2 Chronicles 35:17

The Israelites who were there also celebrated Passover at that time, and also the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the following seven days.

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In The King James Version

And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

In Context

16So on that day the whole Passover service of the Lord took place, including the presenting of burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had ordered.

18No Passover like this had been held in Israel since the time of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had ever held a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all of Judah, the Israelites who were there, and the people of Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:6For seven days you are to only eat bread without yeast, and on the seventh day hold a religious festival to honor the Lord.

Exodus 34:18Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast, as I ordered you to do. You are to do this at the specified time in the month of Abib, because that was the month when you left Egypt.

Numbers 28:16The Lord's Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Deuteronomy 16:8Eat bread without yeast for six days, and then on the seventh day you are to have a holy meeting to honor the Lord your God. You are not to do any work.

1 Corinthians 5:7Get rid of this old yeast so that you can be a new batch of dough to make bread without yeast. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

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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