2 Tawarikh 35:7-8

35:7 From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle. ¹  35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.

2 Tawarikh 35:1

Josiah Observes the Passover

35:1 Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. ²  They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Tawarikh 29:3-9

29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them. 29:4 He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side. 29:5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors! ³  Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean! 29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of ⁴  the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned ⁵  away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. ⁶  29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, ⁷  as you can see with your own eyes. 29:9 Look, our fathers died violently ⁸  and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off ⁹  because of this.

Yehezkiel 45:17

45:17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

Efesus 4:8

4:8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured ¹⁰  captives; he gave gifts to men.” ¹¹ 

[35:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and Josiah supplied for the sons of the people sheep, lambs and sons of goats, the whole for the Passover sacrifices for everyone who was found according to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle. These were from the property of the king.”

[35:1]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[29:5]  ³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[29:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[29:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “turned their faces.”

[29:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and turned the back.”

[29:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”

[29:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “fell by the sword.”

[29:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “are in captivity.”

[4:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he led captive captivity.”

[4:8]  ¹¹ sn A quotation which is perhaps ultimately derived from Ps 68:18. However, the wording here differs from that of Ps 68 in both the Hebrew text and the LXX in a few places, the most significant of which is reading “gave gifts to” in place of “received gifts from” as in HT and LXX. It has sometimes been suggested that the author of Ephesians modified the text he was citing in order to better support what he wanted to say here. Such modifications are sometimes found in rabbinic exegesis from this and later periods, but it is also possible that the author was simply citing a variant of Ps 68 known to him but which has not survived outside its quotation here (W. H. Harris, The Descent of Christ [AGJU 32], 104). Another possibility is that the words here, which strongly resemble Ps 68:19 HT and LXX (68:18 ET), are actually part of an early Christian hymn quoted by the author.