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When the king had said this, the priests opened the temple; and when
they had set in order the vessels of God, and east out what was impure,
they laid the accustomed sacrifices upon the altar. The king also sent
to the country that was under him, and called the people to Jerusalem to
celebrate the feast of unleavened bread, for it had been intermitted a
long time, on account of the wickedness of the forementioned kings. He
also sent to the Israelites, and exhorted them to leave off their present
way of living, and return to their ancient practices, and to worship God,
for that he gave them leave to come to Jerusalem, and to celebrate, all
in one body, the feast of unleavened bread; and this he said was by way
of invitation only, and to be done of their own good-will, and for their
own advantage, and not out of obedience to him, because it would make them
happy. But the Israelites, upon the coming of the ambassadors, and upon
their laying before them what they had in charge from their own king, were
so far from complying therewith, that they laughed the ambassadors to scorn,
and mocked them as fools: as also they affronted the prophets, which gave
them the same exhortations, and foretold what they would suffer if they
did not return to the worship of God, insomuch that at length they caught
them, and slew them; nor did this degree of transgressing suffice them,
but they had more wicked contrivances than what have been described: nor
did they leave off, before God, as a punishment for their impiety, brought
them under their enemies: but of that more hereafter. However, many there
were of the tribe of Manasseh, and of Zebulon, and of Issachar, who were
obedient to what the prophets exhorted them to do, and returned to the
worship of God. Now all these came running to Jerusalem, to Hezekiah, that
they might worship God [there].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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