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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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Albert Barnes
On 2 Chronicles 30:3
18th Century
Theologian
At that time—that is, in the first month, at the time of the events mentioned in 2 Chronicles 29.
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Chronicles 30:3
19th Century
Bishop
At that time. —The time when the Temple had just been reopened (2 Chronicles 29:8), in the first month of Hezekiah’s f…
John Gill
On 2 Chronicles 30:3
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On 2 Chronicles 30:1–12
17th Century
Minister
Hezekiah made Israel as welcome to the Passover as any of his own subjects. Let us yield ourselves to the Lord. Do not say that you will do as you …