2 Chronicles 30:2

For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

In Context

1And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel.

3For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not priests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered together to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Numbers 9:11In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:

1 Chronicles 13:1And David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and with all the commanders.

2 Chronicles 30:13And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:

2 Chronicles 35:1And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Proverbs 15:22Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 30:2-13

Preparations for the Passover. ( b. c. 726.) 1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered… Read the whole commentary →

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