the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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2 Chronik 30:17
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Denn ihrer waren viele in der Gemeinde, die sich nicht geheiligt hatten; darum schlachteten die Leviten das Passah für alle, die nicht rein waren, daß sie dem HERRN geheiligt würden.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Levites: 2 Chronicles 29:34, 2 Chronicles 35:3-6
the killing: Exodus 12:6
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:10 - sanctify Numbers 9:7 - we may not offer 1 Samuel 16:5 - sanctify yourselves 1 Chronicles 15:13 - for that 2 Chronicles 5:11 - sanctified Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Joel 2:16 - sanctify John 11:55 - to purify
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified,.... Or purified from uncleanness, contracted either by idolatry, or through such things which, according to the ceremonial law, made them unclean, and from which they had not now time to cleanse themselves according to the law:
therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for everyone that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord; this they did for the masters of families, who were ceremonially unclean, who otherwise might have killed their passover lambs themselves, see
Exodus 12:6, but now the Levites did it for them, that their passovers might be sanctified and consecrated to the Lord; for, as Philo the Jew says r, one day in a year the whole sacrificed, everyone acted as a priest, and brought and slew his own sacrifice, meaning at the passover.
r De Vita Mosis, l. 3. p. 686. & de Decalogo, p. 766.