2 Chronicles 30:16

Contextual Overview

¹³A very large assembly of people was gathered in Jerusalem to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month. ¹³ There assembled at Yerushalayim much people to keep the feast of matzah in the second month, a very great assembly. ¹³ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. ¹³ And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly. ¹³ In the second month a large crowd came together in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ¹³ A huge crowd assembled in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. ¹³Now many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; it was a very large assembly. ¹³ Now many people were gathered at Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very large assembly. ¹³ There assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. ¹³ And there assembled to Ierusalem much people, to keepe the feast of ye vnleauened bread in the second moneth, a very great assemblie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they stood: 2 Chronicles 35:10, 2 Chronicles 35:15

place: Heb. standing

after their manner: 2 Kings 11:14

Moses: Deuteronomy 33:1

the priests: 2 Chronicles 35:10, 2 Chronicles 35:11, Leviticus 1:5, Hebrews 11:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:2 - but thou 2 Chronicles 29:34 - the priests

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God,.... The priests in their place, and the Levites in theirs, in which they were ordered to stand when they offered sacrifice:

the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites; the blood either of the burnt offerings before mentioned, or of the passover lambs, which the Levites slew, and received the blood of them in basins; and which the priests took of them, and sprinkled, not on the door posts of houses, as in Egypt, but on the altar round about, and which none but priests might do, Leviticus 1:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After their manner - According to the Mishna, the custom was for the priests to stand in two rows extending from the altar to the outer court, where the people were assembled. As each offerer killed his lamb the blood was caught in a basin, which was handed to the nearest priest, who passed it on to his neighbor, and he to the next; the blood was thus conveyed to the altar, at the base of which it was thrown by the last priest in the row. While basins full of blood were thus passed up, empty basins were passed down in a constant succession, so that there was no pause or delay.

Which they received of the hand of the Levites - Ordinarily, the blood was received at the hand of the offerer. But the greater number of the Israelites 2 Chronicles 30:17 who had come to keep the feast were involved in some ceremonial or moral defilement, from which there had not been time for them to purify themselves. On account of this uncleanness, they did not slay their own lambs, but delegated the office to the Levites.