2 Chronicles 35:7-17

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, ¹the officials of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 * from the flocks and 300 * bulls.

9 ²Conaniah 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 ³the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

11 ⁴They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while ⁵the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, ⁶the 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.

13 So ⁷they roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled ⁸the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people.

14 Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

15 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations ⁹according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and ¹⁰the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah.

17 Thus ¹¹the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

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2 Chronicles 35:7-17 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 11

1. 2 Chronicles 31:13
2. 2 Chronicles 31:12
3. 2 Chronicles 35:5
4. 2 Chronicles 35:1, 6
5. 2 Chronicles 29:22
6. 2 Chronicles 29:34
7. Exodus 12:8, 9
8. Leviticus 6:28
9. 1 Chronicles 25:1
10. 1 Chronicles 26:12-19
11. Exodus 12:1-20; 2 Chronicles 30:21

Footnotes 2

[a]. I.e. the Levites
[b]. So with Gr