2 Chronicles 30:17 BSB

2 Chronicles 30:17

Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.

BSB

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ASV

For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

KJV

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They also assisted more than the law ordinarily allowed in offering the other sacrifices, particularly those that were for the purifying of the unclean, many of which there was now occasion for. Some think that it was the offerers' work, not the priests', that the Levites had here the charge of.

Voices on this verse

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Hebraic traditional view

The Passover held a month late

Hezekiah's great Passover is kept in the SECOND month, and that is not an irregularity he invented: the Law itself provides a one-month make-up date for those unclean or far off (Numbers 9:10–11, the “Second Passover”). Hezekiah applies the provision nationally because the priests and the people could not be ready in time. Notice the chapter's heart: many northerners ate the Passover ritually unclean, and the king prays for them, “may the good LORD pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God,” and the LORD heals the people. The feast's paperwork bends; the seeking heart is heard.

Sources: Numbers 9:10–11 (the Second-Passover provision) · Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (the provision in the oral law)

Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
רַבַּ֥ת	ra.Bat	many	H7227 →
בַּקָּהָ֖ל	ba.ka.Hal	among the assembly	H6951 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
הִתְקַדָּ֑שׁוּ	hit.ka.Da.shu	they had consecrated themselves	H6942 →
וְהַלְוִיִּ֞ם	ve.hal.vi.Yim	and the Levites	H3881 →
עַל־	'al-	[were] over	H5921 →
שְׁחִיטַ֣ת	she.chi.Tat	[the] slaughter of	H7821 →
הַפְּסָחִ֗ים	ha.pe.sa.Chim	the passovers	H6453 →
לְכֹל֙	le.Khol	for every	H3605 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
טָה֔וֹר	ta.Hor	clean	H2889 →
לְהַקְדִּ֖ישׁ	le.hak.Dish	to consecrate [them]	H6942 →
לַיהוָֽה׃	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 12:6
You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
leads to
- Leviticus 23:5
  The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15–18
  And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- Numbers 28:16
  The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Numbers 9:1–3
  In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Numbers 9:11
  Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Through
2 Chronicles 29:34
However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had been consecrated. For the Levites had…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 35:11
  And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
- 2 Chronicles 30:3
  since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
- Numbers 18:6–7
  Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

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01Commentary

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The Passover held a month late

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 2 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 2 Chronicles