2 Kings 23:21
“¶ And the King commanded all the people saying, Keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord your God, as it is written in this booke of the Couenant.”
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2 Kings 23:21 Context
19And all the houses also of the hie places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to prouoke the Lord to anger, Iosiah tooke away, and did to them according to all the actes that hee had done in Bethel. 20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, and returned to Ierusalem. 21¶ And the King commanded all the people saying, Keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord your God, as it is written in this booke of the Couenant. 22Surely there was not holden such a Passeouer, from the daies of the Iudges that iudged Israel, nor in all the dayes of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Iudah: 23But in the eighteenth yeere of king Iosiah, wherein this Passeouer was holden to the Lord in Ierusalem.
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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.
- King James Version
Then the king commanded all the people saying, "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God as it is written in this book of the covenant."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
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.
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's Bible
The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."
- World English Bible
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.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
And the king commanded all the people, saying: 'Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible