2 Chronicles 30:3

New International Reader's Version

They hadn’t been able to celebrate it at the regular time. That’s because there weren’t enough priests who had set themselves apart to the Lord. Also, the people hadn’t gathered together in Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:17

On the first day of the first month they began to set everything in the temple apart to the Lord. By the eighth day of the month they reached the Lord’s porch. For eight more days they set the Lord’s temple itself apart to him. They finished on the 16th day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 29:34

But there weren’t enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings. So their relatives, the Levites, helped them. They worked until the task was finished. By that time other priests had been set apart to the Lord. The Levites had been more careful than the priests when they set themselves apart.

2 Chronicles 30:15

They killed the Passover lamb on the 14th day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed of how they had lived. They set themselves apart to the Lord. They brought burnt offerings to his temple.

2 Chronicles 30:24

Hezekiah, the king of Judah, provided 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep and goats for the community. The officials provided 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep and goats for them. A large number of priests set themselves apart to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:4

The plan seemed good to the king and the whole community.

2 Chronicles 35:6

Kill the Passover lambs. Set yourselves apart to the Lord. Prepare the lambs for your people. Do what the Lord commanded through Moses.”

Exodus 12:18

In the first month eat bread made without yeast. Eat it from the evening of the 14th day until the evening of the 21st day.

Exodus 12:6

Take care of them until the 14th day of the month. Then the whole community of Israel must kill them when the sun goes down.