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


In Context

18 He said, |Let him be! Let no man move his bones.| So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

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

20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

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

22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who 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 kept to Yahweh 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.