2 Kings 23:22
Good News Translation
No Passover like this one had ever been celebrated by any of the kings of Israel or of Judah, since the time when judges ruled the nation.

New Revised Standard Version
No such passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, even during all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah;

Contemporary English Version
This festival had not been celebrated in this way since the time that tribal leaders ruled Israel or the kings ruled Israel and Judah.

New American Bible
No Passover such as this had been observed during the period when the judges ruled Israel, or during the entire period of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,

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Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,

Surely.

2 Chronicles 35:18,19 There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. . . .

of the kings.

2 Chronicles 30:1-3,13-20 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

2 Chronicles 35:3-17 And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was sanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the temple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you shall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to his people Israel. . . .

Context
Josiah Restores the Passover
21And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant. 22Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,23As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.…
Cross References
2 Kings 23:23
As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.

2 Chronicles 35:18
There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 35:19
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase celebrated.

2 Kings 23:21
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