2 Kings 23:23

New American Bible - revised edition

until the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this Passover of the Lord was kept in Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Kings 22:3

In his eighteenth year, King Josiah sent the scribe Shaphan, son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the house of the Lord with these orders:

2 Kings 23:22

No Passover such as this had been observed during the period when the judges ruled Israel, or during the entire period of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,

2 Kings 23:24

Further, Josiah purged the consultation of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:7

You shall cook and eat it at the place the Lord, your God, will choose; then in the morning you may return to your tents.