2 Chronicles 30:1-11

Passover Celebrated

1Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. 2For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover ain the second month 3for they could not keep it bat that time cbecause the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem 4and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly. 5So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, dfrom Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed. 6 eSo couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, freturn to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of gthe kings of Assyria. 7 hDo not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 8 iDo not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, jthat his fierce anger may turn away from you. 9For kif you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children lwill find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For mthe Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, nif you return to him.”

10 oSo the couriers went from city to city through the country of pEphraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but qthey laughed them to scorn and mocked them. 11However, rsome men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Psalms 81:11

11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel swould not submit to me.

Hosea 7:16

16They treturn, but not upward;
Or to the Most High

they are vlike a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of wthe insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision xin the land of Egypt.

Hosea 11:2

2 yThe more they were called,
the more they went away;
zthey kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

Amos 5:4-6

4For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

aaSeek me and live;
5but do not seek abBethel,
and do not enter into acGilgal
or cross over to adBeersheba;
for aeGilgal shall surely go into exile,
and afBethel shall come to nothing.”
6 agSeek the Lord and live,
ahlest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for aiBethel,

Amos 5:14-15

14 ajSeek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the Lord, akthe God of hosts, will be with you,
as you have said.
15 alHate evil, and love good,
and establish justice amin the gate;
anit may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
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