Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 35:11
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
11. 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.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 11. 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 them, and made them ready for dressing.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Which they did, though properly it belonged to the priests, because the priests, who were sanctified, were not sufficient for that work, there being so many thousands of the cattle; and they were fully employed in the killing of the sacrifices and the sprinkling of the blood, which was more properly the priests work than the other.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 2Ch 30:16.
and the Levites flayed them; the passover lambs, took off their skins.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) The passover.The paschal victims.
From their hands.Heb., hand. The hand of the Levites, who caught the blood when they slaughtered the victims, and gave it to the priests.
Flayed.Were flaying.The exception of 2Ch. 30:17 has become the rule here.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Matters being thus prepared, the service began. And let not the Reader overlook the employment of the priests, who it is said were busied in offering burnt-offerings and the fat until night. The sufferings of Jesus opened at the evening if we take in the garden scene, which as it formed so interesting a part undoubtedly we must. And the priests were alone engaged in this service preparatory to the great day. The sprinkling of the blood after killing the lamb, were certainly striking circumstances appointed by the Holy Ghost to lead by faith to the Saviour. Indeed everything in it was typical of the Lord Jesus. A lamb of the first year, without blemish and without spot; the setting it apart four days before; the slaying it and roasting it whole; and not a bone of it to be broken; all these were very highly significant of Jesus. And as the paschal lamb was to be eaten, and wholly eaten, nothing of it being to be left, what could more decidedly speak in reference to Jesus, who as Christ our passover is not to be looked upon only, but by faith fed upon, and lived upon, and wholly so; all Christ, and all in Christ, to form a complete Saviour: surely such views held forth to the church , both at the original institution of it after coming out of Egypt, and now again in the days of Josiah so fully revived, at a period distant from the deliverance out of Egypt of at least 850 years; nothing can more fully display the vast importance of the thing itself, and of the sense in which the Holy Ghost was pleased the church should consider it with reference to the body of Jesus Christ in his offering upon the cross for human sin once for all.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
Ver. 11. And they killed the passover. ] See 2Ch 30:15 . The Levites killed the bullocks, whereof see 2Ch 35:7 ; but the paschal lamb, the most proper service of the passover, was killed, as some think, by the head of each family.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
they: i.e. the Levites.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the priests: 2Ch 29:22-24, 2Ch 30:16, Lev 1:5, Lev 1:6, Num 18:3, Num 18:7, Heb 9:21, Heb 9:22
flayed them: 2Ch 29:34
Reciprocal: 1Ch 23:28 – purifying Ezr 6:20 – killed Eze 44:11 – shall slay Mat 26:19 – and they
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 35:11. And the Levites flayed them Which they did, (though properly that work belonged to the priests,) because the priests, who were sanctified, were not sufficient for it, there being so many thousands of the cattle; and they were fully employed in the killing of the sacrifices, and the sprinkling of the blood, which was more properly the priests work than the other.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests {f} sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
(f) Meaning, of the lamb, which was called the passover, for only the priests could sprinkle, and in necessity the Levites could kill the sacrifice.