[DailyReading] Sanctification before the Passover

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Lesson: Ready for Communion?
Reading: Sanctification before the Passover  2012-07-18
Reference: 2 Chron. 30:13-21 

2Chr 30:13: And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
2Chr 30:14: And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
2Chr 30:15: Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
2Chr 30:16: And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
2Chr 30:17: For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.
2Chr 30:18: For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one
2Chr 30:19: That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2Chr 30:20: And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
2Chr 30:21: And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
(KJV) 





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