For the king had taken counsel, &c.— The direction which the law gives is, that the passover should be celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month: but, as it was found impossible to get all things in readiness against that time, it was judged adviseable to adjourn it to the 14th of the next month, rather than stay till the next year: and for this they had some encouragement; because the law allows, that in case any man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, he may eat the passover on the 14th day of the second month, Numbers 9:10-11. And what was an indulgence to particular persons, they thought might well be allowed to the whole congregation of Israel.
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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.