Psalm 51:10 Create in me a
clean heart, O God,
and
renew a right[b] spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away
from your presence,
and
take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy
of your salvation,
and
uphold me with a willing spirit.
Acts 3: 19 Repent
therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing
may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed
for you, Jesus.
II Chronicles 30: 13 And
many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in
the second month, a very great assembly. 14 They set to work and removed the altars that were
in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw
into the brook Kidron. 15
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second
month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated
themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord. 16
They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God.
The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
17 For there were many
in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had
to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it
to the Lord. 18 For
a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and
Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than
as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the
sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”[a] 20 And the Lord heard
Hezekiah and healed the people. 21 And the people of Israel who were present at
Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness,
and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day,
singing with all their might[b] to the Lord.
22 And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly
to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace
offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of
their fathers.
23 Then the whole
assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept
it for another seven days with gladness.
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