John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:6
So kill the passover ,.... In the manner, time, and place, and for the persons it should be killed: and sanctify yourselves : by washing themselves and garments, that they might be fit for this service: and prepare your brethren ; prepare a lamb for your brethren, or instruct them how to perform their office that needed instruction: that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses ; celebrate the ordinance of the passover in all its rites, according to the... read more
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