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

the king

2 Chronicles 13:1-3 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda. . . .

Proverbs 11:14 He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

14th of which month was the proper time. But Hezekiah and his counsellors justly concluded, that the regulation of the

14th day of the second month, which had been made for individuals who were hindered from eating the passover at the appointed season, might in their present circumstances be extended to the people at large.

Numbers 9:10,11 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord. . . .

Context
Hezekiah Proclaims a Passover
1And 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, 2For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.3For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered together to Jerusalem.…
Cross References
Numbers 9:10
Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord.

Numbers 9:11
In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:

2 Chronicles 30:1
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 30:13
And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:

2 Chronicles 30:15
And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.

Lexicon
For the king
הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king

and his officials
וְשָׂרָ֛יו (wə·śā·rāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

and the whole
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

assembly
הַקָּהָ֖ל (haq·qā·hāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

in Jerusalem
בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (bî·rū·šā·lim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel

had decided
וַיִּוָּעַ֨ץ (way·yiw·wā·‘aṣ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3289: To advise, to deliberate, resolve

to keep
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

the Passover
הַפֶּ֖סַח (hap·pe·saḥ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6453: A pretermission, exemption, Passover

in the second
הַשֵּׁנִֽי׃ (haš·šê·nî)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8145: Second (an ordinal number)

month,
בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ (ba·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2320: The new moon, a month


Additional Translations
For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the passover in the second month.

And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

And the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,
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