19And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. …
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)Here we have, I. The Jews’ enemies made their friends. When they received this order from the king they came with as much haste to encourage and assist the work as their predecessors had done to put a stop to it, Ezra 4:23. What the king ordered they did, and, because they would not be thought to do it with reluctance, they did it speedily , Ezra 6:13. The king’s moderation made them, contrary to…
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