2 Chronicles 30 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Ḥ

² But the sovereign and his leaders and all the assembly in Yerushalayim had taken counsel to perform the Passover in the second month.

³ For they were unable to perform it at its time, because not enough priests had set themselves apart, and the people had not gathered at Yerushalayim.

⁴ And the matter was right in the eyes of the sovereign and in the eyes of all the assembly.

⁵ And they settled the matter, to send a call to all Yisra’ĕ

⁶ And the runners went to all Yisra’ĕ

⁷ “And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against יהוה  Elohim of their fathers, so that He gave them up to ruin, as you see.

⁸ “Now do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers, stretch forth the hand to יהוה, and come to His set-apart place, which He has set apart forever, and serve יהוה  your Elohim, so that His burning wrath turns away from you.

⁹ “For if you turn back to יהוה, your brothers and your children shall be shown compassion by their captors, even to return to this land. For יהוה  your Elohim shows favour and compassion, and does not turn His face from you if you turn back to Him.”

¹⁰ And the runners passed from city to city throughout the land of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, as far as Zeḇ

¹¹ Some from Ashĕ

¹² Also the hand of Elohim was on Yehuḏ

¹³ And many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Yerushalayim to perform the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

¹⁴ And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Yerushalayim, and they removed all the incense altars and threw them into the wadi Qiḏ

¹⁵ Then they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Lĕ

¹⁶ And they stood in their place according to their right-ruling. According to the Torah of Mosheh, the man of Elohim, the priests sprinkled the blood from the hand of the Lĕ

¹⁷ For many in the assembly had not set themselves apart. Therefore the Lĕ

¹⁸ For many of the people, many from Ephrayim and Menashsheh, Yissasḵ

¹⁹ who has prepared his heart to seek Elohim, יהוה  Elohim of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the cleansing of the set-apart place.”

²⁰ And יהוה  listened to Ḥ

²¹ And the children of Yisra’ĕ

²² And Ḥ

²³ And all the assembly took counsel to perform another seven days, and they performed it another seven days with joy.

²⁴ For Ḥ

²⁵ And all the assembly of Yehuḏ

²⁶ And there came to be great joy in Yerushalayim, for since the days of Shelomoh son of Dawiḏ

²⁷ And the priests, the Lĕ