18 For a multitude of the people, many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, and they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them saying, Jehovah, who is good, forgive every one19 that has directed his heart to seek God, Jehovah the God of his fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary.