9All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days.(It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

  • Num 9:13
    68%

    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 31:4
    68%

    4He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

    2Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.