8. Therefore, do not be stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
9. For if ye return unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find mercy before those 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.
10. So the posts passed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
11. Nevertheless, some men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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, according to the word of the Lord.
13. And many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
14. And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they also took away all the altars for incense and cast them into the brook Kidron.
15. Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month, and the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves with shame and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
16. And they put themselves in order according to the ordinance, according to the law of Moses, the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hands of the Levites.
17. For there were yet many in the congregation that were not sanctified; therefore, the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for each one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.