2 Kings 23:21-23

Contemporary English Version

Josiah and the People of Judah Celebrate Passover

(2 Chronicles 35.1-19)

²¹ Josiah told the people of Judah, “Celebrate Passover in honor of the Lord your God, just as it says in The Book of God's Law.”^[a]

²² This festival had not been celebrated in this way since the time that tribal leaders ruled Israel or the kings ruled Israel and Judah. ²³ But in Josiah's eighteenth year as king of Judah, everyone came to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.