Exo 12:6, 14, Lev 23:5, Num 28:16, Deu 16:1-2, Jos 5:10, 2Ch 35:1, Ezr 6:19 | TSK | STEP | fourteenth. the whole. in the evening. Heb. between the two evenings.The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock, and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset, and continued till night, i.e., during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the passover was to be offered. See Parallel Passages.

‏ Exodus 12:6

fourteenth.

Le 23:5; Nu 9:3; 28:16,18; De 16:1-6; 2Ch 30:15; Eze 45:21

the whole.

2Ch 30:15-18; Isa 53:6; Mt 27:20,25; Mr 15:1,8,11,25,33,34

in the evening. Heb. between the two evenings.The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock, and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset, and continued till night, i.e., during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the passover was to be offered. See Parallel Passages.

16:12; Mt 27:46-50

‏ Exodus 12:14

memorial.

13:9; Nu 16:40; Jos 4:7; Ps 111:4; 135:13; Zec 6:14; Mt 26:13

Lu 22:19; 1Co 11:23-26

a feast.

5:1; De 16:11; Ne 8:9-12

by an ordinance.

17,24,43; 13:10; Le 23:4,5; Nu 10:8; 18:8; De 16:1; 1Sa 30:25

2Ki 23:21; Eze 46:14; 1Co 5:7,8

‏ Leviticus 23:5

Ex 12:2-14,18; 13:3-10; 23:15; Nu 9:2-7; 28:16; De 16:1-8; Jos 5:10

2Ch 35:18,19; Mt 26:17; Mr 14:12; Lu 22:7; 1Co 5:7,8

‏ Numbers 28:16

9:3-5; Ex 12:2-11,18,43-49; Le 23:5-8; De 16:1-8; Eze 45:21-24

Mt 26:2,17; Lu 22:7,8; Ac 12:3,4; 1Co 5:7,8

‏ Deuteronomy 16:1-2

1 The feast of the passover,

9 of weeks,

13 of tabernacles.

16 Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three feasts.

18 Of judges and justice.

21 Groves and images are forbidden.

the month.

Ex 12:2-20; 34:18; Le 23:5; Nu 9:2-5; 28:16

the passover.This word comes from the Hebrew verb {pasach,} to pass, to leap or skip over. The destroying angel passed over the houses marked with the blood of the Paschal Lamb, so the wrath of God passes over those whose souls sprinkled with the blood of Christ. 1Co 5:7. As the paschal lamb was killed before Israel was delivered, so by the death of Christ, we have redemption through his blood. It was killed before the tables of the law were delivered to Moses, or Aaron's sacrifices were enjoined; thus deliverance comes to men, not by the works of the law, but by the only true passover, the Lamb of God. Ro 3:25. Heb 9:14. It was killed the first month of the year, which prefigured that Christ should suffer death in that month. Joh 18:28. it was killed in the evening. Ex 12:6. Christ suffered at that time of the day. Mt 27:46. Heb 1:2. At even the sun sets; at Christ's passion, universal darkness was upon the whole earth. The passover was roasted with fire, denoting the sharp and dreadful pains that Christ should suffer, not only from men, but God also. It was to be eaten with bitter herbs, Ex 12:8; not only to put them in remembrance of their bitter bondage in Egypt, but also to testify our mortification to sin, and readiness to undergo afflictions for Christ, Col 1:24; and likewise to teach us the absolute necessity of true repentance in all that would profitably feed by faith on Christ, the true paschal lamb.

for in.

Ex 12:29-42; 13:4; 23:15; 34:18

sacrifice.

Ex 12:5-7; Nu 28:16-19; 2Ch 35:7; Mt 26:2,17; Mr 14:12; Lu 22:8,15

1Co 5:7

in the place which.

12:5,11,14,18,26; 15:20

‏ Joshua 5:10

kept the passover.

Eze 12:3,6,7-16; Nu 9:1-5

‏ 2 Chronicles 35:1

1 Josiah keeps a most solemn passover.

20 He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo.

25 Lamentations for Josiah.

Josiah.The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness according to the law, and upon that account there was none like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover there were several irregularities. Bp. Patrick observes, that in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as David, or Solomon, or Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was more than any king ever did before.

30:1-27; 2Ki 23:21-23

the fourteenth.

Ex 12:6; Nu 9:3; De 16:1-8; Ezr 6:19; Eze 45:21Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely alluded to at 2 Ki 23:21, is very particularly related her, while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the Kings, and here only touched upon. The feasts of the Lord God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but the passover was the chief. It was the first which was solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and ushered in those which were afterwards instituted: and it was the last great feast which was held in the night wherein Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in twain. Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah revived religion in their day.

‏ Ezra 6:19

the children.

kept.

Ex 12:6-36; Jos 5:10; 2Ch 30:1-35:27