American Standard Version
"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. "
— 2 Kings 23:21, American Standard Version
“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.”
“The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."”
“The king ordered all the people,“Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.””
“And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.”
“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.”
“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.”
And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
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 Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
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.
Surely there was not kept 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;
but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.
Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.