"And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled {the blood} from their hands, and the Levites flayed {them}." — 2 Chronicles 35:11

2 Chronicles 35:11 · KJV

“And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled {the blood} from their hands, and the Levites flayed {them}.”

— 2 Chronicles 35:11

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

Verse 12

And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as {it is} written in the book of Moses. And so {did they} with the oxen.

2 Chronicles 35 — Context

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand {small cattle}, and five hundred oxen. {gave: Heb. offered}

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled {the blood} from their hands, and the Levites flayed {them}.

And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the {other} holy {offerings} sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided {them} speedily among all the people. {divided...: Heb. made them run}

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:34

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the {other} priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites {were} more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. {did help...: Heb. strengthened them}

Numbers 18:7

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office {unto you} as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Leviticus 1:5-6

And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that {is by} the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

2 Chronicles 30:16

And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, {which they received} of the hand of the Levites. {their place: Heb. their standing}

Hebrews 9:21-22

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

Numbers 18:3

And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

2 Chronicles 29:22-24

So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled {it} on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.