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2 Kings 23:21

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
2 Kings 23:21 · King James Version

In other versions

  • And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

    ASV

  • And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

    BBE

  • And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

    DBY

  • The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

    WEB

  • And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying, `Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on this book of the covenant.'

    YLT

  • And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

    ENG

  • And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

    WBT

  • The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

    BSB

In context

19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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