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Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. See also: Exodus 12:6Numbers 9:3Ezra 6:19He set the priests in their offices and encouraged them in the service of the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Chronicles 31:21 Chronicles 22:191 Chronicles 24:1-31He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel. See also: 1 Chronicles 23:262 Chronicles 17:8-9Malachi 2:7Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. See also: 2 Chronicles 8:141 Chronicles 23:1-261 Chronicles 9:10-34Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites. See also: Psalms 134:1Psalms 135:2Ezra 6:18Kill the Passover lamb, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the LORD’s word by Moses.” See also: 2 Chronicles 29:52 Chronicles 29:15Hebrews 9:13-14Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance. See also: 1 Kings 8:632 Chronicles 30:241 Chronicles 29:3His princes gave a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. See also: 2 Chronicles 29:31-33Acts 4:1Ezra 1:6Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle. See also: Jeremiah 3:10Micah 6:6-82 Chronicles 31:12So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:16Ezra 6:182 Chronicles 35:4-5They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them. See also: 2 Chronicles 29:34Leviticus 1:5-62 Chronicles 30:16They 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 to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. See also: Leviticus 3:9-11Leviticus 3:14-16Leviticus 3:5They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. See also: Exodus 12:8-91 Samuel 2:13-15Deuteronomy 16:7Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron. See also: Acts 6:2-4The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them. See also: 1 Chronicles 9:17-191 Chronicles 26:12-191 Chronicles 25:1-7So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the LORD’s altar, according to the commandment of King Josiah. The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. See also: Exodus 12:15-20Exodus 23:15Leviticus 23:5-8There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept—with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:52 Kings 23:21-232 Chronicles 30:26-27This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah. After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him. See also: Isaiah 10:92 Kings 23:29-30Jeremiah 46:2-12But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.” See also: 2 Chronicles 25:192 Kings 18:252 Samuel 16:10Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. See also: Judges 5:192 Chronicles 18:291 Kings 22:30The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!” See also: 1 Kings 22:342 Kings 9:24Lamentations 3:13So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. See also: Zechariah 12:112 Kings 23:30Ecclesiastes 9:1-2Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations. See also: Jeremiah 22:10Lamentations 4:20Matthew 9:23Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the LORD’s law, See also: 2 Chronicles 31:202 Chronicles 32:32and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. See also: 2 Kings 10:342 Chronicles 24:272 Chronicles 33:19
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 35:3
Ver. 3. By whose. Sept. "the powerful in Israel, that they might be sanctified to the Lord; and they put," &c. Heb. "who instructed all Israel, the holy people of the Lord: Put," &c. H. --- No more. Heb. adds, "upon your shoulders;" (H.) whence it is inferred, that it had been carried about the cities of Juda, under the impious kings, who would not suffer it in the temple. C. --- Some believe that it was kept in the house of Sellum, the uncle of Jeremias, and husband of Olda. S.
Jer. Trad. T.
↑ 32 Chronicles 35:5
Ver. 5. Families. Heb. adds, "according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren, the people, (H. or laics. C.) and the division of the families of the Levites." All were placed, with great order, in the temple.
↑ 52 Chronicles 35:6
Ver. 6. Which. Heb. "of the Lord, by the hand of Moses," which ordinances he has written down.
M.
↑ 62 Chronicles 35:7
Ver. 7. In. Heb. "for the Passover-offerings, from the flock, lambs and kids, in number 30,000."
Et reliqui pecoris, is not expressed. H. --- The small cattle might be intended for other sacrifices.
M.
↑ 72 Chronicles 35:8
Ver. 8. Offered. Heb. "gave to the people." H. --- Rulers: the first alone was high priest. C. ---
Small cattle: literally, cattle of different sorts;" commixtim. Prot. supply, "small cattle," which is not in Heb. H. --- Syr. and Arab. have, "sheep;" but we had best follow (C.) the Sept. "sheep, both lambs and kids." Either would suffice.
Ex. xii. 5.
↑ 82 Chronicles 35:9
Ver. 9. Cattle. Prot. again supply these words. Sept. have, "sheep." H.
↑ 92 Chronicles 35:11
Ver. 11. Blood is expressed in the Sept. and understood in Heb. H. --- With.
Heb. and Sept.
"from their hands;" (H.) receiving it from the officers, who might slay their own victims, (C.) unless they were unclean, (C.) xxx. 17. H. --- Holocausts. Heb. and Sept. speak of the paschal lambs. H. --- Holocausts were regularly to be flayed by priests. Lev. i. 6. The hurry of the solemnity, (C.) and necessity, here excused the Levites, (M.) if we understand proper holocausts.
H.
↑ 112 Chronicles 35:12
Ver. 12. Separated. Sept. "prepared the holocaust to give; having taken notice to whom the victims belonged, before they took off the skin, (M.) or rather, separating these from the other peace-offerings. Tournemine.
↑ 122 Chronicles 35:13
Ver. 13. Victims. Heb. and Sept. "but the holy offerings they boiled." See Ex. xii.
9. H.
↑ 132 Chronicles 35:15
Ver. 15. Prophets. Heb. "seer." But Sept. &c. read in the plural. These were
"prophets of the king," (H.) or masters of music. C. --- Vulg. might insinuate that these three gave orders, as well as David. But they were in office under him, as people of the same name were, probably, under Josias. H.
↑ 152 Chronicles 35:18
Ver. 18. As Josias kept. He displayed greater liberality (E. See 4 K. xxiii. 20.) and devotion; and the festival had also been neglected for some time. W.
↑ 182 Chronicles 35:20
Ver. 20. Charcamis belonged to the Assyrian monarch, (Isai. x. 9.) who subdued the empire of Babylon. C. xxxiii. 11.
↑ 202 Chronicles 35:21
Ver. 21. With me. Grotius thinks that Jeremias had given the order; and the author of Heb.
Traditions, supposes that he forbade Josias to oppose Pharao, who, it seems, was assured of victory. C. --- But this is uncertain; and Josias might justly suspect that the king of Egypt spoke without authority. H. --- The augurs of the latter might declare the truth, (M.) though they could not dive into futurity. H. ---
Herodotus (i.) informs us, that Nechos fought against the Syrians, (or Israelites) in Magdelum, and took Cadythis, a city as large as Sardis, of Lydia; probably Jerusalem, (D.) or Cades. C.
↑ 212 Chronicles 35:22
Ver. 22. Prepared. Heb. "disguised himself," like Achab; (C.) or set his army in array. Sept. "he was bent on fighting him." H. --- He supposed that Pharao intended to invade his dominions, and God would withdraw him from the world. W.
↑ 222 Chronicles 35:24
Ver. 24. After the manner of kings, is not in Heb. &c. H. --- Curtius (iv.) informs us, that the Persian monarch had always a horse behind his chariot, to be ready in case of any accident.
↑ 242 Chronicles 35:25
Ver. 25. Lamentations. Some think that we have them in the Bible. Josephus,
&c. --- Others believe that they are lost. Salien, A. 3425. --- Law, on the anniversary; (M.) or when any calamity occurs, the lamentations of Jeremias are used. T. --- There were collections of such poems, as well as of canticles, for victory and marriages. C.
↑ 252 Chronicles 35:27
Ver. 27. Israel is placed first in Heb. and Sept. H. --- The kings of Juda assumed the title, as the kingdom had been subverted above a century; and the wretched remains of Israel had retreated into the territories, (C.) or acknowledged their dominion. H.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses