1. Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.
2. Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month—
3. but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem—
4. and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.
5. So they let the decree stand, to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.