2 Kings 23:22 Cross References - MSTC

²² For there was no passover held like that from the days of the judges that judged Israel, and throughout all the days of the kings of Israel and of Judah.

¹ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and thereto wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to offer Passover unto the LORD God of Israel. ² And the king held a counsel with his lords and all the congregation at Jerusalem to keep the feast of Passover in the second month. ³ For they could not keep it at that time: for there were not priests enough sanctified, neither was the people gathered together to Jerusalem.

¹³ And so there assembled to Jerusalem much people and a mighty great congregation, to hold the feast of sweet bread in the second month. ¹⁴ And they arose and put away the altars that were in Jerusalem. And thereto all the incense they did away and cast them into the brook Kidron. ¹⁵ And they slew Passover the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and Levites sanctified themselves for shame, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. ¹⁶ And they stood in their standing after their manner according to the law of Moses, the man of God. And the priests sprinkled the blood, receiving it of the hands of the Levites. ¹⁷ And because there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: and therefore did the Levites slay Passover for all that were not clean to sanctify them to the LORD. ¹⁸ There was very much people out of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun that were not clean, and therefore did eat Passover otherwise than writing specifieth. But Hezekiah prayed for them, and said, ¹⁹ "The good LORD be merciful to all that set their hearts to seek the God that is the LORD God of their fathers, though they do it not according to the cleanness of the holy place." ²⁰ And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

³ And he said to the Levites that taught throughout all Israel and were sanctified unto the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; ye need not to bear it upon your shoulders. Wherefore now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel. ⁴ And prepare yourselves by your ancient households and companies, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and the writing of Solomon his son. ⁵ And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the ancient households of your brethren the children of the people, and after the division of the ancient households of the Levites, ⁶ and kill Passover; sanctify and prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." ⁷ And Josiah gave to the common people in lambs and kids, for Passover offerings only, unto all that were present thirty thousand by tally, and three thousand oxen; even of the king's substance. ⁸ And his lords gave willingly both unto the people and also unto the priests and unto the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred lambs and kids, and three hundred oxen. ⁹ And Conaniah with Shemaiah and Nethanel his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, lords of the Levites, gave unto the Levites five thousand Passover offerings, and five hundred oxen. ¹⁰ And so the service went forward: and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their companies at the king's commandment. ¹¹ And they slew Passover: and the priests sprinkled the blood, receiving it of the Levites, and the Levites stripped the beasts. ¹² And they fetched away the burnt offerings, to give them unto the common people as they were divided by ancient houses, for to offer unto the LORD; like as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen too. ¹³ And they dressed the Passover with fire as the manner was. But the other hallowed, dedicated beasts they sod in pots, cauldrons and pans and divided them quickly among all the common people. ¹⁴ And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests and for the children of Aaron, which were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night. And therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron. ¹⁵ And the singers the children of Asaph stood in their standing according to the commandment of David and Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun the king's seer of visions: and the porters waited at every gate, and might not depart from their service. But their brethren the Levites prepared for them. ¹⁶ And so all the service of the LORD went forward the said day, in offering Passover of burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah. ¹⁷ And so the children of Israel that could be found, offered Passover the same time and kept the feast of sweet bread seven days. ¹⁸ And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel, from the time of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of the kings of Israel hold such a Passover feast as did Josiah and the priests and Levites and all Judah, and as much of Israel as could be had, and the inhabiters of Jerusalem. ¹⁹ And this Passover was holden in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.