2 Chronicles 30:3

“For they could not keep it at the time, etc.] 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 <142917>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…”

“At that time - i. e. in the first month, at the time of the events mentioned in 2 Chronicles 29:0. return to 'Top of Page'”

“They kept - Not in the same manner as they had done the former, V. 3. Sufficiently - In such manner as was fit, nor in such numbers as but in the solemn worship of God, by sacrifices, and prayers, and praise, were necessary for the slaying and offering of so many thousands of and publick instruction of that great congregation in the good knowledge paschal - offerings, as appears, because they were not sufficient for of the Lord; which was most necessary for the people after so long and those offerings, which were comparatively few, Ch2 29:32-34. dismal a night of ignorance, superstition and idolatry. 2 Chronicles 30:10”

“at that time: Exo 12:6, Exo 12:18 because: Ch2 29:34 2 Chronicles 30:4”