and the strangers that "came out from the land of Israel" were said to take part in the passover event. Biblical scholars such as Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim that Hezekiah might have annexed these territories, which were inhabited by the Kingdom of Israel, into his own kingdom.

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the , the God of Israel.