2 Kings 23:21 · KJV
“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.”
— 2 Kings 23:21
And he slew all the priests of the high places that {were} there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. {slew: or, sacrificed}
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings 23 — Context
And all the houses also of the high places that {were} in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke {the LORD} to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20And he slew all the priests of the high places that {were} there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. {slew: or, sacrificed}
21And 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.
22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, {wherein} this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Numbers 9:2-5
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Exodus 12:3-20
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth {day} of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of {their} fathers, a lamb for an house: {lamb: or, kid}
Leviticus 23:5-8
In the fourteenth {day} of the first month at even {is} the LORD'S passover.
2 Chronicles 35:1-19
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth {day} of the first month.
Numbers 28:16-25
And in the fourteenth day of the first month {is} the passover of the LORD.