2 Kings 23:21
“Love faith. For by his devotion and faith Josiah won great love for himself from his enemies. For he celebrated the Lord's Passover when he was eighteen years old, as no one had done it before him. As then in zeal he was superior to those who went before him, so do you, my children, show zeal for God. Let zeal for God…”
Source: Septuagint
21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
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19Moreover Josiah removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Bethel.
20And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burned the bones of men upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
— 2 Kings 23:21 —
22For a Passover such as this had not been kept from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah.
23But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, was the Passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.