2 Chronicles 30:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In the second month - Hezekiah and his counselors considered that the permission of the Law (see the marginal reference) might, under the circumstances, be extended to the whole people. It had been found impossible to complete the cleansing of the temple until the fourteenth day of the first month was past 2 Chronicles 29:17. It was, therefore, determined to defer it to the 14th of the second month, which allowed time for the priests generally to purify themselves, and for proclamation of the festival to be made throughout all Israel.

2 Chronicles 30:2

2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.