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For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
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A Practical Postponement
Commentators unanimously explain that the Passover was postponed for practical, not spiritual, reasons. The Temple's purification wasn't completed until after the prescribed date for Passover, and there simply were not enough priests who had completed their own ritual sanctification in time to serve.
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2 Chronicles
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18th Century
Presbyterian
At that time—that is, in the first month, at the time of the events mentioned in 2 Chronicles 29.
19th Century
Anglican
At that time. —The time when the Temple had just been reopened (2 Chronicles 29:8), in the first month of Hezekiah’s f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For they could not keep it at the time In the month Nisan, as the Targum adds, on the fourteenth day of the month, a…
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