Tuesday, 10/26/2021
Unity Invokes Grace (2 Chronicles 30:13-20)
2 Chronicles 30:13 (ESV) ~ And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
2 Chronicles 30:14 (ESV) ~ They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 30:15 (ESV) ~ And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:16 (ESV) ~ They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 30:17 (ESV) ~ For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:18 (ESV) ~ For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone
2 Chronicles 30:19 (ESV) ~ who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”
2 Chronicles 30:20 (ESV) ~ And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.