2 Chronik 30:3

Schlachter Bibel

denn sie konnten es nicht zur bestimmten Zeit feiern, weil sich die Priester nicht in genügender Zahl geheiligt hatten und das Volk noch nicht in Jerusalem versammelt war.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Denn sie konnten's nicht halten zur selben Zeit, darum daß der Priester nicht genug geheiligt waren und das Volk noch nicht zuhauf gekommen war gen Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at that time: Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:18

because: 2 Chronicles 29:34

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:22 - break 2 Chronicles 35:6 - sanctify

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they could not keep it at the time,.... In the month Nisan, as the Targum adds, on the fourteenth day of the month, as the law enjoined, because the cleansing of the temple was not finished until the sixteenth day, see 2 Chronicles 29:17 and, besides this, two other reasons follow:

because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently; that is, a sufficient number of them were not sanctified, to slay all the passover lambs the people that came to the feast would want:

neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem; they had no notice of it, nor summons for it; and it was required that, at such a time, all the males in the land should appear at Jerusalem; but this custom having been long disused, it required time to acquaint them of the revival of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

At that time - i. e. in the first month, at the time of the events mentioned in 2 Chronicles 29:0.