Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1001
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
were pleased at what GOD had pro- vided for the People, for the affair was unexpected. §egzkiub inhilze all 3sruel in ¤ Kazial §zsiilml in ®¤h. 30 Hezekiah next sent to all Israel and judea, and wrote a letter to Ephraim and Manasseh, to invite them to the House of the EvER· LIVING at jerusalem, to make a Pass— over to the Evex-1.1vmG Goo of Israel. For the King, and his Nobles, and all the Parliament at jerusalem had decided to make a Passover in the Second Month, because they were not able to make it at its proper period, for the Priests were not consecrated in suiiicient numbers, and the People had not collected to jerusalem. So the thing was right in the opinion of the King, and in the opinion of all the Parliament. Consequently they hxed by a Decree to send abroad a proclamation to all Israel from Barsheba to Dan, for them to come to make a Passover to the EvER—L1v1NG GOD of Israel at }erusalem,~——for not many made it according to the Scriptures. Runners were therefore sent with letters from the hand of the King and the nobles of all Israel and judea, as the King had commanded, to say to the Children of Israel: ‘ Return to the Even-Lxvmo Gon
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, and He will return to the fugitive remnant of you from the hand of the Kings of Ashur;—and be not like your ancestors, and your country- men who have risen against the Evn1z·L1v1NG Gon of your fathers, Who delivered them from the wasting you now see. Do not now stiffen yourselves, like your fathers! · Give your hand to GOD! Come and make yourselves holy, as He is Holy for Ever, and serve your EvER·L1VING GOD, when He will turn His indig- nant anger from you. For when you 9 turn to the EVER-LIVING, your brothers and children will Gnd com- passion before those who captured them, and will be returned to this land; for your Evnn—r.1v1No Gon is gentle and merciful, and will not turn away from you,—if you return to Him} (726 B-c.) §z;zki¤l;’s Qppzal ilihirztlzh. So the Runners went from City to
City in the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulon, but they were a subject of scorn and laughter for them. Except that some persons from Manasseh and Zebulon obeyed, and came to jerusalem. In judea, however, the hand of the E.vER—L1v1NG was given to them, with one heart to act upon the order of the King and nobles in the aHair of the EvER—L1ViNG. Consequently a great many people collected at jerusalem to keep the Feast of Un- fermented Bread in the Second Month. A very great crowd, who rose up and overturned the pagan Altars which were· in jerusalem, and overthrow all the Incense-Altars and flung them into the Kidron brook, and slew the Passover on the four- teenth of the Second Month. Then the Priests and the Levites became ashamed, and consecrated them— selves, and brought Burnt-offerings to the House of the EvER—L1v1Nc, and stood at their duty as Decreed in the Laws of Moses the MAN of GOD,~——the Priests sprinkling the blood from the hand of the Levites. For there were many in the Parlia·
ment who had not consecrated themselves, therefore the Levites conducted the Killing of the Pass- overs, for all who were clean for the Sanctuary of the LORD ;»···—Because of the crowds of people; the crowds from Ephraim, and Manasseh, and Issakar, and Zebulon, who had purified themselves.-——'1`hus they ate the Passover, but not according to the Records. But Hezekiah prayed O EVER- LIVING, be kind, and expiate for it to every one whose heart is settled to seek for GoD,—the Evan-L1v1NG to II I2 16 18
