2 Chronicles 30:16 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

2 Chronicles 30:16

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.

21 So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments.

22 And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites ^awho taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and ^bmaking confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

23 Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast ^aanother seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness.

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I & II Chronicles

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them "words of days," that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, "of things omitted," that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, etc., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of "the Word of God" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare II Chronicles 19:7 with I Peter 1:17; II Chronicles 24:19-21 with Matthew 23:32-35).