And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
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Gill's Exposition
And they killed the passover,.... The lambs for the passover, which was done by the Levites:
and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands; which they received from the Levites, see Ch2…
See the marginal references and note. 2Ch 35:8 His princes - i. e. his ecclesiastical princes, the chief men of the priests and Levites. For the poor families of their own order the leading priests…
Adam Clarke
They killed the passover - The people themselves might slay their own paschal lambs, and then present the blood to the priests, that they might sprinkle it before the altar; and the Levites flayed…
The destruction which Josiah made of idols and idolatry was more largely related in the Kings, but just mentioned here in the foregoing chapter (v. 33); but his solemnizing the passover, which was…
Cambridge Bible
sprinkled Cp. 2Ch 29:22, note.
from their hands R.V. which they received of their hand; cp. 2Ch 30:16.
the Levites flayed Cp. 2Ch 29:34.
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