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2 Chronicles 30:16
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14 They arose and took away the aaltars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook bKidron.  
15 Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were aashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.  
16 They stood in their aplace according to their custom, according to the Law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites.  
17 For there were many in the assembly who had not1 sanctified themselves; atherefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord.  
18 For a multitude of the people, amany from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, byet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement for everyone  
19 who aprepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.”  
20 And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Chronicles 30:16-18

the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites—This was a deviation from the established rules and practices in presenting the offerings of the temple. The reason was, that many present on the occasion having not sanctified themselves, the Levites slaughtered the paschal victims (see on II Chronicles 35:5) for everyone that was unclean. At other times the heads of families killed the lambs themselves, the priests receiving the blood from their hands and presenting it on the altar. Multitudes of the Israelites, especially from certain tribes (II Chronicles 30:18), were in this unsanctified state, and yet they ate the passover—an exceptional feature and one opposed to the law (Numbers 9:6); but this exception was allowed in answer to Hezekiah's prayer (II Chronicles 30:18-20).




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