Catholic Public Domain Version
"as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah. "
— 2 Kings 23:23, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.”
“but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem. ”
“but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.”
“But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem.”
“As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.”
“In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.”
“But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.”
And all the priests of the high places, who were in that place, he killed upon the altars. And he burned the bones of the men upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.
And he instructed all the people, saying: “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, according to what has been written in the book of this covenant.”
Now no similar Passover was kept, from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, and from all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,
as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah.
Then too, Josiah took away those who divined by spirits, and the soothsayers, and the images of the idols, and the defilements, and the abominations, which had been in the land of Judah and Jerusalem, so that he might establish the words of the law, which were written in the book, which Hilkiah, the priest, found in the temple of the Lord.
There was no king before him similar to him, who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses. And after him, there rose up no one similar to him.
Yet truly, the Lord did not turn away from the wrath of his great fury, his fury which was enraged against Judah because of the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.