Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezra 6:19

"And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month." — Ezra 6:19 (ASV)

Upon the fourteenth day of the first month. —Recording the special celebration of the Passover—after the precedent of Hezekiah and Josiah—Ezra returns to the Hebrew language. The occasion was, as it were, a renewal of the redemption from Egypt, and another wilderness had been passed.