2 Chronicles 35:18 - Exposition

Upon this verse Professor Murphy says, "The Passover in Hezekiah's time was great ( 2 Chronicles 30:26 ), but this was greater. For it was kept on the proper day in the first month, and was not a mere supplementary Passover; it was observed with due regularity, and not by worshippers some of whom were unclean; and if we allow thirteen persons for each lamb or kid, there were upwards of half a million communicants; while, so far as we know, there were only seventeen thousand sheep presented by Hezekiah and his princes ( 2 Chronicles 30:24 ), which would not supply more than half the number of partakers.