And Josiah gave to the people , of the flock, lambs and kids , all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
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And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings,.... Which be either lambs or kids of the goats, Exo 12:5, for all that were present, to the number of…
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…
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
gave R.V. mg., gave for offerings; cp. 2Ch 30:24, (R.V.) where it is said that Hezekiah did the same at his great Passover.
to the people R.V. to the children of the people (as in 2Ch 35:5, see…
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