# 2 Chronicles 30

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/30

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to Yahweh's house in Jerusalem to observe the Passover to Yahweh, God of Israel.
2. The king consulted his leaders and the entire assembly in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in the second month.
3. For they could not carry it out at that time, because the priests had not consecrated themselves sufficiently nor had the people gathered to Jerusalem.
4. The matter seemed good to the king and to the entire assembly.
5. They established a decree to proclaim throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, a call to come keep the Passover to Yahweh, God of Israel, in Jerusalem, for they had not done it in large numbers as written.
6. The runners went with letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the king's command, saying, "Sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant left of you from the hand of the kings of Assyria."
7. Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who transgressed against Yahweh, God of their fathers, whom he delivered to desolation, as you see.
8. Now do not harden your necks like your fathers, but submit to Yahweh, enter his holy place which he has consecrated forever, serve Yahweh your God, and his burning anger will turn from you.
9. For if you return to Yahweh, your brothers and children will find compassion before their captors and return to this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
10. The runners went from one city to another through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but they derided them and mocked them.
11. However, some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12. God's hand was also on Judah to give them one heart to carry out the king's and the princes' command according to the word of Yahweh.
13. Many people—a very great assembly—gathered in Jerusalem to observe the feast of unleavened bread in the second month.
14. They arose and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they removed all the incense altars, and cast them into the Kidron brook.
15. They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth of the second month, and the priests and Levites were ashamed, consecrated themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.
16. They stood at their posts according to their custom, following the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites.
17. For many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites oversaw the slaughter of the Passovers for everyone unclean, to consecrate them to Yahweh.
18. For most of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover not as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May good Yahweh atone for
19. Whoever has set his heart to seek Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20. Yahweh heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
21. The Israelites present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised Yahweh day by day with mighty instruments to Yahweh.
22. Hezekiah encouraged all the discerning Levites who possessed good insight into Yahweh, and they ate during the seven days of the appointed feast, sacrificing peace offerings and confessing to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
23. The whole congregation took counsel to keep seven other days, and they kept seven days with joy.
24. For Hezekiah king of Judah supplied the assembly with a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, the leaders supplied the assembly with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep, and many priests consecrated themselves.
25. The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and the Levites, the full assembly that came from Israel, the sojourners who came from the land of Israel, and those dwelling in Judah.
26. There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, there had been nothing like it in Jerusalem.
27. The priests and the Levites stood up and blessed the people, their voice was heard, and their prayer reached his holy dwelling in heaven.

## Nearby chapters

[2 Chronicles 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/29.md)
[2 Chronicles 31](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-chronicles/31.md)

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