14:030:009 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.
14:030:010 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.
14:030:011 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh
and of Zebulun
humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
14:030:012 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.
14:030:013 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast
of
unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
14:030:014 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.
14:030:015 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.
14:030:016 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.
14:030:017 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.
14:030:018 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
14:030:019 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.
14:030:020 And the lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
14:030:021 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.


