NET Bible
"But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem."
— 2 Kings 23:23, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
The king ordered all the people,“Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”
He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges who led Israel; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the LORD was observed in Jerusalem.
Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD’s temple.
No king before or after repented before the LORD as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses.
Yet the LORD’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.