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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 35:10

So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;   Passover;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Service;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;   Ox, Oxen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;   Place;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So the service was prepared, and the Kohanim stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's mitzvah.
King James Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
English Standard Version
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
New Century Version
When everything was ready for the Passover service, the priests and Levites went to their places, as the king had commanded.
New English Translation
Preparations were made, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.
Amplified Bible
When the service was ready, the priests stood in their [assigned] places and the Levites by their divisions, in accordance with the king's command.
New American Standard Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their positions and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.
World English Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their places, also the Leuites in their orders, according to the Kings commandement:
Legacy Standard Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's commandment.
Berean Standard Bible
So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
Contemporary English Version
When everything was ready to celebrate Passover, the priests and the Levites stood where Josiah had told them.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the service was prepared; the cohanim stood at their posts; and the L'vi'im worked in their divisions, in keeping with the king's order.
Darby Translation
And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
Easy-to-Read Version
When everything was ready for the Passover service to begin, the priests and Levites went to their places. This is what the king commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their courses,
Good News Translation
When everything was arranged for the Passover, the priests and the Levites took their posts, as commanded by the king.
Lexham English Bible
And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king.
Literal Translation
And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the command of the king.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was the Gods seruyce prepared, and the prestes stode in their place, and the Leuites in their courses acordinge to the kynges commaundement.
American Standard Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Bible in Basic English
So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the seruice was prepared, and the priestes stoode in their places, & the Leuites in their distinct companies, at the kinges commaundement:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
King James Version (1611)
So the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stood in their place, and the Leuites in their courses, according to the kings commandement.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the command of the king.
English Revised Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the seruyce was maad redi; and preestis stoden in her office, and dekenes in cumpenyes, bi comaundement of the kyng; and pask was offrid.
Update Bible Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
New King James Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.
New Living Translation
When everything was ready for the Passover celebration, the priests and the Levites took their places, organized by their divisions, as the king had commanded.
New Life Bible
So everything was made ready for the Passover. The religious leaders stood in their places, and the Levites stood by their groups, as the king had told them.
New Revised Standard
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus was the service prepared, - and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the commandment of the king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king’s commandment.
Revised Standard Version
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
Young's Literal Translation
And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,
THE MESSAGE
Preparations were complete for the service of worship; the priests took up their positions and the Levites were at their posts as instructed by the king. They killed the Passover lambs, and while the priests sprinkled the blood from the lambs, the Levites skinned them out. Then they set aside the Whole-Burnt-Offering for presentation to the family groupings of the people so that each group could offer it to God following the instructions in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. They roasted the Passover lamb according to the instructions and boiled the consecrated offerings in pots and kettles and pans and promptly served the people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

Contextual Overview

1Josiah observed the Lord’s Passover and slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2He appointed the priests to their responsibilities and encouraged them to serve in the Lord’s temple. 3He said to the Levites who taught all Israel the holy things of the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. Since you do not have to carry it on your shoulders, now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. 4“Organize your ancestral families by your divisions according to the written instruction of King David of Israel and that of his son Solomon. 5Serve in the holy place by the groupings of the ancestral families for your brothers, the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by family. 6Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your brothers to carry out the word of the Lord through Moses.” 7Then Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep, lambs, and young goats, plus three thousand cattle from his own possessions, for the Passover sacrifices for all the lay people who were present. 8His officials also donated willingly for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, chief officials of God’s temple, gave twenty-six hundred Passover sacrifices and three hundred cattle for the priests. 9Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, officers of the Levites, donated five thousand Passover sacrifices for the Levites, plus five hundred cattle. 10So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: 2 Chronicles 35:4, 2 Chronicles 35:5, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Ezra 6:18

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:6 - divided 2 Chronicles 8:14 - the Levites Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Matthew 26:19 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 17:5
Your name will no longer be Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:15
God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.
Genesis 35:27
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Genesis 35:28
Isaac lived 180 years.
1 Kings 18:31
Elijah took twelve stones—according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel will be your name”—
2 Kings 17:34
They are still observing the former practices to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe the statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments that the Lord had commanded the descendants of Jacob, whom he had given the name Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the service was prepared,.... Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor:

and the priests stood in their place; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse:

and the Levites in their courses; whose turn it was to officiate:

according to the king's commandment, 2 Chronicles 35:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references and note.

2 Chronicles 35:8

His princes - i. e. his ecclesiastical princes, the chief men of the priests and Levites. For the poor families of their own order the leading priests furnished both Passover-cattle and cattle for thank-offerings. The chief Levites acted similarly toward the poor Levitical families.


 
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