Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
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- WEB Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
- KJV Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
- BSB And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- NKJV Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
- NLT On the fourteenth day of the second month, one month later than usual, the people slaughtered the Passover lamb. This shamed the priests and Levites, so they purified themselves and brought burnt offerings to the Temple of the Lord.
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They killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day, and the priests and Levites, ashamed, consecrated themselves and brought offerings. It matters because conviction led the clergy to renewed holiness.
Overview
The people's zeal stirred the priests and Levites to shame over their own unreadiness, prompting them to sanctify themselves. The Passover was then observed with proper sacrifices in the temple. The slain Passover lamb, central to this scene, points forward to Christ our Passover, whose blood delivers His people from death.
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- 2 Chr 29:34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- Exod 19:10Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- 2 Chr 30:24For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
- 2 Chr 5:11When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
- 2 Chr 31:18and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.
- 2 Chr 29:15They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.
- Ezek 16:61–63Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
- Exod 19:22Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
- Ezek 43:10–11You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
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