Add parallel Print Page Options

so they published a decree that was circulated throughout Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan that they are to come celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem. The Passover[a] had not been celebrated in great numbers as was being prescribed by the decree.[b]

Couriers were sent throughout all of Israel and Judah with letters written by the king and his princes, just as the king had commanded:

“Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by[c] the kings of Assyria. Don’t be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren’t faithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:5 Lit. Jerusalem, since they
  2. 2 Chronicles 30:5 The Heb. lacks by the decree
  3. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Lit. from the palm of