2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. …
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. …
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Here is, I. A passover resolved upon. That annual feast was instituted as a memorial of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt. It happened that the reviving of the temple service fell within the appointed days of that feast, the seventeenth day of the first month: this brought that forgotten solemnity to mind. “What shall we do,” says Hezekiah, “about the passover? It is a very comfo…
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