Josiah Restores the Passover

2 Kings 23

21 And the king commanded all the people, k "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, l as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." 22 m For 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.

24 Moreover, Josiah put away n the mediums and the necromancers and o the household gods and p the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish q the words of the law that were written in the book r that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. 25 s Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.

26 Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, t because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. 27 And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, u as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, v and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 35:1 - 17
    Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 12:3 - 11
    Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
    Leviticus 23:5
    In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
    Leviticus 23:8
    But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
    Numbers 9:2 - 4
    Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
    Deuteronomy 16:2 - 8
    And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 35:18 - 19
    No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:6
    And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 31:19
    Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
    2 Kings 21:21
    He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
    Leviticus 20:27
    "A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them."
    Deuteronomy 18:11
    Or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead.
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:8
    And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
  9. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:5
    He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
  10. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
    2 Kings 24:3 - 4
    Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.
    Jeremiah 15:4
    And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
  11. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:18
    Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.
    2 Kings 17:20
    And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
    2 Kings 18:11
    The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    2 Kings 21:13
    And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  12. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:4
    And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name.
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