All Israel Invited to the Passover

30 Now Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem to [a]celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:1 Lit do, and so throughout the ch

(A)The [a]couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “Sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from (B)the [b]hand of the kings of Assyria.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Lit runners
  2. 2 Chronicles 30:6 Lit palm

The Feast of Purim Instituted

20 Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

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25 “This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have sent (A)letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to (B)the priest Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying,

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29 Now (A)Zephaniah the priest read this letter [a]to Jeremiah the prophet.

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  1. Jeremiah 29:29 Lit in the ears of

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