²¹ And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. ²² Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; ²³ but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.