John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:5
And stand in the holy place ,.... The court of the priests, where their ministrations were: according to the divisions of the families of your brethren the people ; of the other tribes, who were according to their families to provide a lamb for the passover: and after the division of the families of the Levites ; who were obliged to observe the same ordinance in their respective families, and for whom, as well as for the other families of Israel, they were to slay the lamb. 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