14. They went out and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
15. They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought in burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
16. They stood at their places according to the Law of Moses, the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood they received from the hands of the Levites.
17. For there were many in the assembly who had consecrated themselves, so the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for those who were not clean in order to consecrate the people to the Lord.
18. For a multitude of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves. For they ate of the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed over them saying, “The Lord is good, and may He pardon
19. everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, but is not pure according the rules of the holy sanctuary.”
20. So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.