2 Chronicles 35:5-6

5 "Moreover, ¹stand 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 ²slaughter the Passover animals, ³sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."

2 Chronicles 35:5-6 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.

Cross References

• 1. Ezra 6:18
• 2. 2 Chronicles 35:1
• 3. 2 Chronicles 29:5

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "sons of the people," and so throughout the ch