2 Chronicles 35:12

_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 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF MOSES. AND SO DID THEY WITH THE OXEN._ They removed the burnt offerings. Some of the small cattle, being designed for burnt offerings, were put apart by themselves, that they might not be intermingled with the paschal lambs, which were carefully selected to certain rules, and intended to be sacramentally eaten; and the manner in which those burnt offerings were presented seems to have been the following: 'All the subdivisions of the different fathers' houses came one after another to the altar in solemn procession, to bring the priests the portions which had been cut off, and the priests laid these pieces upon the fire of the altar of burnt offering.'...

1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord....

THEY REMOVED THE BURNT OFFERINGS - They separated from the Paschal lambs those parts which were to be burned on the altar. These parts they gave to the offerers, who took them up to the altar and handed them to the officiating priests....

EXPOSITION This chapter of twenty-seven Verses, occupied with the account of Josiah's great Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1), and his death in the battle of Megiddo, waged by Necho King of Egypt with "Carchemish by Euphrates" (2 Chronicles 35:20-14), is paralleled by the ten verses of 2 Kings 23:21-12. 2 CHRONICLES 35:1 THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH … OF THE FIRST MONTH;_ i.e. _on the day appointed originally (Exodus 12:6

AND THEY REMOVED THE BURNT OFFERINGS,.... Either such of the lambs and kids as were designed for burnt offerings for the people; these they separated from those that were for the passover; or they removed from them what was to be burnt, the fat of the inwards, of the kidneys, and the caul on the liver: THAT THEY MIGHT GIVE; the rest for the passover: ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE, TO OFFER UNTO THE LORD; according to the number of them: AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF MOSES; see Leviticus 3:3, AND SO DID THEY WITH THE OXEN; such of them as were appointed for burnt offerings were set apart by themselves, and such as were for peace offerings; what of them were to be burnt, as those before mentioned, were taken from them....

CHAPTER 35 THE KEEPING OF THE PASSOVER AND JOSIAH'S DEATH _ 1. The Passover kept (2 Chronicles 35:1)_ 2. The death of Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:20) In the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah, like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, kept the Passover. No doubt the reading of the law had made this feast once more an urgent necessity. Moreover they had made a solemn covenant “to walk after the LORD, to keep His commandments, His testimonies and His statutes, and to perform the words of the covenant written in the book.” Therefore in the appointed time, on the fourteenth day of the first month, they kept the memorial feast, the last before the house of Judah was carried into captivity. (Hezekiah's Passover was kept in the second month. See...

2 Chronicles 34:1 to 2 Chronicles 35:27. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH. See notes on 2 Kings 22, 2 Kings 23:1, which form the basis of the Chronicler's account; but he has made many alterations in accordance with his general tendencies. One important difference between the two accounts is that, according to the Chronicler, Josiah's Reformation takes place before the finding of the book of the Law, an obviously illogical sequence; but the Chronicler desires to emphasize Josiah's piety even in his tender years. The description of the celebration of the Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1) is far fuller than that given in...

OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karab._ App-43. THE BOOK OF MOSES: i.e. Exodus. See App-47....

_that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people_ R.V. THAT THEY MIGHT GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FATHERS" HOUSES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE....

AND THEY REMOVED THE BURNT-OFFERINGS, &C.— _From which they took that which belonged to the burnt-offering to be distributed to the people, divided according to their families, that they might offer it unto the Lord,_ &c. Houbigant....