2 Chronicles 30:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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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: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • Exod 12:6 : 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
  • Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
  • 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 Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

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  • 2 Chr 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

    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.

    16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

    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."

  • 2 Chr 30:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    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 29:34
    75%

    34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the 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%

    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 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

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

    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.

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

    13 For because you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance."

    14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1 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%

    11 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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

    15 They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

    16 The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

    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 Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    14 Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the 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%

    6 But 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%

    6 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

    7 Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    69%

    5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter." However the Levites didn't do it right away.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    69%

    9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2 The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

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

  • Ezra 2:62-63
    2 verses
    69%

    62 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

    63 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    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.

  • Neh 7:64-65
    2 verses
    68%

    64 These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

    65 The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    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.

  • Num 9:13
    68%

    13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.