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Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 35:12

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2 Chronicles35:12

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 .

i. e. Those Cattel which were to be offered for Burnt-offerings, to wit, some of the lesser Cattel: for these also might be offered as burnt-offerings. Levit. 1. 10. And hence it may seem that all these small Cattel were not given to the People to be eaten by them for their Paschal-lambs, but that some of them were to be offered as burnt-offerings for the People. And these they put apart by themselves, partly lest they should be confounded with them which were for another use; and partly, that they might not be hindred from that which was their present and more immediate work, as it follows, that they might give, To wit, the Paschal-lambs or Kids.

These words may belong either 1. to the more remote words, the burnt-offerings, the other words being to be put within a Parenthesis, or there being a trajection in the words, which is frequent in Scripture, and which is here observed by some learned Interpreters. Or, 2. to the last words, and to the Paschal-lambs, which they were first to be offered to the Lord, by Killing them and sprinkling the Blood, as was noted before, and then to be given to the People; though the giving be here mentioned before the offering; such transpositions being usual in Scripture and other Authors.

To wit, as they did with the lesser Cattel, of which see the first Note on this Verse. They removed those Oxen which were to be offered as Burnt-offerings, from those which were to be offered as Peace▪ offerings.

Marginal references: Lev. 3. 3.

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