2Ch 30:1-3, 13-20, 35:3-17 | TSK | STEP | Hezekiah proclaims a solemn passover on the second month for Judah and Israel. The assembly, having destroyed the altars of idolatry, keep the feast fourteen days. The priests and Levites bless the people. Israel. Ephraim. to the house. to keep.

2 Chronicles 30:1-3

1 Hezekiah proclaims a solemn passover on the second month for Judah and Israel.

13 The assembly, having destroyed the altars of idolatry, keep the feast fourteen days.

27 The priests and Levites bless the people.

Israel.

11:13,16

Ephraim.

10,11; 25:7; 35:6; Ho 5:4; 7:8,9; 11:8

to the house.

De 16:2-6

to keep.

Ex 12:3-20; 1Co 5:7,8

the king.

1Ch 13:1-3; Pr 11:14; 15:22; Ec 4:13

in the second month.In Ijar, as they could not celebrate in Nisan, the 14th of which month was the proper time. But Hezekiah and his counsellors justly concluded, that the regulation of the 14th day of the second month, which had been made for individuals who were hindered from eating the passover at the appointed season, might in their present circumstances be extended to the people at large.

Nu 9:10,11

at that time.

Ex 12:6,18

because.

29:34

2 Chronicles 30:13-20

there assembled.

Ps 84:7

the second month.

altars.

28:24; 34:4,7; 2Ki 18:22; 23:12,13; Isa 2:18-20

the brook.

15:16; 29:16; 2Sa 15:23; Joh 18:1

Cedron.

were ashamed.

29:34; Eze 16:61-63; 43:10,11

and sanctified.

24; 5:11; 29:15,34; 31:18; Ex 19:10,22

they stood.

35:10,15

place. Heb. standing. after their manner.

2Ki 11:14

Moses.

De 33:1

the priests.

35:10,11; Le 1:5; Heb 11:28

the Levites.

29:34; 35:3-6

the killing.

Ex 12:6

many of Ephraim.

had not cleansed.

Nu 9:10-14; 19:20; 1Co 11:28

the passover.

Ex 12:43-51

prayed.

Ge 20:7,17; Job 42:8,9; Jas 5:15,16; 1Jo 5:16

The good.

6:21; Ex 34:6-9; Nu 14:18-20; Ps 25:8; 36:5; 86:5; 119:68; Da 9:19

prepareth.

19:3; 20:33; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ch 29:18; Ezr 7:10; Job 11:13; Ps 10:17

Pr 23:26

though he be not.

Le 12:4; 15:31-33; 21:17-23; 22:3-6; Nu 9:6; 19:13-20

healed.

Ex 15:26; Ps 103:3; Jas 5:15,16

2 Chronicles 35:3-17

the Levites.

17:8,9; 30:22; De 33:10; Ne 8:7,8; Mal 2:7

Put.

8:11; 34:14

in the house.

5:7

not be.

Nu 4:15-49; 1Ch 23:26

serve now.

Nu 8:19; 16:9,10; 2Co 4:5

the houses.

1Ch 9:10-34; Ne 11:10-20

after your courses.The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and Levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything: he merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: "the commandment of the king....was by the word of the Lord."

1Ch 23:1-26:32

and according.

8:14

And stand.

Ps 134:1; 135:2

families of the fathers. Heb. house of the fathers. people.Heb. sons of the people.

So kill.

30:15-17; Ex 12:6,21,22; Ezr 6:20,21

sanctify.

29:5,15,34; 30:3,15-19; Ge 35:2; Ex 19:10,15; Nu 19:11-20; Job 1:5

Ps 51:7; Joe 2:16; Heb 9:13,14

Josiah.

7:8-10; 30:24; Isa 32:8; Eze 45:17

gave. Heb. offered.

1Ki 8:63

thirty thousand.According to the calculation, that not fewer than ten, nor more than twenty persons, were to join for one kid or lamb, the numbers given on this occasion would suffice for above 400,000 persons.

the king's substance.

1Ki 8:63; 1Ch 29:3

his princes.

29:31-33; 1Ch 29:6-9,17; Ezr 1:6; 2:68,69; 7:16; 8:25-35

Ne 7:70-72; Ps 45:12; Ac 2:44,45; 4:34,35

gave. Heb. offered. willingly.

2Co 8:12; 9:7

Hilkiah.

34:14-20

rulers.

1Ch 9:20; 24:4,5; Jer 29:25,26; Ac 4:1; 5:26

gave. Heb. offered.