1Moreover 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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And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. …
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-19)The destruction which Josiah made of idols and idolatry was more largely related in the Kings , but just mentioned here in the foregoing chapter (2 Chron. 34:33); but his solemnizing the passover, which was touched upon there (2 Kgs. 23:21), is very particularly related here. Many were the feasts of the Lord, appointed by the ceremonial law, but the passover was the chief. It began them all in the…
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