2 Chronicles 30:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Which was against the common rule and practice, but was justified by that supreme law of necessity, and by a just impediment, which made the doing of this in its proper time, to wit, the fourteenth day of the first month, impossible, because the temple was not cleansed nor they prepared till that time was past, 2 Chronicles 29:3,17. Compare Numbers 9:10,11.

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.