2nd Kings Chapter 23 verse 21 Holy Bible
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
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And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.
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And the king commanded all the people saying, Hold the passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
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And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
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And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
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The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
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And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying, `Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on this book of the covenant.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover. The account given of Josiah's Passover is much more full in Chronicles than in Kings. In Chronicles it occupies nineteen verses of 2 Chronicles 35. We learn from Chronicles that all the rites prescribed by the Law, whether in Exodus, Leviticus, or Deuteronomy, were duly observed, and that the festival was attended, not only by the Judaeans, but by many Israelites from among the ten tribes, who still remained intermixed with the Assyrian colonists in the Samaritan country (see 2 Chronicles 35:17, 18). Unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. The ordinances for the due observance of the Passover feast are contained chiefly in Exodus (Exodus 12:3-20; Exodus 13:5-10). They are repeated, but with much less fullness, in Deuteronomy 16:1-8. The "book of the covenant" found by Hilkiah must, therefore, certainly have contained Exodus (see below, ver. 25).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Keep the passover.--Hold a passover (2Kings 23:22). (Comp. 2Chronicles 35:1-19 for a more detailed account of this unique celebration.) Josiah had the precedent of Hezekiah for signalising his religious revolution by a solemn passover (2Chronicles 30:1).In the book of this covenant.--Rather, in this book of the covenant (2Kings 23:2). The book was that which Hilkiah had found in the Temple, and which gave the impulse to the whole reforming movement. (The LXX. and Vulg. read, in the book of this covenant--a mere mistake.)
