Lìdaìzhìxià 30:3

3 Zhēngyuè ( yuánwén zuò nàshí ) jiān tāmen bùnéng shǒu . yīnwei zì jié de jìsī shàng bù fū yòng , bǎixìng yĕ méiyǒu jùjí zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng .

Lìdaìzhìxià 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 30:3

For they could not keep it at the time
In the month Nisan, as the Targum adds, on the fourteenth day of the month, as the law enjoined, because the cleansing of the temple was not finished until the sixteenth day, see ( 2 Chronicles 29:17 ) and, besides this, two other reasons follow:

because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently;
that is, a sufficient number of them were not sanctified, to slay all the passover lambs the people that came to the feast would want:

neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem;
they had no notice of it, nor summons for it; and it was required that, at such a time, all the males in the land should appear at Jerusalem; but this custom having been long disused, it required time to acquaint them of the revival of it.

Lìdaìzhìxià 30:3 In-Context

1 Xīxījiā chāiqiǎn rén qù jiàn Yǐsèliè hé Yóudà zhòngrén , yòu xiĕ xìn gĕi Yǐfǎlián hé Mǎnáxī rén , jiào tāmen dào Yēlùsǎlĕng Yēhéhuá de diàn , xiàng Yēhéhuá Yǐsèliè de shén shǒu Yúyuèjié .

2 Yīnwei wáng hé zhòng shǒulǐng , bìng Yēlùsǎlĕng quánhuì zhòng yǐjing shāngyì , yào zaì èr yuè neì shǒu Yúyuèjié .

3 Zhēngyuè ( yuánwén zuò nàshí ) jiān tāmen bùnéng shǒu . yīnwei zì jié de jìsī shàng bù fū yòng , bǎixìng yĕ méiyǒu jùjí zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng .

4 Wáng yǔ quánhuì zhòng dōu yǐ zhè shì wéi shàn .

5 Yúshì déng le mìnglìng , chuán biàn Yǐsèliè , cóng Bièshìbā zhídào dàn , shǐ tāmen dōu lái , zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng xiàng Yēhéhuá Yǐsèliè de shén shǒu Yúyuèjié . yīnwei zhào suǒ xiĕ de lì , shǒu zhè jié de bù duō le ( huò zuò yīnwei mín xǔjiǔ méiyǒu zhào suǒ xiĕ de lì shǒu jié le ) .