Seeking Hearts Are Healed

2 Chronicles 30:18-20
18 Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, "May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary." 20 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Following the initial worship at the newly-opened Temple, Hezekiah decided to celebrate the Passover, though it wasn't the right day. Some people scoffed at the idea, but some "humbled themselves." I like that. We go around full of pride, ready to scorn any plan that wasn't our own. In Judah, they had a richer revival experience yet, as the very hand of God touched them with unity.
This is a nice foreshadowing of the end of Jewish ritual in favor of spiritual worship. Some of those who came had not been able to achieve ritual purity, but God honored the king's prayer that God would look on their hearts.