John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:10
So the service was prepared ,.... Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor: and the priests stood in their place ; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse: and the Levites in their courses ; whose turn it was to officiate: according to the king's commandment , 2 Chronicles 35:4 . 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