1 Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.
2 Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month—
3 but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem—
4 and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.