My Notes
Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
For this was a statute for Israel,.... It was not a piece of will worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; and…
Barnes' Notes
For this was a statute for Israel ... - See Exo 12:3. That is, it was a law for the whole Jewish people, for all who had the name Israel, for all the descendants of Jacob. The word was is not in the…
When the people of God were gathered together in the solemn day, the day of the feast of the Lord, they must be told that they had business to do, for we do not go to church to sleep nor to be idle;…
The reason for the celebration in the divine appointment of the festival as a memorial of God's goodness to Israel.