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(Comp. 2 Kings 23, 21-23.)<p>This event receives brief but emphatic notice in the short section of Kings which records it. The passage is freely copied in 3 Ezra 1:1-11. It is of peculiar importance, as giving a more complete representation of the Passover than the Pentateuchal data supply.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-1.htm">2 Chronicles 35:1</a></div><div class="verse">Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of the first month.</div>(1) <span class= "bld">Moreover.</span>—<span class= "ital">And.</span> The form of the Hebrew verb implies that this Passover was held subsequently to the renewal of the covenant; and <a href="/2_kings/23-23.htm" title="But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.">2Kings 23:23</a> fixes the date precisely as “the eighteenth year of king Josiah.”<p><span class= "bld">Kept.</span>—<span class= "ital">Made</span> (<a href="/2_chronicles/30-1.htm" title="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 to the LORD God of Israel.">2Chronicles 30:1</a>).<p><span class= "bld">On the fourteenth day of the first month.</span>—In strict accordance with the law. Hezekiah’s Passover was irregular in point of time (<a href="/2_chronicles/30-2.htm" title="For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.">2Chronicles 30:2</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/30-13.htm" title="And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.">2Chronicles 30:13</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-2.htm">2 Chronicles 35:2</a></div><div class="verse">And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,</div>(2) <span class= "bld">Set the priests in their charges.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">over their wards</span> (<a href="/2_chronicles/8-14.htm" title="And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.">2Chronicles 8:14</a>). The king appointed them to discharge their proper duties in connection with the rite.<p><span class= "bld">Encouraged them.</span>—By exhortation and instruction. (See an instance in <a href="/2_chronicles/29-5.htm" title="And said to them, Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.">2Chronicles 29:5</a> <span class= "ital">seq.</span>)<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-3.htm">2 Chronicles 35:3</a></div><div class="verse">And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; <i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> a burden upon <i>your</i> shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,</div>(3-6) The king’s charge to the Levites.<p>(3) <span class= "bld">The Levites that taught all Israel.</span>—In the law (<a href="/nehemiah/8-7.htm" title="Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.">Nehemiah 8:7</a>; comp. also <a href="/context/2_chronicles/17-8.htm" title="And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.">2Chronicles 17:8-9</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Which were holy unto the Lord.</span>—Separated to His service (<a href="/exodus/28-36.htm" title="And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and grave on it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.">Exodus 28:36</a>, “Holiness to the Lord,” the inscription on Aaron’s mitre),<p><span class= "bld">Put the holy ark in the house.</span>—This command implies that the ark had been removed from its place in the inner sanctuary. The removal probably took place under Manasseh or his son, with the object of saving the sacred symbol from profanation. Or perhaps the repair of the Temple under Josiah had necessitated such a step. A third explanation takes the words in the sense of “Let the ark be, where it stands, in its proper place. Do not give a thought to your ancient function of bearing it about; but set your minds upon present duties.” This, however, is too artificial.<p><span class= "bld">It shall not be a burden.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">hearing on the shoulder is not for you.</span> (Comp. the like statement in <a href="/1_chronicles/23-26.htm" title="And also to the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.">1Chronicles 23:26</a>; see also <a href="/numbers/4-15.htm" title="And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.">Numbers 4:15</a>; <a href="/numbers/7-9.htm" title="But to the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them was that they should bear on their shoulders.">Numbers 7:9</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/15-2.htm" title="Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them has the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him for ever.">1Chronicles 15:2</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Serve now the Lord . . . and his people.</span>—In the manner indicated in <a href="/context/2_chronicles/35-4.htm" title="And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.">2Chronicles 35:4-6</a>.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-4.htm">2 Chronicles 35:4</a></div><div class="verse">And prepare <i>yourselves</i> by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.</div>(4) <span class= "bld">And prepare yourselves.</span>—The pronoun should not be italicised, for the verb is <span class= "ital">niphal</span> or reflexive, and not <span class= "ital">hiphil</span> or causative, as the Hebrew vowel points wrongly suggest.<p><span class= "bld">By the houses of your fathers.</span>—<span class= "ital">According to your father-houses.</span><p><span class= "bld">After your courses.</span>—<span class= "ital">In your divisions,</span> (See 1 Chronicles 13-26)<p><span class= "bld">According to the writing of David . . . Solomon his son.</span>—Comp. <a href="/1_chronicles/28-19.htm" title="All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand on me, even all the works of this pattern.">1Chronicles 28:19</a>, where David refers to such a writing. The words seem to imply the existence of written memorials of the regulations of public worship, which David and Solomon instituted.<p>(“Writing of David” is k<span class= "ital">ĕthâb,</span> a word only found in Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel and Esther. “Writing of Solomon” is <span class= "ital">miktab;</span> see <a href="/exodus/32-16.htm" title="And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven on the tables.">Exodus 32:16</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-5.htm">2 Chronicles 35:5</a></div><div class="verse">And stand in the holy <i>place</i> according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and <i>after</i> the division of the families of the Levites.</div>(5) <span class= "bld">Stand in the holy place.</span>—In the Temple court.<p><span class= "bld">According to the divisions . . . the Levites.</span>—Rather, <span class= "ital">according to the sections of the father-houses of your brethren the sons of the people</span> (as opposed to “the sons of Levi”); <span class= "ital">and, in fact, a portion of a father-house of the Levites;</span> scil., beside every entire father-house of laymen. The Levites were to slay and skin the lambs, and hand the blood to the priests, and to give their share of the roasted flesh to the people (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/35-11.htm" title="And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.">2Chronicles 35:11-12</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-6.htm">2 Chronicles 35:6</a></div><div class="verse">So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that <i>they</i> may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</div>(6) <span class= "bld">And sanctify yourselves.</span>—Probably by washing the hands before handing the blood of sprinkling to the priests. (See <a href="/2_chronicles/30-16.htm" title="And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.">2Chronicles 30:16</a> <span class= "ital">seq.</span>)<p><span class= "bld">Prepare your brethren.</span>—Prepare (the passover) <span class= "ital">for your brethren of</span> the laity.<p><span class= "bld">That they may do.</span>—<span class= "ital">So as to do.</span> The Levites themselves are to obey the prescriptions of the Mosaic Law.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm">2 Chronicles 35:7</a></div><div class="verse">And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these <i>were</i> of the king's substance.</div>(7-9) The king and the grandees present the victims. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/30-24.htm" title="For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.">2Chronicles 30:24</a>.)<p>(7) <span class= "bld">Josiah gave.</span>—As in <a href="/2_chronicles/30-24.htm" title="For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.">2Chronicles 30:24</a>, <span class= "ital">presented as a heave-offering.</span><p><span class= "bld">To the people.</span>—<span class= "ital">To the sons of the people; i.e.,</span> the laity.<p><span class= "bld">Of the flock.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">small cattle, to wit, lambs and sons of goats.</span><p><span class= "bld">All for the passover offerings</span>—<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> the thirty thousand small cattle.<p><span class= "bld">Three thousand bullocks.</span>—For the peace-offerings and the sacrificial feasting (<a href="/2_chronicles/35-13.htm" title="And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.">2Chronicles 35:13</a>).<p><span class= "bld">The king’s substance.</span>—<a href="/2_chronicles/31-3.htm" title="He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.">2Chronicles 31:3</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/32-29.htm" title="Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.">2Chronicles 32:29</a>.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-8.htm">2 Chronicles 35:8</a></div><div class="verse">And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred <i>small cattle</i>, and three hundred oxen.</div>(8) <span class= "bld">And his princes . . . Levites.</span>—<span class= "ital">And his princes for a free-will offering</span> (<a href="/leviticus/7-16.htm" title="But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:">Leviticus 7:16</a>) <span class= "ital">to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites had presented</span> heave-offerings. How many victims they gave is not specified. Some words may have fallen out of the text. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/30-24.htm" title="For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.">2Chronicles 30:24</a>.) Hilkiah is introduced quite abruptly in the text as it stands.<p><span class= "bld">Rulers of the house of God.</span>—<a href="/2_chronicles/31-13.htm" title="And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.">2Chronicles 31:13</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/9-11.htm" title="And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;">1Chronicles 9:11</a>. Hilkiah was high priest (<a href="/2_chronicles/34-9.htm" title="And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.">2Chronicles 34:9</a>); Zechariah perhaps his deputy, “the second priest” (<a href="/2_kings/25-18.htm" title="And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:">2Kings 25:18</a>); Jehiel may have been the head of the line of Ithamar, which still existed even after the return (<a href="/ezra/8-2.htm" title="Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.">Ezra 8:2</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Oxen,</span> <span class= "ital">i.e., </span>“bullocks” (<a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm" title="And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.">2Chronicles 35:7</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-9.htm">2 Chronicles 35:9</a></div><div class="verse">Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand <i>small cattle</i>, and five hundred oxen.</div>(9) <span class= "bld">Conaniah also</span> . . . <span class= "bld">Jozabad.</span>—The three names Conaniah, Shemaiah, and Jozabad, occurred as belonging to principal Levites under Hezekiah (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/31-12.htm" title="And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.">2Chronicles 31:12-15</a>). They may be names of leading houses rather than persons.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-10.htm">2 Chronicles 35:10</a></div><div class="verse">So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.</div>(10) <span class= "bld">So the service was prepared.</span>—The preparations were completed. (See <a href="/2_chronicles/35-4.htm" title="And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.">2Chronicles 35:4</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/35-16.htm" title="So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.">2Chronicles 35:16</a>)<p><span class= "bld">In their place.</span>—<span class= "ital">On their stand</span> (<a href="/2_chronicles/30-16.htm" title="And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.">2Chronicles 30:16</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-11.htm">2 Chronicles 35:11</a></div><div class="verse">And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled <i>the blood</i> from their hands, and the Levites flayed <i>them</i>.</div>(11) <span class= "bld">The passover.</span>—The paschal victims.<p><span class= "bld">From their hands.</span>—Heb., <span class= "ital">hand.</span> The hand of the Levites, who caught the blood when they slaughtered the victims, and gave it to the priests.<p><span class= "bld">Flayed.</span>—<span class= "ital">Were flaying.</span>—The exception of <a href="/2_chronicles/30-17.htm" title="For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.">2Chronicles 30:17</a> has become the rule here.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-12.htm">2 Chronicles 35:12</a></div><div class="verse">And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as <i>it is</i> written in the book of Moses. And so <i>did they</i> with the oxen.</div>(12) <span class= "bld">They removed.</span>—Cut off those parts of the victims which had to be consumed on the altar of burnt offering. (Comp. <a href="/leviticus/3-9.htm" title="And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,">Leviticus 3:9</a>; <a href="/leviticus/4-31.htm" title="And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet smell to the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.">Leviticus 4:31</a>.) These parts are naturally called “the burnt offering,” although no special burnt offering was appointed for the evening of the Passover.<p><span class= "bld">That they might give . . . people.</span>—To <span class= "ital">give them to the sections of the father-houses of the sons of the people.</span> After separating the proper pieces, the Levites gave them to the sections which they were serving, to be presented in turn to the priests for burning on the altar.<p><span class= "bld">To Offer.</span>—<span class= "ital">Haqrîb;</span> as in <a href="/leviticus/3-9.htm" title="And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,">Leviticus 3:9</a>; <a href="/leviticus/3-14.htm" title="And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire to the LORD; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,">Leviticus 3:14</a>.<p><span class= "bld">As it is written.</span>—Referring to the rule that “all the fat is the Lord’s” (<a href="/leviticus/3-16.htm" title="And the priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the LORD's.">Leviticus 3:16</a>).<p><span class= "bld">And so did they.</span>—<span class= "ital">And so for the oxen.</span> The proper portions of these also were separated for consumption on the brazen altar; the rest of the carcases furnished food for the sacrificial festivities.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-13.htm">2 Chronicles 35:13</a></div><div class="verse">And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the <i>other</i> holy <i>offerings</i> sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided <i>them</i> speedily among all the people.</div>(13) <span class= "bld">According to the ordinance.</span>—<a href="/context/exodus/12-8.htm" title="And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.">Exodus 12:8-9</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Boasted with fire.</span>—<span class= "ital">Cooked in the fire.</span><p><span class= "bld">But the other holy offerings sod they . . . pans.</span>—<span class= "ital">And the consecrated things they cooked in the pots, and in the caldrons, and in the pans.</span>—“The consecrated things” are the oxen (<a href="/2_chronicles/29-33.htm" title="And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.">2Chronicles 29:33</a>). Their flesh was boiled or fried, and handed with all due haste by the Levites to the laity.<p>The author tells us here not only what was done on the evening of the fourteenth Nisan, the Passover proper, but also during the seven following days of the Feast of Mazzoth, or Unleavened Bread. On the Passover evening only the paschal lambs and kids would be eaten; the oxen were slain as peace offerings during the subsequent festivities (<a href="/context/deuteronomy/16-1.htm" title="Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.">Deuteronomy 16:1-8</a>), and furnished forth the sacrificial meals.<p><span class= "bld">And divided them speedily . . . the people.</span>—<span class= "ital">And brought them quickly to all the sons of the people,</span> so that the meat did not get cold. (Comp. <a href="/genesis/41-14.htm" title="Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh.">Genesis 41:14</a>.) This little touch of realism calls up a picture. We see the whole busy scene, the different groups of the people scattered here and there about the sacred court, and the Levites bringing them their portions of the savoury meat.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-14.htm">2 Chronicles 35:14</a></div><div class="verse">And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron <i>were busied</i> in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.</div>(14) <span class= "bld">Afterward.</span>—After serving the laity with their passover.<p><span class= "bld">They made ready.</span>—The Passover (<a href="/context/luke/22-8.htm" title="And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.">Luke 22:8-9</a>; <a href="/luke/22-13.htm" title="And they went, and found as he had said to them: and they made ready the passover.">Luke 22:13</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Because the priests . . . until night.</span>—The reason why the Levites prepared the Passover and the after meals for them.<p><span class= "bld">In offering of burnt offerings and the fat.</span>—<span class= "ital">In offering the burnt offering and the pieces of</span> <span class= "ital">fat.</span> The second phrase seems to define the first (<span class= "ital">and, i.e., namely</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> The parts of the sheep, goats, and oxen, which in case of peace offerings had to be burnt wholly on the altar were called <span class= "ital">hălābîm,</span> “pieces of fat.”<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-15.htm">2 Chronicles 35:15</a></div><div class="verse">And the singers the sons of Asaph <i>were</i> in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters <i>waited</i> at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.</div>(15) <span class= "bld">And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place.</span>—“At their post” or station (<a href="/1_chronicles/23-28.htm" title="Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;">1Chronicles 23:28</a>). The “sons” of Heman and Jeduthun are omitted for brevity.<p><span class= "bld">According to the commandment . . . king’s seer.</span>—Comp. <a href="/context/1_chronicles/25-1.htm" title="Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:">1Chronicles 25:1-6</a>.<p><span class= "bld">They might not depart.</span>—Rather, <span class= "ital">they had no need to depart from their service</span> (<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> to leave their posts), in order to prepare their own passover and the subsequent meals, “for their brethren the Levites had prepared for them,” and brought it to them at their several stations.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-16.htm">2 Chronicles 35:16</a></div><div class="verse">So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.</div>(16) <span class= "bld">The same day.</span>—On <span class= "ital">that day,</span> i.e., “at that time”(<a href="/2_chronicles/35-17.htm" title="And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.">2Chronicles 35:17</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">To offer burnt offerings.</span>—To burn the fat of the Passover victims, and of the peace offerings. The verse summarises the foregoing account. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/35-10.htm" title="So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.">2Chronicles 35:10</a>.)<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-17.htm">2 Chronicles 35:17</a></div><div class="verse">And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.</div><span class= "bld">CHARACTER OF THE PASSOVER THUS HELD, AND ITS DATE</span> (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/35-17.htm" title="And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.">2Chronicles 35:17-19</a>).<p>(17) <span class= "bld">At that time.</span>—The Passover was kept on the evening of the 14th Nisan, and the Mazzoth from the 15th to the 21st of the same month.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-18.htm">2 Chronicles 35:18</a></div><div class="verse">And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</div>(18) <span class= "bld">And there was no Passover like to that.</span>—<a href="/2_kings/23-22.htm" title="Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;">2Kings 23:22</a>.<p><span class= "bld">From the days of Samuel the prophet</span>—Kings, “from the days of the judges that judged Israel,” of whom Samuel was the last and greatest (<a href="/1_samuel/7-15.htm" title="And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.">1Samuel 7:15</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Neither did all the kings of Israel.</span>—Kings, “and (from) all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.” (Comp. 2chron xxx 26).<p><span class= "bld">And the priests . . . Jerusalem.</span>—Not in Kings. A characteristic addition.<p><span class= "bld">Israel that were present.</span>—Rather, <span class= "ital">Israel that was present, i.e.,</span> the remnant who had come from the ruined kingdom of the ten tribes. (Comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/34-33.htm" title="And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.">2Chronicles 34:33</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-19.htm">2 Chronicles 35:19</a></div><div class="verse">In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.</div>(19) <span class= "bld">In the eighteenth year.</span>—<a href="/2_kings/23-23.htm" title="But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.">2Kings 23:23</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Kept.</span>—<span class= "ital">Made</span> (<span class= "ital">na’asāh</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> For the date, comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/34-8.htm" title="Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.">2Chronicles 34:8</a>. The religious reformation appropriately <span class= "ital">culminated</span> in a splendid celebration of the Passover.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">2 Chronicles 35:20</a></div><div class="verse">After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.</div><span class= "bld">JOSIAH SLAIN IN BATTLE AGAINST NECHO KING OF EGYPT</span> (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/35-20.htm" title="After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.">2Chronicles 35:20-27</a>. Comp. <a href="/context/2_kings/23-29.htm" title="In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.">2Kings 23:29-30</a>; 3 Ezra 1:23-30).<p>(20) <span class= "bld">After all this.</span>—Comp. the similar, “after these matters, and this faithfulness” (<a href="/2_chronicles/32-1.htm" title="After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.">2Chronicles 32:1</a>). The phrase calls attention to the difference between the event and what might naturally have been expected. In spite of Josiah’s fidelity to Jehovah, <span class= "ital">this</span> was his end.<p><span class= "bld">Necho king of Egypt came up.</span>—Kings, “In his days came up Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt.” So LXX. here. Syriac, “Pharaoh the Lame, king of Egypt.” <span class= "ital">Pharaoh</span> is simply “the king;” Coptic <span class= "ital">Pouro,</span> or <span class= "ital">Perro</span> (<span class= "ital">pi</span> “the,” <span class= "ital">ouro</span> or <span class= "ital">r</span>̄<span class= "ital">ro,</span> “king”). The Hebrew spelling <span class= "ital">Pa’rōh</span> appears to be due to an assimilation of the Egyptian word to the Hebrew <span class= "ital">pĕrā’ôth,</span> “leaders” (<a href="/judges/5-1.htm" title="Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,">Judges 5:1</a>). An inscription of Assurbanipal gives a list of twenty subject kings appointed by Esarhaddon his father to bear rule in Egypt, the first name in the list being that of <span class= "ital">“Nikû sar ali Mimpi u ali Sâa,” i.e.,</span> “Necho, king of the city of Memphis, and the city of Sais.” Assurbanipal twice reinstated this Necho (Necho I., circ. 664 B.C. ) after vanquishing Tirhakah.<p>The Necho of our text is Necho II., who reigned circ. 610 B.C. (See the Note on <a href="/2_kings/23-29.htm" title="In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.">2Kings 23:29</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Against Charchemish.</span>—<span class= "ital">At Charchemish.</span> Syriac and Arabic, “to assault Mabûg,” <span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> Hierapolis. Necho’s enemy was “the king of Assyria” (<a href="/2_kings/23-29.htm" title="In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.">2Kings 23:29</a>; so LXX. here), <span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> Esarhaddon II. (Saracus), the last of the rulers of Nineveh; not Nabopalassar, king of Babylon, for the Assyrian empire had not yet fallen before the united assault of the Medes and the Babylonians. Charchemish has been identified with the modern <span class= "ital">Jirbâs,</span> on the western bank of the middle Euphrates. Its situation, as Schrader observes, suits an intended expedition against Nineveh and Assyria, rather than against Babylon. It was one of the great Hittite capitals, and inscriptions in hieroglyphics, similar to those of Hamath, have recently been disinterred on the site, and brought thence to the British Museum. The name means, “Fortress of Mîsh.” Comp. “Mesha” (<a href="/genesis/10-30.htm" title="And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east.">Genesis 10:30</a>), the Assyrian <span class= "ital">Masu, i.e.,</span> the part of the Syrian desert which ran along the right bank of the Euphrates. The place was also called <span class= "ital">Tel-Mîsh,</span> “mound of Mîsh;” Greek, <span class= "greekheb">Τελμησσός</span><span class= "ital">.</span> (Thenius thinks the phrase, “against Charchemish,” was originally a marginal gloss, noting the place of the final and decisive encounter between Necho and the Babylonians).<p><span class= "bld">Josiah went out against him.</span>—To this statement Kings only adds that Necho “slew him at Me-giddo, when he saw him,” <span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> at the outset of the encounter. The chronicler, therefore, has derived the details of the following verses from another source (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/35-21.htm" title="But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear you from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy you not.">2Chronicles 35:21-25</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-21.htm">2 Chronicles 35:21</a></div><div class="verse">But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? <i>I come</i> not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from <i>meddling with</i> God, who <i>is</i> with me, that he destroy thee not.</div>(21) <span class= "bld">But</span> . . . <span class= "bld">ambassadors.</span>—<span class= "ital">And</span> . . . <span class= "ital">messengers.</span><p><span class= "bld">What have I to do with thee</span>?—Literally, <span class= "ital">what</span> <span class= "ital">to me and to thee? </span><span class= "greekheb">Τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί</span><span class= "ital">;</span> (LXX.; and <a href="/mark/5-7.htm" title="And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the most high God? I adjure you by God, that you torment me not.">Mark 5:7</a>; <a href="/luke/8-28.htm" title="When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God most high? I beseech you, torment me not.">Luke 8:28</a>).<p><span class= "bld">I come not against thee.</span>—So the old versions. The Hebrew is, “not against thee—thee—to-day,” The versions appear to have read <span class= "ital">‘attāh,</span> “thee,” with different points as <span class= "ital">‘ôtheh,</span> “coming.” (Comp. Syriac, <span class= "ital">ôthê ‘nû,</span> “come I.”)<p><span class= "bld">But against the house</span> <span class= "bld">. . .</span> <span class= "bld">war.</span>—A strange expression. (Comp. <a href="/1_chronicles/18-10.htm" title="He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.">1Chronicles 18:10</a>.) Probably the reading indicated by 3 Esdr. 1:25 is right (<span class= "greekheb">ὲπὶ γὰρ τοῡ Εὐφράτου δ πόλεμος μοῡ ἐστί</span>)<span class= "ital">,</span> “but against the Euphrates is my war” (<span class= "ital">Perath</span> for <span class= "ital">bêth</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> Josephus supports this. LXX. and Syriac omit; Vulg., “sed contra allain pugno domum.”<p><span class= "bld">For God</span> <span class= "bld">. . .</span> <span class= "bld">haste.</span>—<span class= "ital">And God . . .</span> The Egyptian kings, like those of Israel, consulted their prophets before undertaking any expedition. So did the Assyrians, as abundantly appears from their inscriptions. So, too, we read on the Moabite stone, “Chemosh said unto me, Go; take Nebo . . . Go up against Horonaim, and take it.” These facts sufficiently explain the text, without assuming that Necho had received an oracle <span class= "ital">from Jehovah,</span> or was referring to the God of Israel. (Comp. Herod, ii. 158.)<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-22.htm">2 Chronicles 35:22</a></div><div class="verse">Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.</div>(22) <span class= "bld">But disguised himself.</span>—Like Ahab (<a href="/2_chronicles/18-29.htm" title="And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will go to the battle; but put you on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.">2Chronicles 18:29</a>). The LXX. reads, “he strengthened himself,” or “persisted” (<span class= "greekheb">ἐκραταιώθη</span>)<span class= "ital">.</span> (Comp. 3 Esdr. 1:28.) This implies the reading <span class= "ital">hithchazzaq</span> instead of <span class= "ital">hithchappêsh.</span> It is wholly unlikely that “disguised himself” is used in the figurative sense of “departed from his true cha racter,” as Keil and Zöckler think.<p><span class= "bld">The words of Necho from the mouth of God.</span>—The warning of Necho was really divine, as the event proved. For “words of Necho,” 3 Esdr. 1:26 has, “words of the prophet Jeremiah;” but there is no trace of such a warning in the extant prophecies bearing his name.<p><span class= "bld">In the valley of Megiddo.</span>—The valley of the Kishon, where Deborah and Barak had fought in the olden time against Jabin and Sisera. Herodotus (ii. 159) calls the place Magdolus. (See on <a href="/2_kings/23-29.htm" title="In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.">2Kings 23:29</a>.)<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-23.htm">2 Chronicles 35:23</a></div><div class="verse">And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.</div>(23) <span class= "bld">And the archers shot.</span>—Comp. the death of Ahab (<a href="/2_chronicles/18-33.htm" title="And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn your hand, that you may carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.">2Chronicles 18:33</a>, and of Saul, <a href="/1_chronicles/10-3.htm" title="And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.">1Chronicles 10:3</a>).<p><span class= "bld">Have me away.</span>—LXX., <span class= "greekheb">Ἐξαγάγετέ με</span>. “Take me out” (of the war-chariot).<p><span class= "bld">For I am sore wounded.</span>—So Ahab. (<a href="/2_chronicles/18-33.htm" title="And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn your hand, that you may carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.">2Chronicles 18:33</a>).<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-24.htm">2 Chronicles 35:24</a></div><div class="verse">His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in <i>one of</i> the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.</div>(24) <span class= "bld">That chariot.</span>—<span class= "ital">The</span> (war) <span class= "ital">chariot.</span><p><span class= "bld">Put him.</span>—<span class= "ital">Made him ride.</span><p><span class= "bld">Brought him to Jerusalem, and he died.</span>—<a href="/2_kings/23-30.htm" title="And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.">2Kings 23:30</a> says: “And his servants made him ride dead (or <span class= "ital">dying</span>) from Megiddo.’ Even if it be not permissible to render <span class= "ital">mêth</span> “dying,” we cannot agree with the suggestion of Thenius that the account of Chronicles is simply an arbitrary alteration of the older narrative for the sake of literary effect. The divergence proves that the chronicler had special sources of information at his command.<p><span class= "bld">The second chariot</span> was no doubt a more comfortable one, reserved in case of such an emergency.<p><span class= "bld">In one of the sepulchres.</span>—Omit <span class= "ital">one of.</span> Kings, “in his own sepulchre,” which would be a chamber among those of his immediate ancestors, Manasseh and Amon. (See <a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm" title="And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.">2Kings 21:18</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">Mourned.</span>—<span class= "ital">Were mourning.</span><p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-25.htm">2 Chronicles 35:25</a></div><div class="verse">And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they <i>are</i> written in the lamentations.</div>(25) <span class= "bld">And Jeremiah lamented</span>—<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> wrote a dirge. The special mourning of the land over Josiah is not mentioned in Kings.<p><span class= "bld">The singing men . . . women.</span>—The LXX. has “the ruling men . . . women,” reading <span class= "ital">sārîm</span> . . . <span class= "ital">sārôth,</span> instead of <span class= "ital">shārîm . . .</span> <span class= "ital">shārôth.</span><p><span class= "bld">Spake of Josiah in their lamentations.</span>—In the dirges which they used to sing on certain anniversaries of disaster.<p><span class= "bld">And made them an ordinance.</span>—<span class= "ital">And they made them</span> (<span class= "ital">i.e.</span> the laments for Josiah) <span class= "ital">a standing custom to Israel.</span><p><span class= "bld">They are written in the lamentations.</span>—The dirges alluding to Josiah’s untimely end, and among them Jeremiah’s, were preserved in a Book of Dirges (<span class= "ital">qînôth</span>)<span class= "ital">,</span> which may have been extant in the chronicler’s day. (Comp. the allusions in <a href="/jeremiah/22-10.htm" title="Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.">Jeremiah 22:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/22-18.htm" title="Therefore thus said the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!">Jeremiah 22:18</a>; <a href="/zechariah/12-11.htm" title="In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.">Zechariah 12:11</a>.)<p>This collection, however, was quite different from the canonical book of Lamentations, the subject of which is the ruin of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans.<p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/35-26.htm">2 Chronicles 35:26</a></div><div class="verse">Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to <i>that which was</i> written in the law of the LORD,</div>(26) <span class= "bld">His goodness.</span>—<span class= "ital">His pious deeds</span> (<a href="/2_chronicles/32-32.htm" title="Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.">2Chronicles 32:32</a>).<p><span class= "bld">According to that . . . the Lord.</span>—Said of no king besides.<p><span class= "bld">The book . . . and Judah.</span>—<a href="/2_kings/23-28.htm" title="Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?">2Kings 23:28</a>, “the Book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.”<p> <div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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