And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
The destruction which Josiah made of idols and idolatry was more largely related in the Kings, but just mentioned here in the foregoing chapter (v. 33); but his solemnizing the passover, which was touched upon there (Kg2 23:21), is very particularly related here. Many were the feasts of the Lord, appointed by the ceremonial law, but the passover was the chief.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 35:1-19
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time,.... In its proper time, on the fourteenth day of Nisan: and the feast of unleavened bread seven days; the seven days following the passover, as the Lord by Moses appointed.
2Ch 35:16-19 The character of the passover and Mazzoth festivals. - 2Ch 35:16. “So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, in regard to the preparing of the passover, and the offering of the burnt-offerings upon the altar, according to the command of the king.” This statement, like that in 2Ch 35:10, summarizes all that precedes, and forms the transition to...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 35:16-19