2 Chronicles 30:17
King James Version
“For many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one not clean, to sanctify unto the LORD.”
Context
14And they arose and took away the altars that in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast into the brook Kidron.
15Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
16And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, of the hand of the Levites.
17For many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one not clean, to sanctify unto the LORD.
18For a multitude of the people, many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
19prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though not according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.