1. Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2. For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
3. For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
4. The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.