2 Chronicles 35:18
Good News Translation
Since the days of the prophet Samuel, the Passover had never been celebrated like this. None of the former kings had ever celebrated a Passover like this one celebrated by King Josiah, the priests, the Levites, and the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem

New Revised Standard Version
No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josiah, by the priests and the Levites, by all Judah and Israel who were present, and by the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
People from Jerusalem and from towns all over Judah and Israel were there. Passover had not been observed like this since the days of Samuel the prophet. In fact, this was the greatest Passover celebration in Israel's history!

New American Bible
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the time of Samuel the prophet; no king of Israel had observed a Passover like that celebrated by Josiah, the priests, and Levites, all of Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

there was no passover

2 Chronicles 30:5 And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed by the law.

2 Kings 23:21-23 And 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. . . .

neither did

2 Chronicles 30:26,27 And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not been in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel. . . .

Context
Josiah Restores the Passover
17And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase at that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days. 18There 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.19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase celebrated.…
Cross References
2 Kings 23:21
And 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.

2 Kings 23:22
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,

2 Chronicles 30:5
And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed by the law.

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

2 Chronicles 35:17
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