13. And many people assembled in Jerusalem to have the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. There was a very large assembly.
14. They went out and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
15. They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought in burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
16. They stood at their places according to the Law of Moses, the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood they received from the hands of the Levites.
17. For there were many in the assembly who had consecrated themselves, so the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for those who were not clean in order to consecrate the people to the Lord.
18. For a multitude of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves. For they ate of the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed over them saying, “The Lord is good, and may He pardon
19. everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, but is not pure according the rules of the holy sanctuary.”
20. So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
21. Then the sons of Israel present in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the Lord every day, singing with loud instruments to the Lord.
22. Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.
23. Then the whole assembly counseled to have the feast for another seven days, so they had seven more days of gladness.
24. For Hezekiah king of Judah lifted up for the assembly one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. And the officials offered up for the assembly one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And a multitude of priests consecrated themselves.
25. So all the assembly of Judah and the priests and Levites and all the assembly who came from Israel rejoiced, even the sojourners who came from the land of Israel and those who resided in Judah.
26. And there was a great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there had not been anything like this.
27. Then the priests and Levites went out and blessed the people, and their voices were heard. And their prayers came up to His holy habitation in the heavens.