‏ 2 Chronicles 35:16-19

2Ch 35:16-19

The character of the passover and Mazzoth festivals. - 2Ch 35:16. “So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, in regard to the preparing of the passover, and the offering of the burnt-offerings upon the altar, according to the command of the king.” This statement, like that in 2Ch 35:10, summarizes all that precedes, and forms the transition to the concluding remarks on the whole festival. ההוּא בּיּום is not to be limited to the one afternoon and evening of the fourteenth day of the month, but refers to the whole time of the festival, just as יום in Gen 2:4 embraces the seven days of creation. “עלות are the עלה and the חלבים (2Ch 35:14)” (Berth.); but it by no means follows from that, that “at the passover, besides the regular burnt-offering (Num 28:4), no burnt-offering would seem to have been offered,” but rather that the words have a more general signification, and denote the sacrifices at the passover and Mazzoth festivals.
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