2 Chronicles 35

2 Chronicles 35:1

KIlled] namely, the Paschall Lambs and Kids.

2 Chronicles 35:3

That taught] as well sacred learning as the observance of Gods service, see Leviticus 10:11. Deuteronomy 17:11. [put the] the Italian, leave the, seeing you are eased of the labour of carrying the Arke of the Lord, which was anciently imposed upon you, Numbers 4:15. employ your selves so much the freelier in this other part of your service, Chron. 23. 26.

2 Chronicles 35:5

Your brethren] the Italian, to minister to your, &c. to help them to make ready the Passeover, ver. 6. and also to lay for the Levites and the Priests who were employed about other businesse, and also for them that were unclean, 2 Chronicles 30:7. [according to the divisions] seeing that for every family which had a head, there must a Paschall lamb be eaten, Exodus 12:3.

2 Chronicles 35:7

Bullocks] these were for the feasts of unleavened bread, Numbers 28:19. and for burnt offrings and sacrifices of thanksgiving.

2 Chronicles 35:8

Rulers] Hilkiah was high Priest, and the two other were his deputies, and heads of the two lines of Eleazer & Ithamar, according to the custome.

2 Chronicles 35:11

They killed] every father of a family, Exodus 12:6. and the Levites by themselves and for other Levites who were otherwise employed: [sprinkled] at the foot of the Altar, see uponExod. 12. 27.

2 Chronicles 35:12

The burnt offerings] that part of these beasts which was to be burned to the Lord, namely, the fat, the kidneys, and the caule, ver. 14. see Leviticus 3:3.

2 Chronicles 35:13

The other] those parts of the sacrifices of thankesgiving which were appointed; for those who offered them, and were to bee dressed in the Temple, and eaten at sacred seasts:[divided them] to each one a part of his offering.

2 Chronicles 35:14

They] namely, the Levites which ministred: [made ready] the Paschall Lambs, and their portions of sacrifices of thanksgiving.

2 Chronicles 35:15

The sonnes] namely, his race and posterity, whose lot and turn it was now to bee and serve in the Temple according to the order, 1 Chronicles 25:1-31. [the Levites] namely, the ministring Levites differing from the other three Offices of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 35:21

The house] to the race of the Kings of Assyria, perpetuall enemies and emulators of the Aegyptians: [for God] namely by some Prophet of his.

2 Chronicles 35:25

In the Lamentations] it might be some compilement of holy Poems upon mournfull subjects, as those of Ieremiah are used upon occasion of some publick calamity.