2 Chronicles 30:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Not in the same manner as they had done the former, with offering new paschal lambs, and eating only unleavened bread, (of which there is not the least intimation in the text,) but only in the solemn worship of God, by sacrifices, and prayers, and praises, and public instruction of that great congregation in the good knowledge of the Lord; which was so dear to Hezekiah, 2 Chronicles 30:22, and at this time most seasonable and necessary for the people, after so long and dismal a night of ignorance, superstition, and idolatry, as both Israel and Judah had been involved in.

2 Chronicles 30:23

23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.