Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:15
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
15. the second month ] Cp. 2Ch 30:2-3.
were ashamed ] Of their former backwardness; cp. 2Ch 30:3, 2Ch 29:34.
brought in the burnt offerings ] R.V. brought burnt offerings, i.e. as an atonement for themselves.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The laggart priests and Levites, who from want of zeal for the Yahweh-worship, or from actual inclination to idolatry, had neglected to purify themselves (2Ch 30:3 and marginal reference), were now shamed by the general ardor, and sanctified themselves for the Paschal festival.
And brought in the burnt offerings – Received them, i. e. from the offerers at the doors of the inner court, and took them up to the brass altar in front of the porch. No part of the burnt offerings was ever taken inside the temple building.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The priests and the Levites were ashamed; their negligence and remissness being upbraided by the great and general alacrity and forwardness of the people.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. the priests and the Levites wereashamedThough the Levites are associated in this statement,the priests were principally referred to; those of them who had beendilatory or negligent in sanctifying themselves (2Ch29:34) were put to the blush and stimulated to their duty by thegreater alacrity and zeal of the people.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month,…. For though they could not keep it in the month in which it should have been kept, for the reasons before given, yet they kept it on the day of the month in which it was observed:
and the priests and the Levites were ashamed; of their negligence and backwardness to service, and to fit themselves for it, when they saw the people so forward and ready to attend to it:
and they sanctified themselves; by washing their bodies and their garments:
and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord; to be offered up on the altar of burnt offerings, to expiate their own sins, and the sins of the people; though some take these to be the passover offerings; but they were not offered until the fifteenth day, and besides were peace offerings, mentioned 2Ch 30:22, rather these were the daily sacrifices.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves.Ashamed of their former reluctance to purify themselves from the defilement contracted by their connection with illegal cults and sanctuaries during the late reign (2Ch. 29:34; and 2Ch. 30:3, supra). In the former passage the Levites are favourably contrasted with the priests; here they are spoken of in the same terms, a verbal inaccuracy apparently due to the writers desire to be brief.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. The priests and the Levites were ashamed Because of their uncleanness and their lack of zeal for Jehovah’s worship. The zeal of others, and the thought of their own tendency to idolatry, put them to the blush. In 2Ch 30:3, and 2Ch 29:34, we learn that the delinquents were chiefly priests; but here it appears that there were Levites also who had not sufficiently sanctified themselves.
Sanctified themselves Or, had sanctified themselves; that is, previously to the fourteenth day of the month, so that they were ceremonially fit on that day to minister in the passover offerings.
Into the house of the Lord Into the court of burnt offerings, where the brazen altar stood.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
There are several most interesting things observable upon this occasion. The people first put away all the idolatrous altars before they proceeded to their pure worship. The old leaven of malice and wickedness must he put away by the followers of the Lord Jesus before they keep the feast of unleavened bread on the body and blood of Christ. 1Co 5:7-8 . The sprinkling of the blood, according to the original institution, plainly shows that amidst the long dreadful reign of idolatry there were some precious souls who by faith looked to the blood of sprinkling in Jesus. Heb 12:24 . The zeal of many upon this occasion outdoing the priests and Levites, is a delightful testimony also that the Lord had a seed alive in the midst of that degenerate nation, which though to the eye of men unknown like as it was in the days of Elijah, yet to the Lord were known, and by the Lord reserved from the general corruption. Rom 11:3-4 . The unseasonable appointment of this passover which necessity had induced, and the quickness with which it was brought forward after it was determined upon, not allowing space for the usual preparation, the king implored the Lord to pardon, and to accept the people according to what they had, and not what they had not. And the Lord’s gracious attention to the king’s prayer and healing the people; these things, beheld with an eye to Jesus, are sweet gospel blessings veiled under these law dispensations. Reader! do not overlook your own personal concern in this. After all your preparations what sanctification is there in your best prayers and services. Need not the holiest of men to cry out, The good Lord pardon every one? Oh! how precious, how infinitely precious, is the thought, that the same worth, the same sin-atoning efficacy is in the Lamb that was slain, though there be new guilt and new defilement in our hearts and in our poor services, from day to day. The virtue and merits of Jesus’s blood become the sanctification and cause of acceptance of his people forever.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
Ver. 15. Then they killed the passover. ] So must we first cast the baggage into the brook, and then come to the Lord’s supper. 1Co 5:7-8
And the priests and Levites were ashamed.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
were ashamed: 2Ch 29:34, Eze 16:61-63, Eze 43:10, Eze 43:11
and sanctified: 2Ch 30:24, 2Ch 5:11, 2Ch 29:15, 2Ch 29:34, 2Ch 31:18, Exo 19:10, Exo 19:22
Reciprocal: Exo 12:6 – fourteenth Exo 12:21 – and take Num 8:22 – after that Num 9:3 – the fourteenth 1Ch 15:12 – sanctify 2Ch 35:6 – So kill Ezr 6:20 – purified together
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 30:15. The priests and Levites were ashamed Their negligence and remissness being upbraided by the general forwardness of the people. The zeal which we observe in others, should make us ashamed of our own coldness, and quicken us not only to do our duty, but to do it with our might.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were {l} ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
(l) Seeing their own negligence (who should have been most prompt) and the readiness of the people, 2Ch 29:36.