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Hezekiah prays for those whose hearts seek God despite incomplete purification.
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2 Chronicles 30:18-19

Hezekiah Prays for the People

Hezekiah Invites All Israel to Passover · 2 Chronicles 30

Story guide: Hezekiah prays for those whose hearts seek God despite incomplete purification.

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18For a great many of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as it is written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May Yahweh, who is good, make atonement for them—”

19everyone whose heart was set to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though not according to the purification required for the holy place.

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