Discovery Box2 Chronicles 30:11-18 
Context30:11 But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. 30:12 In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict the king and the officers had issued at the Lord’s command. 1 30:13 A huge crowd assembled in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. 2 30:14 They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley. 3
30:15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple. 30:16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 4 30:17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 5 the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 6 30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. 7 For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive 8
1 tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the
2 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “a very large assembly.” This has not been translated to avoid redundancy with the expression “a huge crowd” at the beginning of the verse.
3 tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.”
4 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”
5 tn Heb “were over the slaughter of.”
6 tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the
7 tn Heb “without what is written.”
8 tn Heb “make atonement for.”
