
Text -- 2 Chronicles 35:5 (NET)




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Or, minister, (as that word is frequently used) in the court of the priests.

Wesley: 2Ch 35:5 - -- According to the several families both of the people, whom he calls their brethren, lest they should despise them, or grudge to serve them, and of the...
According to the several families both of the people, whom he calls their brethren, lest they should despise them, or grudge to serve them, and of the Levites. For the passover was to be eaten by the several families according to their numbers, and therefore he commands these persons, that when the paschal lambs were brought to them to be killed, they might so order the matter, that they might be distributed to the several families whether of the Levitical or other tribes.
JFB -> 2Ch 35:5
JFB: 2Ch 35:5 - -- In the court of the priests, the place where the victims were killed. The people were admitted according to their families in groups or companies of s...
In the court of the priests, the place where the victims were killed. The people were admitted according to their families in groups or companies of several households at a time. When the first company entered the court (which consisted commonly of as many as it could well hold), the gates were shut and the offering was made. The Levites stood in rows from the slaughtering places to the altar, and handed the blood and fat from one to another of the officiating priests (2Ch 30:16-18).
TSK -> 2Ch 35:5

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Barnes -> 2Ch 35:5
Barnes: 2Ch 35:5 - -- The sense of this verse probably is: "So divide yourselves that, for every distinct family among the people who come to the Passover, there shall be...
The sense of this verse probably is: "So divide yourselves that, for every distinct family among the people who come to the Passover, there shall be a portion of a Levitical family to minister."
Poole -> 2Ch 35:5
Poole: 2Ch 35:5 - -- Stand in the place or, minister , as that word is frequently used, in the court of the priests, which is so called elsewhere, as hath been noted bef...
Stand in the place or, minister , as that word is frequently used, in the court of the priests, which is so called elsewhere, as hath been noted before.
After the division of the families of the Levites i.e. according to the several families both of the people, whom he calls their brethren, lest they should despise them, or grudge to serve them, and of the Levites. For the passover was to be eaten by the several families according to their numbers, Exo 12:3 . And therefore he commands these persons, that when the paschal lambs were brought to them to be killed, as they were, 2Ch 35:7-9 , they might so order the matter, that they might be distributed to the several families, whether of the Levitical or other tribes.
Haydock -> 2Ch 35:5
Haydock: 2Ch 35:5 - -- Families. Heb. adds, "according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren, the people, (H.; or laics. C.) and the division of...
Families. Heb. adds, "according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren, the people, (H.; or laics. C.) and the division of the families of the Levites." All were placed, with great order, in the temple.
Gill -> 2Ch 35:5
Gill: 2Ch 35:5 - -- And stand in the holy place,.... The court of the priests, where their ministrations were:
according to the divisions of the families of your breth...
And stand in the holy place,.... The court of the priests, where their ministrations were:
according to the divisions of the families of your brethren the people; of the other tribes, who were according to their families to provide a lamb for the passover:
and after the division of the families of the Levites; who were obliged to observe the same ordinance in their respective families, and for whom, as well as for the other families of Israel, they were to slay the lamb.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ch 35:1-27
TSK Synopsis: 2Ch 35:1-27 - --1 Josiah keeps a most solemn passover.20 He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo.25 Lamentations for Josiah.
MHCC -> 2Ch 35:1-19
MHCC: 2Ch 35:1-19 - --The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's suppe...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ch 35:1-19
Matthew Henry: 2Ch 35:1-19 - -- The destruction which Josiah made of idols and idolatry was more largely related in the Kings, but just mentioned here in the foregoing chapter (v...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ch 35:1-19
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ch 35:1-19 - --
The solemnization of the passover . - To ratify the renewal of the covenant, and to confirm the people in the communion with the Lord into which it...
Constable: 2Ch 10:1--36:23 - --IV. THE REIGNS OF SOLOMON'S SUCCESSORS chs. 10--36
"With the close of Solomon's reign we embark upon a new phase...

Constable: 2Ch 34:1--35:27 - --P. Josiah chs. 34-35
Like Amon's death, Josiah's was unnecessarily premature. However unlike Amon Josiah...
