Kept the passover on the fourteenth day] of Nisan, as ordained in Exodus 12:6. They had probably selected the lambs four days before, immediately on their arrival at the camp (see on Joshua 4:19); and had rested quietly for three full days after the circumcision. This is the third recorded Passover; the second (Numbers 9:5) being the first anniversary of the institution. There are only three subsequent observances of the Passover recorded in the OT., viz. Josiah's (2 Kings 23:21), Hezekiah's (2 Chronicles 30), and that of the returned exiles (Ezra 6:19.), and all of these are after the discovery of the Book of the Law by Hilkiah in 621 b.c. But a notice in 2 Chronicles 8:13 ascribes to Solomon similar observances, and critics admit (cp. HDB. art. 'Passover') that unrecorded observances may have gone on all along.

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