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2 Chronicles 35:1

in 2 Chronicles 35

Then 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.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 35

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This 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 & Brown

1802–1910

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.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 35:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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 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.

  • 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 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

    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.

    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;

  • Through

    Ezra 6:19

    On 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.

  • Through

    Numbers 9:3

    You 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,

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

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.