2 Chronicles 30:18

Many from the northern tribes ate the Passover without proper cleansing, and Hezekiah prayed that God would pardon them. It matters because the king interceded for sincere but ceremonially deficient worshipers.

Cross-references · 19

• Jas 5:15–16And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
• 1 Cor 11:28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
• Num 9:10–14“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
• Dan 9:19O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
• 2 Chr 6:21Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
• 2 Chr 30:25Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.
• 2 Chr 30:11Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
• Gen 20:7Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”
• Num 19:20But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Exod 12:43–51And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
• 1 Jn 5:16If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.
• Exod 34:6–9Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Job 42:8–9So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
• Gen 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
• Ps 119:68You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
• Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
• Num 14:18–20‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
• Ps 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

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