2 Kings 23:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s rule, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.

2 Kings 23:23 Cross References

2 Kings 22:3

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying,

2 Kings 23:22

For no such passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah;

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover Josiah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:7

And you shall boil it and eat it at the place which the Lord your God will choose; and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.