So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
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So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
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So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
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So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 35:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 30:16 They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
- Ezra 6:18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 35:4-5 Prepare 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. Stand 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.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the…
2Ch 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
Ver. 10. According to the king’s commandment.] Kings in those days commanded the priests, as well as others, to do their duties. That great Heteroclite of Rome acknowledgeth not any such right of theirs. Volumus te scire te in temporali et spirituali nobis subiacere, &c., said Pope Boniface in a brave [bravado] of his to Philip the Fair, king of France.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So the service was prepared,.... Every thing was got…
So the service was prepared,.... Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor:
and the priests stood in their place; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse:
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and the Levites in their courses; whose turn it was to officiate:
according to the king's commandment, Ch2 35:4.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain So the service was prepared, &c.--All the necessary preparations…
So the service was prepared, &c.--All the necessary preparations having been completed, and the appointed time having arrived for the passover, the solemnity was celebrated. One remarkable feature in the account is the prominent part that was taken by the Levites in the preparation of the sacrifices; namely, the killing and stripping of the skins, which were properly the peculiar duties of the priests; but as those functionaries were not able to overtake the extraordinary amount of work and the Levites had been duly sanctified for the service, they were enlisted for the time in this priestly employment. At the passover in Hezekiah's time, the Levites officiated in the same departments of duty, the reason assigned for that deviation from the established rule being the unprepared state of many of the people (Ch2 30:17). But on this occasion the whole people had been duly sanctified, and therefore the exceptional enlistment of the Levites' services must have been rendered unavoidably necessary from the multitudes engaged in celebrating the passover.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. in their courses] R.V. by their courses.
10. in their courses] R.V. by their courses.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) So the service was prepared.—The preparations were completed.…
(10) So the service was prepared.—The preparations were completed. (See 2Ch_35:4; 2Ch_35:16)
In their place.—On their stand (2Ch_30:16).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain According to the king"s commandment. (see 2Ch_30:16, where the…
According to the king"s commandment. (see 2Ch_30:16, where the sanction is referred further back, "according to the Law of Moses, the man of God
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the service was prepared
the service was prepared
This can be translated in active form. AT: "they prepared everything they needed so they could perform the Passover" (See: Active or Passive)
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their divisions
the groups into which the people had divided the priests and Levites. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 35:4.
the blood that they received from the Levites' hand
Here the word "hand" refers to the Levites. AT: "the blood that the Levites gave them" (See: Synecdoche)
ancestral houses of the people
The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house. AT: "the families that were the descendants of their ancestors" (See: Metonymy)
translationWords
servant
priest
king
command
Passover
lamb
blood
receive
burnt offering
Yahweh
law
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