7. Don’t be like your ancestors or your relatives. They turned against the Lord, the God their fathers obeyed. So the Lord caused other people to be disgusted with them. You know this is true.
8. Don’t be stubborn as your ancestors were. Obey the Lord willingly. Come to the Temple, which the Lord has made holy for his service forever. Serve the Lord your God. Then he will not be angry with you.
9. Come back and obey the Lord. Then the people who captured your relatives and children will be kind to them. They will let them return to this land. The Lord your God is kind and merciful. He will not turn away from you if you come back to him.
10. The messengers went to every town in Ephraim and Manasseh. They went all the way to Zebulun. But the people laughed at the messengers and made fun of them.
11. But some men from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun were sorry for what they had done and went to Jerusalem.
12. And God caused all the people of Judah to agree to obey King Hezekiah and his officers. Their command had come from the Lord.
13. A large crowd came together in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This was in the second month.
14. The people removed the altars and incense altars to false gods in Jerusalem. And they threw them into the Kidron Valley.
15. They killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed. So they made themselves holy for the Lord. They brought burnt offerings into the Temple of the Lord.