2 Chroniques 30:1
SHOULD COME.. AT JERUSALEM] This implies an endeavour to centralise the national worship by the abolition of the local sanctuaries (as described in 2 Rois 18:4).... [ Continuer la lecture ]
SHOULD COME.. AT JERUSALEM] This implies an endeavour to centralise the national worship by the abolition of the local sanctuaries (as described in 2 Rois 18:4).... [ Continuer la lecture ]
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter relates how a passover was kept on the second month for Israel and Judah.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
IN THE SECOND MONTH] The Law allowed individuals to keep the Passover in the second month instead of the first, if they were prevented by some temporary hindrance (Nombres 9:10), and this permission Hezekiah thought might be extended to the whole community.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
AT THAT TIME] i.e. at the proper season, viz. the 14th day of the first month. The cleansing of the Temple was not completed till the 16th day of that month: 2 Chroniques 29:17.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
DONE _it_ OF A LONG _time_] RV 'kept it in great numbers.' According to Exode 12:8 the Passover was to be observed by 'the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.'... [ Continuer la lecture ]
THE POSTS] bit. 'the couriers,' who were probably some of the royal guards. YOU, THAT.. ASSYRIA] Since what is here related took place (according to 2 Chroniques 29:3) in Hezekiah's first year, the reference must be to the invasion of Tiglath-pileser: 2 Rois 15:29; 1 Chroniques 5:26.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD] This, though distinct from the Passover, was not separated from it by any interval, and the two came to be treated as one which could be described indifferently by either name: 2 Chroniques 30:2; 2 Chroniques 30:13; 2 Chroniques 30:15.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
THE ALTARS] i.e. those erected by Ahaz: 2 Chroniques 28:24.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
WERE ASHAMED] The zeal of the laity roused the priests, who had formerly been remiss (2 Chroniques 29:34), to a sense of their duty.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
THE PASSOVERS] i.e. the paschal lambs, which (according to Exode 12:6) ought to have been killed by the head of each household.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
OTHERWISE THAN IT WAS.WRITTEN] As this Passover in the second month took the place of the one ordinarily held in the first month, there could be no supplementary passover for such as were unclean; so Hezekiah preferred that the people should break the letter of the Law and eat without being sanctifi... [ Continuer la lecture ]
HEALED] i.e. did not send upon them, the punishment which they had incurred: cp. Lévitique 15:31.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
THE STRANGERS] i.e. proselytes of foreign descent, who either had come out of the northern kingdom or were settled in Judah.... [ Continuer la lecture ]