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2 Chronicles 35:11

in 2 Chronicles 35

And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

KJV

And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

They killed the passover - The people themselves might slay their own paschal lambs, and then present the blood to the priests, that they might sprinkle it before the altar; and the Levites flayed them, and made them ready for dressing.

This site's exposition

the priests stood in their place

on 2 Chronicles 35:10-11

The Passover runs by a stated division of labor. The priests stand in their places and sprinkle the blood, and the Levites slaughter and skin the animals a family would ordinarily prepare for itself. Here the assignments match the divisions from the writing of David and Solomon in verse 4.

This site's exposition

the Levites skinned the animals

The subject of the first verb is left open. Adam Clarke allows that the people may have killed their own lambs, while John Gill assigns the killing to the Levites, as verse 6 commands. The skinning belonged to the Levites, the task they took up at Hezekiah's feast in 29:34.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they killed the passover,.... The lambs for the passover, which was done by the Levites: and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands; which they received from the Levites, see 2Ch 30:16. and the Levites flayed them; the passover lambs, took off their skins.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּand they slaughtered

    vaiyishchatuH7819 →81 times

  • הַפָּ֑סַחthe passover

    hapasachH6453 →49 times

  • וַיִּזְרְק֤וּand they sprinkled

    vaiyizrekuH2236 →35 times

  • הַכֹּהֲנִים֙the priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • מִיָּדָ֔םfrom hand their

    miyadamH3027 →1618 times

  • וְהַלְוִיִּ֖םand the Levites

    vehalviyimH3881 →291 times

  • מַפְשִׁיטִֽים׃[were] skinning [them]

    mafshitimH6584 →43 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Numbers 18:3

    And they shall attend to your duties and to all the duties of the Tent; but they must not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar, or both they and…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 4:15

      When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they…

    • Numbers 3:25

      The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    • Numbers 4:19–20

      In order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his…

    • Numbers 3:31

      Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.

    • Numbers 3:36

      The duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,

  • 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…

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • 2 Chronicles 30:16–17

      They stood at their prescribed posts, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.

    • 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.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).