SEV Biblia, Chapter 35:18
Nunca tal pascua fue hecha en Israel desde los días de Samuel el profeta; ni ningϊn rey de Israel hizo pascua tal como la que hizo el rey Josías, y los sacerdotes y levitas, y todo Judα e Israel, los que se hallaron presentes , juntamente con los moradores de Jerusalιn.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:18
Verse 18. There was no passover like to that] "That which distinguished this passover from all the former was," says Calmet, "the great liberality of Josiah, who distributed to his people a greater number of victims than either David or Solomon had done."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18-19. And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel , etc.] So exactly according to the law, so universally by Israel and Judah, and with such liberality shown by the king, and the chief of the priests and Levites; of this, and the following verse, (see Gill on 2 Kings 23:22), (see Gill on 2 Kings 23:23) Ver. 20 . After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple , etc.] Purified it, and cleansed it from the filth in it, and from all idolatry, and had repaired it, and put the service of it in good order, and on a good footing, after which great prosperity in church and state might have been expected: Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates ; now called Querquisia, supposed by some to be the same with the Cadytis of Herodotus, which that historian calls a great city of Syria, whither he says Necho went after the battle with the Syrians f159 ; of which (See Gill on Isaiah 10:9) and of this king of Egypt, (See Gill on 2 Kings 23:29) (See Gill on Jeremiah 46:2) and Josiah went out against him ; or to meet him, and stop him from going through his land, which lay between Egypt and Syria; Egypt being on the south of Israel, and Euphrates on the north of it, as Jarchi observes.
Ver. 18-19. And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel , etc.] So exactly according to the law, so universally by Israel and Judah, and with such liberality shown by the king, and the chief of the priests and Levites; of this, and the following verse, (see Gill on 2 Kings 23:22), (see Gill on 2 Kings 23:23) Ver. 20 . After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple , etc.] Purified it, and cleansed it from the filth in it, and from all idolatry, and had repaired it, and put the service of it in good order, and on a good footing, after which great prosperity in church and state might have been expected: Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates ; now called Querquisia, supposed by some to be the same with the Cadytis of Herodotus, which that historian calls a great city of Syria, whither he says Necho went after the battle with the Syrians f159 ; of which (See Gill on Isaiah 10:9) and of this king of Egypt, (See Gill on 2 Kings 23:29) (See Gill on Jeremiah 46:2) and Josiah went out against him ; or to meet him, and stop him from going through his land, which lay between Egypt and Syria; Egypt being on the south of Israel, and Euphrates on the north of it, as Jarchi observes.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-19 - The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewis festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belongin to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord.
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 נעשׂה 6213 פסח 6453 כמהו 3644 בישׂראל 3478 מימי 3117 שׁמואל 8050 הנביא 5030 וכל 3605 מלכי 4428 ישׂראל 3478 לא 3808 עשׂו 6213 כפסח 6453 אשׁר 834 עשׂה 6213 יאשׁיהו 2977 והכהנים 3548 והלוים 3881 וכל 3605 יהודה 3063 וישׂראל 3478 הנמצא 4672 ויושׁבי 3427 ירושׁלם׃ 3389
