Ezra 6:19

“And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.] The month Nisan or Abib, which was the month following that in which the temple was finished, (<150615>Ezra 6:15), this passover was kept at the exact time the law commanded, (<021202>Exodus 12:2,6).”

“With this verse the writer resumes the use of the Hebrew language, which he had discarded for the Chaldee from Ezra 4:8. With the exception of the letter of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12-26, all the remainder of the book is in Hebrew. return to 'Top of Page'”

“6:19 The Passover celebration commemorates God’s sparing of the firstborn of each family that put blood on the doorposts of their home (Exod 12–13). This occasion was the first time any of these people had celebrated a joyous national festival.”

“the children: Ezr 6:16 kept: Exod. 12:6-36; Jos 5:10; 2Chr. 30:1-35:27 Ezra 6:20”

“Celebration of the feast of the passover, and of the feast of unleavened bread, in the year following the dedication, as an historical testimony to the fact that the worship of God with its festivals was regularly carried on in the new temple. Ezr 6:19-20 The feast of the passover, on the fourteenth day of the first month, took place only a few weeks after the dedication of the temple. The reason given in Ezr 6:20 \- for the priests and Levites had purified themselves without exception (כּאחד, like Ezr 3:9); they were all clean, and they killed the passover for all the sons of the captivity (i.e., the laity who had returned from exile), and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves…”