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Matthew Henry

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

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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:1-27

The final reform (34:1-35:27)Another reform swept Judah during the reign of Josiah (34:1-33; see notes on 2 Kings 22:1-23:20). As with the reform of Hezekiah, the climax in the eyes of the Chronicler was a great Passover Feast in Jerusalem.After returning the ark to its rightful place in the temple, the priests and Levites prepared themselves for their duties. Josiah arranged them in divisions as Hezekiah had done earlier, so that the music, singing, sacrifices and other rituals could be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 35:1

Josiah. This passover kept in the eighteenth year of his reign (2 Kings 23:21-23 ). kept a passover. One of the ten observances recorded. See note on Exodus 12:28 . fourteenth day. In this respect it was unlike Hezekiah's. Compare 2 Chronicles 30:2 , 2Ch 30:3 ; 2 Kings 23:22 , 2 Kings 23:23 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:1

JOSIAH GIVES ORDER FOR OBSERVANCE OF THE PASSOVER ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF JEHOVAH BY MOSESThis passover was utterly unlike the one kept in the reign of Hezekiah, in a number of important particulars. (1) It was kept at the prescribed time. (2) The ceremonial cleanness of participants was observed. (3) And all the particulars of the Mosaic instructions were strictly observed. (4) Although the singers were mentioned, the instruments of music were not mentioned, and apparently not used. These... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:1

1-3. Moreover Josiah kept a passover—(See on :-). The first nine verses give an account of the preparations made for the celebration of the solemn feast [ :-]. The day appointed by the law was kept on this occasion (compare 2 Chronicles 30:2; 2 Chronicles 30:13). The priests were ranged in their courses and exhorted to be ready for their duties in the manner that legal purity required (compare 2 Chronicles 30:13- :). The Levites, the ministers or instructors of the people in all matters... read more

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