2 Chronicles 30:23
Good News Translation
they all decided to celebrate for another seven days. So they celebrated with joy.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the festival for another seven days; so they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone was so excited that they agreed to celebrate seven more days.

New American Bible
the whole assembly agreed to celebrate another seven days. So with joy they celebrated seven days more.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days: which they did with great joy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days: which they did with great joy.

took counsel

2 Chronicles 30:2 For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

2 Chronicles 7:9 And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the solemnity seven days.

1 Kings 8:65 And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.

Context
Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover
22And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the Lord the God of their fathers. 23And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days: which they did with great joy.24For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given the people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests was sanctified.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:65
And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.

2 Chronicles 30:24
For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given the people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests was sanctified.

2 Chronicles 30:22
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