2 Chronicles 35 · Verse 10

2 Chronicles 35:10

So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
2 Chronicles 35:10, King James Version

2 Chronicles 35:10 in other translations

BSBSo the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
WEBSo the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
ASVSo the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
YLTAnd the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,
DARBYAnd the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
BBESo everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
WebsterSo the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

What does 2 Chronicles 35:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 35:10-11
10-11. So the service was prepared, &c.--All the necessary preparations having been completed, and the appointed time having arrived for the passover, the solemnity was celebrated. One remarkable feature in the account is the prominent part that was taken by the Levites in the preparation of the sacrifices; namely, the killing and stripping of the skins, which were properly the peculiar duties of the priests; but as those functionaries were not able to overtake the extraordinary amount of work and the Levites had been duly sanctified for the service, they were enlisted for the time in this priestly employment. At the passover in Hezekiah's time, the Levites officiated in the same departments of duty, the reason assigned for that deviation from the established rule being the unprepared state of many of the people (2Ch 30:17). But on this occasion the whole people had been duly sanctified, and therefore the exceptional enlistment of the Levites' services must have been rendered unavoidably necessary from the multitudes engaged in celebrating the passover.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 35:1-19

The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to…

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2 Chronicles 35:10 in the original Hebrew

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וַתִּכּ֖וֹןva.ti.Konand it was arrangedH3559
הָעֲבוֹדָ֑הha.'a.vo.Dahthe serviceH5656
וַיַּֽעַמְד֨וּvai.ya.'am.Duand they took their standH5975
הַכֹּהֲנִ֧יםha.ko.ha.Nimthe priestsH3548
עַל\־'al-atH5921
עָמְדָ֛ם'a.me.Damplace theirH5977
וְהַלְוִיִּ֥םve.hal.vi.Yimand the LevitesH3881
עַל\־'al-onH5921
מַחְלְקוֹתָ֖םmach.le.ko.Tamdivisions theirH4256
כְּמִצְוַ֥תke.mitz.Vataccording to [the] command ofH4687
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ\׃ha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 35:10

  • 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.

  • Ezra 6:18

    And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:4-5

    And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the priests.
4,5; 30:16; Ezr 6:18

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 35:9

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:10

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

  • 2 Chronicles 35:11

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

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2 Chronicles 35:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Aprestado así el servicio, los sacerdotes se colocaron en sus puestos, y asimismo los Levitas en sus órdenes, conforme al mandamiento del rey.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et le service fut réglé, et les sacrificateurs se tinrent à leurs places, et les lévites dans leurs divisions, selon le commandement du roi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und der Dienst wurde eingerichtet; und die Priester standen an ihrer Stelle und die Leviten in ihren Abteilungen, nach dem Gebote des Königs.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Præparatumque est ministerium, et steterunt sacerdotes in officio suo: Levitæ quoque in turmis, juxta regis imperium.