2 Chronicles 35:1
Josiah <02977> [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.
fourteenth <0702> [the fourteenth.]
Josiah'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.
2 Chronicles 35:11
priests <03548> [the priests.]
skinned <06584> [flayed them.]
2 Chronicles 35:19
2 Chronicles 30:2
king <04428> [the king.]
second month <08145 02320> [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.
2 Chronicles 35:6
Slaughter <07819> [So kill.]
consecrate <06942> [sanctify.]
2 Chronicles 35:18
Passover .......................... Passover <06453> [there was no passover.]
Not one on purer principles, more heartily joined in by the people present, more literally or exactly consecrated, according to the law, or more religiously observed. The words do not refer to the number present, but to the manner and spirit.
this had .... observed ................. had observed ....... celebrated <06213> [neither did.]
2 Chronicles 30:15
ashamed <03637> [were ashamed.]
consecrated <06942> [and sanctified.]
2 Chronicles 30:17
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
slaughtered <07821> [the killing.]
2 Chronicles 35:9
supplied <07311> [gave. Heb. offered.]
2 Chronicles 35:13
cooked ............ cooked <01310> [roasted.]
cooked ............ cooked <01310> [sod.]
served <07323> [divided them speedily. Heb. made them run.]
2 Chronicles 35:16-17
present <04672> [present. Heb. found. the feast.]
2 Chronicles 30:1
Israel ................................ Israel <03478> [Israel.]
Ephraim <0669> [Ephraim.]
temple <01004> [to the house.]
observe <06213> [to keep.]
2 Chronicles 30:5
sent <05975> [established.]
edict <05674> [to make proclamation.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [from Beer-sheba.]
observe ................ observed <06213> [for they.]
2 Chronicles 30:18
many .... Ephraim <0669 07227> [many of Ephraim.]
ceremonially <03808 02891> [had not cleansed.]
Passover <06453> [the passover.]
prayed <06419> [prayed.]
good <02896> [The good.]
2 Chronicles 35:7-8
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
supplied <07311> [gave. Heb. offered.]
30,000 ............ 3,000 <0505 07970> [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.
royal <07399 04428> [the king's substance.]
officials <08269> [his princes.]
supplied <07311 05414> [gave. Heb. offered. willingly.]
Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]
leaders <05057> [rulers.]
