For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the
2 Chronicles 30:18-19 ESVLord , the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”
2 Chronicles 30 Not exactly to the “letter of the law” but to the spirit. Hezekiah prays for those that are unclean so that they may still partake of the celebration of Passover, when God passes over the judgement of their sins. [Read the chapter.]
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You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
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