21And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.


In Context

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. And they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah removed, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20 And he sacrificed upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

22 For there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:21 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:21The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:21And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:21The king commanded all the people, saying, |Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying, 'Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on this book of the covenant.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.