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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

The celebration of the Passover, with its sacred suggestions. The whole of this chapter is concerned with Hezekiah's call of priests, Levites, princes, and congregation of the people to observe and celebrate with himself the grand solemnity of the Passover. From the analogy of the precedent provided for individual cases of certain kinds of necessity ( Numbers 9:10 ), this celebration for the whole nation is fixed for the fourteenth day of the second month instead of the first. This was... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:13

This verse purports to say that the total, at any rate, of the attendance on the Passover was very large. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:13-27

A national Passover at Jerusalem. I. THE CELEBRATING CONGREGATION . 1 . Large. "Much people; … a very great congregation" ( 2 Chronicles 30:13 ). Though this was usual at the chief religious festivals of the nation, probably so vast a concourse of people as assembled at Jerusalem in answer to the king's invitation, in the second month of the first or seventh year of his reign (see preceding homily), had not been witnessed since the days of Jehoiada ( 2 Chronicles 23:2 )... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:14

Took away the altars … the brook Kidron (see 2 Chronicles 28:24 ; 2 Chronicles 29:16 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:15

Were ashamed ; Hebrew, גִכְלְמוּ . This word, occurring in one conjugation or another thirty-eight times, expresses in every instance a genuine shame. It now was the forerunner of a practical repenting. And brought in … into ; better rendered, and carried up to the house of the Lord. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:16

They stood in their place after their manner (see Le 2 Chronicles 1:11-13 , and many other references in Leviticus). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:17

Therefore the Levites had the charge (see Leviticus 1:1-17 ; etc; which repeatedly affirms that the original directions of Moses were that the person who brought the victim to offer it was to slay it, and to bring the blood). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:17-20

The one essential thing. A very interesting and instructive incident occurred in the celebration of this great Passover. Many who presented themselves and brought their lamb had not gone through the prescribed purifications before engaging in an act of sacrifice, and they were disqualified to slay the lamb. So the Levites, under the peculiar circumstances, took this part for them. It was a formal irregularity; it was not according to the letter of the Law; there had been a breach of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:18

So also the original Law of Moses prescribed that the uncleansed must not eat the Passover ( Numbers 9:6 ). read more

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