2 Kings 23:21

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See 2 Kings 23:4 note. With this verse the author returns to the narrative of what was done in Josiah’s 18th year. The need of the injunction, “a...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Celebration of the Passover. The mention of the eighteenth year ( 2 Kings 23:23 ; cf. 2 Kings 22:3 ) shows that the reforms of Josiah occupied six m...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. The k...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The passover ] Of this passover details are given in 2 Chronicles 35:1-19 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proving His Whole-Heartedness 2 Kings 23:15-25 Josiah carried his drastic reforms even to Samaria, thus fulfilling a prophecy uttered 350 years...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have a graphic account of the reformation following the discovery of the book of the Law. It was carried out by the splendid enthu...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a delightful view of Josiah is here given? He first sets his heart to cleanse the temple; and next offers himself and his people to the Lord. An...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the king commanded all the people ,.... Not at Jerusalem only, but throughout the whole kingdom: saying, keep the passover unto the Lord your...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant. Ver. 21....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The king commanded, saying, Keep the passover , &c. Having abolished false worship, he now endeavours to set up the true worship of the true God...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOSIAH'S COVENANT AND JUDGMENT OF IDOLATRY (vv.1-20) Being king in Judah and therefore the representative of all the people, Josiah realised his...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Josiah Reforms Judah. B. C. 623. 4 A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Keep the passover: having abolished false worship, he now endeavours to set up the true worship of the true God. In this book of the covenant; in...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Observance of The Passover ( 2 Kings 23:21-23 ). The making of the new covenant following the reading of the Law was then followed by an obser...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE DESTRUCTION OF IDOLATRY BY JOSIAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 23:1 . The king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah —Not c...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:29 . He slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him; as in 2 Kings 14:8 . It would seem from this phrase that the two kings were engaged...
The Biblical Illustrator

And the King sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Good aims and bad methods The verses I have selected re...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 23:1-12 JOSIAH 'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT . HIS REFORMS AND DEATH . REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ . ACCESSION...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the king, probably in the early years of his reformatory labors, commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover unto the Lord, your God, as...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Passover Kept
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 35:1-19 ; Deuteronomy 16:1-8 ; Exodus 12:3-20 ; Leviticus 23:5-8 ; Numbers 28:16-25 ; Numbers 9:2-5

²¹ And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 23:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 23:21