⁴³ When they had finished the ^(A)days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem. And ^[a]Joseph and His mother did not know it;

^15 (A)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, ^(B)that ^[a]person shall be ^[b]cut off from Israel.

²¹ So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept ^(A)the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments. ²² And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites ^(B)who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and ^(C)making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

²³ Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast ^(D)another seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness.

Israel Defeats Judah^(A)

¹⁷ Now ^(B)Amaziah king of Judah asked advice and sent to ^[a]Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face one another in battle.”