2 Cronache 30:3

La Nuova Diodati

infatti non avevano potuto celebrarla nel tempo stabilito, perch i sacerdoti non si erano santificati in numero sufficiente e il popolo non si era radunato in Gerusalemme.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
giacché non la potevan celebrare al tempo debito, perché i sacerdoti non s’erano santificati in numero sufficiente, e il popolo non s’era radunato in Gerusalemme.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Conciossiachè non l’avessero potuta celebrare in quel tempo; perciocchè i sacerdoti non si erano santificati in numero sufficiente, ed anche il popolo non era raunato in Gerusalemme.

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.