2 Chronicles 35:1
in 2 Chronicles 35Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
KJV
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 35
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD
on 2 Chronicles 35:1-3
Kings gives this Passover three verses, 2 Kings 23:21-23, and Chronicles gives it nineteen, the same expansion the book gave Hezekiah's Passover in chapter 30. From here the Levites' charge is teaching and service, the order David set right at 1 Chronicles 15:2.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Moreover, Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The Levites, the ministers or instructors of the people in all matters pertaining to the divine worship, were commanded (2Ch 35:3) to "put the holy ark in the house which Solomon did build." Their duty was to transport the ark from place to place according to circumstances.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And Josiah made the Passover sacrifice in Jerusalem since none of the wicked kings of Judah had made the Passover sacrifice according to its law.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֨עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he observed | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּ | yoshiyahu | Josiah | H2977 → | 53 times |
| בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם | virushalim | in Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
| פֶּ֖סַח | pesach | a passover | H6453 → | 49 times |
| לַיהוָ֑ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וַיִּשְׁחֲט֣וּ | vaiyishchatu | and people slaughtered | H7819 → | 81 times |
| הַפֶּ֔סַח | hapesach | the passover | H6453 → | 49 times |
| בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥ה | bearbaah | on [day] four- | H702 → | 318 times |
| עָשָׂ֖ר | ʾasar | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ | harishon | <the> first | H7223 → | 182 times |
וַיַּ֨עַשׂand he observed
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּJosiah
yoshiyahuH2977 →53 times
בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֛םin Jerusalem
virushalimH3389 →643 times
פֶּ֖סַחa passover
pesachH6453 →49 times
לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
וַיִּשְׁחֲט֣וּand people slaughtered
vaiyishchatuH7819 →81 times
הַפֶּ֔סַחthe passover
hapesachH6453 →49 times
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥הon [day] four-
bearbaahH702 →318 times
עָשָׂ֖רteen
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
לַחֹ֥דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃<the> first
harishonH7223 →182 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 12:6You 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.
it leads to
- Leviticus 23:5
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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;
- Leviticus 23:5
Through
Ezra 6:19On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
it leads to
- Exodus 12:6–36
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.
- Exodus 12:6–36
Through
Numbers 9:3You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
it leads to
- Exodus 12:6–11
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.
- 2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,
- Exodus 12:6–11
Where this verse is studied
About 2 Chronicles

Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonLate monarchyJosiahThe boy-king who found the book of the law in the temple, tore his clothes, and led Judah's last great reformation and Passover be…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.
