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II Chronicles Chapter 30

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II Chronicles

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In this chapter the people mourn the loss of their priests and the fallen soldiers, and the king commands them to grieve deeply. The narrative emphasizes the solemnity of death and the importance of remembering the dead, while also showing the unity of the nation in their sorrow.

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(1) And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
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II Chronicles 11:13II Chronicles 11:16II Chronicles 30:10II Chronicles 30:11II Chronicles 25:7II Chronicles 35:6Hosea 5:4Hosea 7:8Hosea 7:9Hosea 11:8Deuteronomy 16:2Deuteronomy 16:3

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Genesis 48:20II Chronicles 30:18Isaiah 9:21Joshua 17:8Joshua 17:9Judges 12:4

(2) For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
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I Chronicles 13:1I Chronicles 13:2I Chronicles 13:3Proverbs 11:14Proverbs 15:22Ecclesiastes 4:13Numbers 9:10Numbers 9:11

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Esther 3:7Genesis 7:11Genesis 8:14Exodus 40:17Numbers 1:1Numbers 10:11

(3) For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
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Exodus 12:6Exodus 12:18II Chronicles 29:34

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(4) And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
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I Chronicles 13:4

(5) So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
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Ezra 6:8Ezra 6:9Ezra 6:10Ezra 6:11Ezra 6:12Esther 3:12Esther 3:13Esther 3:14Esther 3:15Esther 8:8Esther 8:9Esther 8:10

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Joshua 19:47I Samuel 3:20

(6) So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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Job 9:25Esther 8:14Jeremiah 51:31Isaiah 55:6Isaiah 55:7Jeremiah 4:1Lamentations 5:21Ezekiel 33:11Hosea 14:1Joel 2:12Joel 2:13Joel 2:14

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 44:14II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:14Genesis 32:9Leviticus 25:10

(7) And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
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Ezekiel 20:13Ezekiel 20:14Ezekiel 20:15Ezekiel 20:16Ezekiel 20:17Ezekiel 20:18Zechariah 1:3Zechariah 1:4II Chronicles 29:8

(8) Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
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II Chronicles 36:13Exodus 32:9Deuteronomy 10:16Romans 10:21I Chronicles 29:24Ezra 10:19Psalms 68:31Romans 6:13Romans 6:14Romans 6:15Romans 6:16Romans 6:17

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Romans 6:13Hebrews 4:3Deuteronomy 11:16Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28Isaiah 8:9

(9) For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
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II Chronicles 7:14Leviticus 26:40Leviticus 26:41Leviticus 26:42Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4I Kings 8:50Psalms 106:46Jeremiah 29:12Jeremiah 29:13Jeremiah 29:14

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Ezekiel 33:11Deuteronomy 30:3Song of Solomon 6:13Judges 4:18II Samuel 2:21Isaiah 30:21

(10) So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
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II Chronicles 30:6Esther 3:13Esther 3:15Esther 8:10Esther 8:14Job 9:25II Chronicles 36:16Genesis 19:14Nehemiah 2:19Job 12:4Luke 8:53Luke 16:14

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I Samuel 9:4II Samuel 15:23Judges 11:29Genesis 48:20Isaiah 9:21Hosea 10:11

(11) Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 30:18II Chronicles 30:21II Chronicles 11:16Acts 17:34II Chronicles 12:6II Chronicles 12:7II Chronicles 12:12II Chronicles 33:12II Chronicles 33:19II Chronicles 33:23II Chronicles 34:27Exodus 10:3

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Judges 6:35II Chronicles 33:23Judges 5:30

(12) Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
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II Chronicles 29:36I Chronicles 29:18I Chronicles 29:19Ezra 7:27Psalms 110:3Jeremiah 24:7Jeremiah 32:39Ezekiel 36:26Philippians 2:13II Thessalonians 2:13II Thessalonians 2:14Deuteronomy 4:2

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Psalms 68:27Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(13) And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
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Psalms 84:7

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Esther 3:7Exodus 34:18Exodus 12:18Exodus 23:15Leviticus 23:6I Kings 8:2

(14) And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
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II Chronicles 28:24II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:7II Kings 18:22II Kings 23:12II Kings 23:13Isaiah 2:18Isaiah 2:19Isaiah 2:20II Chronicles 15:16II Chronicles 29:16II Samuel 15:23

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II Kings 23:12Jeremiah 11:13II Kings 23:6II Kings 11:18II Chronicles 23:17Hosea 8:11

(15) Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
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II Chronicles 29:34Ezekiel 16:61Ezekiel 16:62Ezekiel 16:63Ezekiel 43:10Ezekiel 43:11II Chronicles 30:24II Chronicles 5:11II Chronicles 29:15II Chronicles 31:18Exodus 19:10Exodus 19:22

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Esther 3:7I Kings 8:64Ezra 3:8II Chronicles 35:1Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:17

(16) And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
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II Chronicles 35:10II Chronicles 35:15II Kings 11:14Deuteronomy 33:1II Chronicles 35:11Leviticus 1:5Hebrews 11:28

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II Chronicles 29:22I Chronicles 28:21Nehemiah 10:37Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(17) For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
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II Chronicles 29:34II Chronicles 35:3II Chronicles 35:4II Chronicles 35:5II Chronicles 35:6Exodus 12:6

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II Chronicles 29:34Nehemiah 12:47Ezekiel 48:11Numbers 1:53Numbers 8:26I Chronicles 23:32

(18) For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
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Numbers 9:10Numbers 9:11Numbers 9:12Numbers 9:13Numbers 9:14Numbers 19:20I Corinthians 11:28Exodus 12:43Exodus 12:44Exodus 12:45Exodus 12:46Exodus 12:47

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Genesis 48:20II Chronicles 30:1Isaiah 9:21Deuteronomy 33:18II Chronicles 30:10Joshua 17:8

(19) That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
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II Chronicles 19:3II Chronicles 20:33I Samuel 7:3I Chronicles 29:18Ezra 7:10Job 11:13Psalms 10:17Proverbs 23:26Leviticus 12:4Leviticus 15:31Leviticus 15:32Leviticus 15:33

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Jeremiah 4:30Ecclesiastes 8:17I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Zephaniah 2:3

(20) And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
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Exodus 15:26Psalms 103:3James 5:15James 5:16

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II Kings 20:13

(21) And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
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Exodus 12:15Exodus 13:6Leviticus 23:6Luke 22:1Luke 22:7I Corinthians 5:7I Corinthians 5:8II Chronicles 30:26II Chronicles 7:10Deuteronomy 12:7Deuteronomy 12:12Deuteronomy 16:14

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Deuteronomy 16:16II Chronicles 8:13II Chronicles 35:17II Chronicles 35:18Exodus 23:15Exodus 34:18

(22) And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
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II Chronicles 32:6Isaiah 40:1Isaiah 40:2Hosea 2:14II Chronicles 15:3II Chronicles 17:9II Chronicles 35:3Deuteronomy 33:10Ezra 7:10Ezra 7:25Nehemiah 8:7Nehemiah 8:8

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 31:2II Chronicles 7:7II Chronicles 29:31Ezekiel 45:17

(23) And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
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II Chronicles 7:9I Kings 8:65

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II Samuel 17:14

(24) For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
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II Chronicles 35:7II Chronicles 35:8I Chronicles 29:3I Chronicles 29:4I Chronicles 29:5I Chronicles 29:6I Chronicles 29:7I Chronicles 29:8I Chronicles 29:9Ezekiel 45:17Ephesians 4:8II Chronicles 29:34

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Exodus 22:1John 10:12Nehemiah 3:1I Samuel 25:2Ezekiel 34:12John 10:3

(25) And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
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II Chronicles 30:11II Chronicles 30:18Exodus 12:43Exodus 12:44Exodus 12:45Exodus 12:46Exodus 12:47Exodus 12:48Exodus 12:49I Chronicles 16:10I Chronicles 16:11Psalms 92:4

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Nehemiah 11:3Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38Nehemiah 12:44

(26) So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 7:9II Chronicles 7:10

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Isaiah 9:3I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(27) Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
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Numbers 6:23Numbers 6:24Numbers 6:25Numbers 6:26Deuteronomy 10:8I Kings 8:30I Kings 8:39Acts 10:4Deuteronomy 26:15Psalms 68:5Isaiah 57:15Isaiah 63:15

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Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

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