2 Chronicles 30
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel.
Misit quoque Ezechias ad omnem Israel et Iudam: scripsitque epistolas ad Ephraim et Manassen ut venirent ad domum Domini in Ierusalem, et facerent Phase Domino Deo Israel.
2 And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.
Inito ergo consilio regis et principum, et universi cœtus Ierusalem, decreverunt ut facerent Phase mense secundo.
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not hallowed themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people been gathered together to Jerusalem.
Non enim potuerant facere in tempore suo, quia sacerdotes, qui possent sufficere, sanctificati non fuerant, et populus nondum congregatus fuerat in Ierusalem.
4 And the thing pleased the king and the whole congregation.
Placuitque sermo regi, et omni multitudini.
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel, at Jerusalem; because they had not held it for a long time as it was written.
Et decreverunt ut mitterent nuncios in universum Israel de Bersabee usque Dan ut venirent, et facerent Phase Domino Deo Israel in Ierusalem: multi enim non fecerant sicut lege præscriptum est.
6 And the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Perrexeruntque cursores cum epistolis ex regis imperio, et principum eius, in universum Israel et Iudam iuxta id, quod rex iusserat, prædicantes: Filii Israel revertimini ad Dominum Deum Abraham, et Isaac, et Israel: et revertetur ad reliquias, quæ effugerunt manum regis Assyriorum.
7 And be not like your fathers and like your brethren, who transgressed against Jehovah the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Nolite fieri sicut patres vestri et fratres, qui recesserunt a Domino Deo patrum suorum, qui tradidit eos in interitum, ut ipsi cernitis.
8 Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.
Nolite indurare cervices vestras, sicut patres vestri: tradite manus Domino, et venite ad sanctuarium eius, quod sanctificavit in æternum: servite Domino Deo patrum vestrorum, et avertetur a vobis ira furoris eius.
9 For if ye return to Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion with those that have carried them captive, so that they shall come again unto this land; for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.
Si enim vos reversi fueritis ad Dominum: fratres vestri, et filii habebunt misericordiam coram dominis suis, qui illos duxerunt captivos, et revertentur in terram hanc: pius enim et clemens est Dominus Deus vester, et non avertet faciem suam a vobis, si reversi fueritis ad eum.
10 And the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
Igitur cursores pergebant velociter de civitate in civitatem per terram Ephraim, et Manasse usque ad Zabulon, illis irridentibus et subsannantibus eos.
11 Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
Attamen quidam viri ex Aser, et Manasse, et Zabulon acquiescentes consilio, venerunt Ierusalem.
12 The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of Jehovah.
In Iuda vero facta est manus Domini ut daret eis cor unum, ut facerent iuxta præceptum regis, et principum verbum Domini.
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to hold the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
Congregatique sunt in Ierusalem populi multi ut facerent sollemnitatem azymorum, in mense secundo:
14 And they rose up and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem; and they took away all the incense-altars, and cast them into the torrent Kidron.
et surgentes destruxerunt altaria quæ erant in Ierusalem, atque universa, in quibus idolis adolebatur incensum, subvertentes, proiecerunt in Torrentem Cedron.
15 And they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and hallowed themselves; and they brought the burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.
Immolaverunt autem Phase quartadecima die mensis secundi. Sacerdotes quoque, atque Levitæ tandem sanctificati obtulerunt holocausta in domo Domini:
16 And they stood in their place after their custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [receiving it] from the hand of the Levites.
Steteruntque in ordine suo iuxta dispositionem, et legem Moysi hominis Dei: Sacerdotes vero suscipiebant effundendum sanguinem de manibus Levitarum,
17 For there were many in the congregation that were not hallowed; therefore the Levites had the charge of the slaughtering of the passover-lambs for every one not clean, to hallow them unto Jehovah.
eo quod multa turba sanctificata non esset: et idcirco immolarent Levitæ Phase his, qui non occurrerant sanctificari Domino.
18 For a multitude of the people, many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, and they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them saying, Jehovah, who is good, forgive every one
Magna etiam pars populi de Ephraim, et Manasse, et Issachar, et Zabulon, quæ sanctificata non fuerat, comedit Phase, non iuxta quod scriptum est: et oravit pro eis Ezechias, dicens: Dominus bonus propitiabitur
19 that has directed his heart to seek God, Jehovah the God of his fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary.
cunctis, qui in toto corde requirunt Dominum Deum patrum suorum: et non imputabit eis quod minus sanctificati sunt.
20 And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Quem exaudivit Dominus, et placatus est populo.
21 And the children of Israel, that were present at Jerusalem, held the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day, with the instruments of praise to Jehovah.
Feceruntque filii Israel, qui inventi sunt in Ierusalem, sollemnitatem azymorum septem diebus in lætitia magna, laudantes Dominum per singulos dies: Levitæ quoque, et Sacerdotes per organa, quæ suo officio congruebant.
22 And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah the God of their fathers.
Et locutus est Ezechias ad cor omnium Levitarum, qui habebant intelligentiam bonam super Domino: et comederunt septem diebus sollemnitatis, immolantes victimas pacificorum, et laudantes Dominum Deum patrum suorum.
23 And the whole congregation took counsel to observe other seven days; and they observed the seven days with gladness.
Placuitque universæ multitudini ut celebrarent etiam alios dies septem: quod et fecerunt cum ingenti gaudio.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation as heave-offering: a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests hallowed themselves.
Ezechias enim rex Iuda præbuerat multitudini mille tauros, et septem millia ovium: principes vero dederant populo tauros mille, et oves decem millia: sanctificata est ergo sacerdotum plurima multitudo.
25 And the whole congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
Et hilaritate perfusa omnis turba Iuda tam Sacerdotum et Levitarum, quam universæ frequentiæ, quæ venerat ex Israel; proselytorum quoque de Terra Israel, et habitantium in Iuda.
26 And there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there had not been the like in Jerusalem.
Factaque est grandis celebritas in Ierusalem, qualis a diebus Salomonis filii David regis Israel in ea urbe non fuerat.
27 And the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, to the heavens.
Surrexerunt autem Sacerdotes atque Levitæ benedicentes populo: et exaudita est vox eorum: pervenitque oratio in habitaculum sanctum cæli.
