2 Chronicles 35:1-3 NASB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 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 (2 Chron. 34:33); but his solemnizing the passover, which was touched upon there (2 Kgs. 23:21), is very particularly related here. Many were the feasts of the Lord, appointed by the ceremonial law, but the passover was the chief. It began them all in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt; it concluded them all in the night wherein Christ was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1

Moreover, Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem ,.... Where only it was to be kept: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month ; the month Nisan, as the Targum, which was the exact time of killing the passover lamb, according to the law of Moses, Exodus 12:6 , in the Vulgate Latin version of the Apocrypha in:"And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month;' (1... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:2

And he set the priests in their charges ,.... In their offices, and in their proper places, to execute them: and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord ; to attend it with cheerfulness and constancy, and do it according to the will of God, promising his favour and protection. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:3

And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel ,.... Whose business it was to go through the several tribes, and instruct them in the knowledge of God, his word and worship, statutes and ordinances. In an ancient MS. mentioned by Junius, it is read, "who prepared for all Israel the holy things", &c.; which were holy unto the Lord ; who were consecrated to the name of the Lord, as the Targum, dedicated to his worship and service; or it may signify the holy things they taught or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:3

Put the holy ark in the house - It is likely that the priests had secured this when they found that the idolatrous kings were determined to destroy every thing that might lead the people to the worship of the true God. And now, as all appears to be well established, the ark is ordered to be put into its own place. For an ample account of this passover and the reformation that was then made, see on 2 Kings 23:1 ; (note), etc., and the places marked in the margin. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1

They killed the Passover on the fourteenth … of the first month; i.e. on the day appointed originally ( Exodus 12:6 ). It will be remembered that, under special circumstances, the same day of the second month was authorized by "Hezekiah and his princes" ( 2 Chronicles 30:2 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-19

solemn celebration of the Passover. (For the homiletics of this passage, or the subject of it, see those written on 2 Chronicles 30:1-27 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-19

The great Passover of Josiah. I. GREAT IN RESPECT OF ITS CONFORMITY TO THE LAW . To suppose (De Wette, Thenius, and others) that never before had a Passover been observed in Israel or Judah since the days of Samuel ( 2 Chronicles 35:18 ; 1 Esdras 1:20, 21) or of the judges ( 2 Kings 23:22 ), is not only to extract an unwarrantable inference from the sacred text, but is contradicted by the fact that Hezekiah, a former King of Judah, celebrated a Passover in Jerusalem... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.