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2 Chronicles 30:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

so they affirmed the proposal and spread the message throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan,  to come to observe the Passover of the Lord, the God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they hadn’t observed it often,  as prescribed.

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All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba  and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah.


Now I praise you  because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions  just as I delivered  them to you.


Therefore, Your Majesty, establish the edict  and sign the document so that, as a law of the Medes and Persians, it is irrevocable and cannot be changed.’


In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia,  in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken through  Jeremiah,  the Lord roused the spirit of King Cyrus  of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and also to put it in writing:


No Passover had been observed  like it in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present in Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


Then a proclamation  was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that the tax God’s servant Moses imposed on Israel in the wilderness be brought to the Lord.


Be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.


‘These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.


‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are my appointed times,  the times of the Lord that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.


Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.


The proposal pleased the king and the congregation,





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