10 The messengers went to every town in Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the way to Zebulun, but the people laughed at them and made fun of them.
11 But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun were sorry for what they had done and went to Jerusalem.
12 And God united all the people of Judah in obeying King Hezekiah and his officers, because their command had come from the Lord.
13 In the second month a large crowd came together in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
14 The people removed the altars and incense altars to gods in Jerusalem and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
15 They killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, so they made themselves holy and brought burnt offerings into the Temple of the Lord.
16 They took their regular places in the Temple as the Teachings of Moses, the man of God, commanded. The Levites gave the blood of the sacrifices to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.