Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 35:10
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
10. in their courses ] R.V. by their courses.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
10, 11. So the service was prepared,c.All the necessary preparations having been completed, and theappointed time having arrived for the passover, the solemnity wascelebrated. One remarkable feature in the account is the prominentpart that was taken by the Levites in the preparation of thesacrifices namely, the killing and stripping of the skins, which wereproperly the peculiar duties of the priests; but as thosefunctionaries were not able to overtake the extraordinary amount ofwork and the Levites had been duly sanctified for the service, theywere enlisted for the time in this priestly employment. At thepassover in Hezekiah’s time, the Levites officiated in the samedepartments of duty, the reason assigned for that deviation from theestablished rule being the unprepared state of many of the people(2Ch 30:17). But on thisoccasion the whole people had been duly sanctified, and therefore theexceptional enlistment of the Levites’ services must have beenrendered unavoidably necessary from the multitudes engaged incelebrating the passover.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
So the service was prepared,…. Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor:
and the priests stood in their place; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse:
and the Levites in their courses; whose turn it was to officiate:
according to the king’s commandment, 2Ch 35:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) So the service was prepared.The preparations were completed. (See 2Ch. 35:4; 2Ch. 35:16)
In their place.On their stand (2Ch. 30:16).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
Ver. 10. According to the king’s commandment.] Kings in those days commanded the priests, as well as others, to do their duties. That great Heteroclite of Rome acknowledgeth not any such right of theirs. Volumus te scire te in temporali et spirituali nobis subiacere, &c., said Pope Boniface in a brave [bravado] of his to Philip the Fair, king of France.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 35:10-15
2Ch 35:10-15
DETAILS OF THE PASSOVER OBSERVANCE
“So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment. And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer unto Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. And they roasted the passover with fire, according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. And the singers the sons of Asaph, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.”
SUCH A PASSOVER NOT SEEN SINCE THE DAYS OF SAMUEL
This cannot mean that the passover was not observed in the days of David the king; so what is meant? We have found no help at all regarding this question in the commentaries; and the only thing which we can think of which made this passover different from those observed during the kingship of David is the conspicuous absence of the instruments of music, which were so dear to David’s heart.
E.M. Zerr:
2Ch 35:10. Everything was “all set” for the important observance. Each man took his place for duty, whether he were a priest and ready for the direct service at the altar, or of the other Levites, and ready for secondary work in connection with the ceremonies. And the whole procedure was according to the king’s commandment.
2Ch 35:11. The animal was killed by having his throat cut. That caused the blood to be available, and it was first used by the priests by sprinkling or dashing it by hand on the altar. Then the other Levites would flay (skin) the carcass and prepare it for burning on the altar.
2Ch 35:12. Certain parts of some of the animals were to be burned on the altar. Certain other parts were to be given to the people for their individual service to the Lord. This is the explanation of the verse.
2Ch 35:13. The passover was the set feast for this time of the year, and the law required that it be roasted, not boiled. (Exo 12:8-9.) Other offerings that the people made along about the same time could be sodden, which means they were boiled. The cooking was done in whatever vessels were convenient. After being cooked, they were divided among the people for food.
2Ch 35:14. They in the verses now being considered means the Levites in general. They had to do the bulk of the work, while the priests (the Levites who came from Aaron), had to do the official work about the altar. After the congregation had been waited on, these unofficial Levites were released to get ready for their own offerings. And while they were at it they prepared for the priests also because they had not had any time to do so for themselves. The fat is specially mentioned because it was the most important part of an animal that was offered on the altar. It referred to the richest portion, such as the suet and the material that clung to the kidneys and intestines. It had no reference to what is commonly called “fat meat.”
2Ch 35:15. The sons of Asaph were a school of poets and musical composers founded by Asaph, according to Smith’s Bible Dictionary. The word “school” means group or class in about the same sense as we speak of a “school” of fishes. David had appointed this group to the song program in connection with the passover.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
the priests: 2Ch 35:4, 2Ch 35:5, 2Ch 30:16, Ezr 6:18
Reciprocal: 1Ch 23:6 – divided 2Ch 8:14 – the Levites Eze 44:11 – shall slay Mat 26:19 – and they