2 Koningen 23:22

22 Want gelijk dit pascha was er geen gehouden, van de dagen der richteren af, die Israel gericht hadden, noch in al de dagen der koningen van Israel, noch der koningen van Juda.

2 Koningen 23:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:22

Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of
the judges that judged Israel
As the king commanded; the people obeyed and kept the passover, according to the law of the Lord; the manner of its being kept is not here recorded, but is at large in ( 2 Chronicles 35:1-19 ) where it is observed there had not been such an one from the days of Samuel, the last of the judges; so that the days of the judges here mean the last days of them:

nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
since the division of the kingdoms; for as for the kings of Israel, they kept it not; and though it was observed in the times of Hezekiah king of Judah, yet not universally, and by some in their uncleanness; for it is a mistake of Clemens of Alexandria ^F23, that it was not kept in the times between Samuel and Josiah; in the days of David and Solomon it might be kept by greater numbers, but not with such purity, and with such cheerfulness and joy of heart, or with so many other sacrifices attending it, or so exactly agreeable to the law of God, and with such munificence and liberality; the king, and the chief of the priests and Levites, providing out of their own substance for the people and their brethren.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Stromat. l. 1. p. 328.

2 Koningen 23:22 In-Context

20 En hij slachtte al de priesteren der hoogten, die daar waren, op de altaren, en verbrandde mensenbeenderen op dezelve. Daarna keerde hij weder naar Jeruzalem.

21 En de koning gebood het ganse volk, zeggende: Houdt den HEERE, uw God, pascha, gelijk in dit boek des verbonds geschreven is

22 Want gelijk dit pascha was er geen gehouden, van de dagen der richteren af, die Israel gericht hadden, noch in al de dagen der koningen van Israel, noch der koningen van Juda.

23 Maar in het achttiende jaar van den koning Josia, werd dit pascha den HEERE te Jeruzalem gehouden.

24 En ook deed Josia weg de waarzeggers, en de duivelskunstenaars, en de terafim, en de drekgoden, en alle verfoeiselen, die in het land van Juda en in Jeruzalem gezien werden; opdat hij bevestigde de woorden der wet, die geschreven waren in het boek, dat de priester Hilkia in het huis des HEEREN gevonden had.