2 Chronicles 30:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Num 9:10-11 : 10 "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh. 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
  • 1 Chr 13:1-3 : 1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. 2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us; 3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For we didn't seek it in the days of Saul."
  • 2 Chr 30:13 : 13 Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
  • 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 burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
  • Prov 11:14 : 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
  • Eccl 4:13 : 13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

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  • 2 Chr 30:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

    4 The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

    5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.

  • 2 Chr 30:1
    79%

    1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.

    13 Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

    14 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.

    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 burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.

  • Ezra 6:19-20
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    76%

    19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

    20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    76%

    1 Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21 The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."

    22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

    23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 45:21
    74%

    21 In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

  • 2 Chr 35:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

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

    18 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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

  • Num 28:16-17
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    73%

    16 "'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's Passover.

    17 On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

  • 2 Chr 30:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

    18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

    19 who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren't clean according to the purification of the sanctuary."

  • Num 9:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2 "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

    3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season--according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."

    4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.

    5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

  • Num 9:11
    71%

    11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

  • Lev 23:5
    71%

    5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    71%

    3 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

    2 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.

  • Deut 16:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

    2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

  • 2 Chr 34:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

    30 The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both 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 Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 30:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.

    24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

  • 2 Chr 15:10
    69%

    10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
    68%

    6 Kill the Passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of Yahweh by Moses."

  • Exod 12:2
    68%

    2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    68%

    10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

  • Luke 22:1
    68%

    1 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

  • Luke 22:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

    8 He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."

  • John 2:13
    67%

    13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 10:9
    67%

    9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

  • Exod 12:21
    67%

    21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.