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2 Chronicles 35:11

Then they killed the Passover animals. The religious leaders took the blood from them and put it on the altar. And the Levites cut the skins from the animals.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;   Passover;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Passover;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;   Priests;  

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 - Hilkiah;   Josiah;   Levites;   Passover;   Sacrifice;   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 - Flay, to;   Josiah ;   Ox, Oxen;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the Levites were skinning the animals, the priests splattered the blood they had been given.
Hebrew Names Version
They killed the Pesach, and the Kohanim sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
King James Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
English Standard Version
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
New Century Version
The Passover lambs were killed. Then the Levites skinned the animals and gave the blood to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.
New English Translation
They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.
Amplified Bible
They slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned the animals.
New American Standard Bible
They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned the animals.
World English Bible
They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they slewe the Passeouer, and the Priests sprinkled the blood with their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests splashed the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned them.
Berean Standard Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.
Contemporary English Version
Then the Levites killed and skinned the Passover lambs, and they handed some of the blood to the priests, who splattered it on the altar.
Complete Jewish Bible
They slaughtered the Pesach lamb; the cohanim splashed [the blood, which they received from the L'vi'im], and the L'vi'im skinned and butchered them.
Darby Translation
And they slaughtered the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Passover lambs were killed. Then the Levites skinned the animals and gave the blood to the priests. The priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.
George Lamsa Translation
And they killed the passover according to the kings command, and the priests sprinkled some of the blood.
Good News Translation
After the lambs and goats had been killed, the Levites skinned them, and the priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.
Lexham English Bible
And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the sacrifices.
Literal Translation
And they slaughtered the passover offering and the priests sprinkled out of their hand, and the Levites were stripping;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they kylled the Passeouer, and the prestes toke it off their handes, and sprenkled it: and the Leuites toke the skynnes off them,
American Standard Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Bible in Basic English
And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they slue passouer, and the priestes sprinckled the blood with their hande, and the Leuites pulled of the skinnes of the beastes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests dashed [the blood, which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
King James Version (1611)
And they killed the Passeouer, and the Priestes sprinckled the blood from their handes, and the Leuites flayed them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they slew the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims.
English Revised Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood, which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And preestis spreynten her hondis with blood, and dekenes drowen of the skynnes of sacrifices, and departiden tho sacrificis,
Update Bible Version
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] from their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
New King James Version
And they slaughtered the Passover offerings; and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hands, while the Levites skinned the animals.
New Living Translation
The Levites then slaughtered the Passover lambs and presented the blood to the priests, who sprinkled the blood on the altar while the Levites prepared the animals.
New Revised Standard
They slaughtered the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they slaughtered the passover, and the priests dashed the blood received at their hand, and the Levites were flaying the offerings .
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:
Revised Standard Version
And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims.
Young's Literal Translation
and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They slaughtered the Passover animals, and while the priests sprinkled the blood received from their hand, the Levites skinned them.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Josiah kept the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He gave the religious leaders their duties and gave them strength to do the work of the Lord's house. 3 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, "Put the holy box of the agreement in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You do not need to carry it on your shoulders any longer. Now work for the Lord your God and His people Israel. 4 Make yourselves ready by your fathers' houses in your groups, in the way that was written by King David of Israel and his son Solomon. 5 Stand in the holy place by the family groups of your brothers who are not religious leaders. And let some of the Levites help each family group of the people. 6 Now kill the Passover animals, and make yourselves holy. Make things ready for your brothers to obey the word of the Lord by Moses." 7 Then Josiah gave flocks of lambs and young goats as Passover gifts for all the people who were there. He gave 30,000 of them, and 3,000 bulls. These were from the king's animals. 8 His leaders also gave a free-will gift to the people, the religious leaders, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, the leaders of the house of God, gave 2,600 animals from the flocks and 300 bulls to the religious leaders for the Passover gifts. 9 Conaniah, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, gave 5,000 animals from the flocks and 500 bulls to the Levites for the Passover gifts. 10 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: 2 Chronicles 29:22-24, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:6, Numbers 18:3, Numbers 18:7, Hebrews 9:21, Hebrews 9:22

flayed them: 2 Chronicles 29:34

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:28 - purifying Ezra 6:20 - killed Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Matthew 26:19 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God made good come to Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Have many children, and cover the earth.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make you a great nation. I will bring good to you. I will make your name great, so you will be honored.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your family after you like the dust of the earth. So if anyone could number the dust of the earth, then he could number your children's children.
Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
Genesis 17:16
And I will bring good to her. I will give you a son by her. I will bring good to her. And she will be the mother of nations. Kings of many people will come from her."
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, because good will come to all the nations of the earth through him?
Genesis 22:17
I will bring good to you. I will add many to the number of your children and all who come after them, like the stars of the heavens and the sand beside the sea. They will take over the cities of those who hate them.
Genesis 28:14
They will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread out to the west and the east and the north and the south. Good will come to all the families of the earth because of you and your children.
Genesis 32:12
But You said, ‘I will bring good to you. I will make your children like the sand of the sea. There will be too many to number.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they killed the passover,.... The lambs for the passover, which was done by the Levites:

and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands; which they received from the Levites, see 2 Chronicles 30:16.

and the Levites flayed them; the passover lambs, took off their skins.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 35:11. They killed the passover — The people themselves might slay their own paschal lambs, and then present the blood to the priests, that they might sprinkle it before the altar; and the Levites flayed them, and made them ready for dressing.


 
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