2 Chronicles 35:10

10 When the service had been prepared for, the priests ¹stood in their place, ²and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.

2 Chronicles 35:10 Meaning and 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 ) .

2 Chronicles 35:10 In-Context

8 And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.

9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.

10 When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.

11 And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.

12 And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 30:16
• 2. Ezra 6:18