21And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. …
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. …
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. …
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: …
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-24)We have here an account of such a reformation as we have not met with in all the history of the kings of Judah, such thorough riddance made of all the abominable things and such foundations laid of a glorious good work; and here I cannot but wonder at two things:—1. That so many wicked things should have got in, and kept standing so long, as we find here removed. 2. That notwithstanding the remova…
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