2Ki 23:21-23, 2Ch 30:5 | ESV | STEP | And the king commanded all the people , Keep the Passover to the Lord your God , as it is written in this Book of the Covenant .

bSee Ex. 12:3-11; Lev. 23:5, 8; Num. 9:2-4; Deut. 16:2-8

2 Kings 23:21-23

Josiah Restores the Passover

21 And the king commanded all the people, ^a“Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, ^bas it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” 22 ^cFor no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:5

5 So 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.