2 Chronicles 35:11

And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

In Context

10So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

12And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.

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Cross References

Numbers 18:3They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

2 Chronicles 29:22So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.

2 Chronicles 30:16And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites.

Hebrews 9:21And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 35:2-20

The Reign of Josiah. ( b. c. 623.) 1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord , 3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the Lord , Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the Lord your God,… Read the whole commentary →

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