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2 Chronicles 35:10-20

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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.
11 3And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests 4threw the blood that they received from them 5while 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.
13 6And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they 7boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
14 And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
15 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place 8according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's 9seer; 10and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
17 And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, 11and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
18 12No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

Josiah Killed in Battle

20 13After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at 14Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
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2 Chronicles 35:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 35

In this chapter we have an account of the keeping of the passover and its preparation, for which the priests and Levites were ordered to prepare, and to which Josiah, and his princes, gave liberally, and such an one was kept as had not been for ages past, 2Ch 35:1-19, and of Josiah's rash engagement in battle with the king of Egypt, in which he was slain, 2Ch 35:20-23 and of the great lamentations that were made for him, 2Ch 35:24-27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 30:16
  • 2. Ezra 6:18
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 30:15; Ezra 6:20
  • 4. See 2 Chronicles 29:22
  • 5. [2 Chronicles 29:34]
  • 6. Exodus 12:8, 9; Deuteronomy 16:7
  • 7. [1 Samuel 2:13-15]
  • 8. See 1 Chronicles 25
  • 9. See 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 10. See 1 Chronicles 9:17-29; 1 Chronicles 26:1-19
  • 11. See 2 Chronicles 30:21
  • 12. 2 Kings 23:22, 23
  • 13. 2 Kings 23:29, 30
  • 14. [Jeremiah 46:2]
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