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2 Chronicles 30:3

2 Chronicles 30:3
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently , neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For they could not keep it at the time,.... In the month Nisan, as the Targum adds, on the fourteenth day of the month, as the law enjoined, because the cleansing of the temple was not finished until…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

At that time - i. e. in the first month, at the time of the events mentioned in 2 Chr. 29.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 30:1-12

Here is, I. A passover resolved upon. That annual feast was instituted as a memorial of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt. It happened that the reviving of the temple service fell…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

at that time In the first month.

sufficiently R.V. in sufficient number.

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