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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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, Ezra 6:15, this passover was kept at the exact time the law commanded, Exodus 12:2.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure,.... They were all to a man pure, and all purified as one man; all were of one mind to purify themselves, and took care to do it, and did it with as much dispatch as if only one man was purified; so that they were more generally prepared for service now than in the times...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity,.... The tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some of the ten tribes mixed with them: and all such as had separated themselves unto them, from the filthiness of the Heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat; such of the Gentiles in the dominions of Babylon, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy,.... Which immediately followed upon the passover, Exodus 12:18, for the Lord had made them joyful; the building of the temple being finished, and the service of it restored to its original purity; and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work...