2-Kings - 23:23



23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Kings 23:23.

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But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, in which this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. This shows that Josiah must begin the reformation very early that year, since he did all that is before recorded in this and the preceding chapter by the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the passover was kept, which month answers to part of our March and part of April, see 2-Kings 22:3 and was the same year the repairs of the temple were finished.

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