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2 Chronicles 35:2-12

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2 He set the priests in their offices and 1encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.
3 He also said to 2the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; 3it will be a burden on your shoulders no longer. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.
4 "4Prepare yourselves by your fathers' households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and 5according to the writing of his son Solomon.
5 "Moreover, 6stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers' households of your brethren the lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father's household.
6 "Now 7slaughter the Passover animals, 8sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."
7 Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young * goats *, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 * plus 3,000 * bulls; these were from the king's possessions.
8 His officers also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, 9the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 * from the flocks and 300 * bulls.
9 10Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the officers of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 * from the flocks and 500 * bulls.
10 So the service was prepared, and 11the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.
11 12They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while 13the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, 14the Levites skinned them.
12 Then they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the sections of the fathers' households of the lay people to present to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did this also with the bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:2-12 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 29:11
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 17:8, 9; Nehemiah 8:7
  • 3. 1 Chronicles 23:26
  • 4. 1 Chronicles 9:10-13
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 8:14
  • 6. Ezra 6:18
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 35:1
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 29:5
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 31:13
  • 10. 2 Chronicles 31:12
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 35:5
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 35:1, 6
  • 13. 2 Chronicles 29:22
  • 14. 2 Chronicles 29:34

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Lit "sons of the people," and so throughout the ch
  • [b]. I.e. the Levites
  • [c]. So with Gr
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