2 Chronicles 30:1
And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel.
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Exodus 12:3Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.
2 Kings 23:22Now there was no such a phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,
2 Chronicles 11:16Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to sacrifice their victims be- fore the Lord the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 29:24And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 35:6And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
Hosea 7:8Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 30:1
In this chapter we have an account of the solemn passover which Hezekiah kept in the first year of his reign. I. The consultation about it, and the resolution he and his people came to for the observance of it, ver. 2-5 . II. The invitation he sent to Judah and Israel to come and keep it, ver. 1 , 6-12 . III. The joyful celebration of it, ver. 13-27 . By this the reformation, set on foot in the foregoing chapter, was greatly advanced and established, and that nail in God's holy place clenched. Read the whole commentary →