What Does 2 Chronicles 35:17 Mean?
And the children of Israel who were found there made the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.THE KEY
Passover is not only a night of escape; here it opens into seven days of shared life shaped by deliverance.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where a decisive crossing gives way to ordinary days: deliverance takes a shared, lived span. One feast opens into seven days, letting freedom occupy time together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that deliverance is exhausted by one dramatic moment; the crossing opens into a whole shared week.
THE ROOT
פֶּסַח
pesaḥ
GROWS FROM
פסח
To pass over, step over, or spare.
“Passover” in this verse is pesaḥ. The feast’s name carries an action: passing over. The verse shows that action taking communal form in a meal and a week of observance, so deliverance extends into shared time.
ALSO GROWS
pāsaḥ: To pass over or spare.
פָּסַח
This is the verb behind the feast’s name; it reveals the movement carried within “Passover.”
pesaḥ: The Passover feast.
פֶּסַח
The noun names the shared observance that gives the act of passing over a place in the community’s life.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is carried forward when a community gives it a shared, embodied place in time.
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.You shall eat no soured bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unsoured bread with it, the bread of being bent low, for in flight you came out of the land of Egypt, so that you may remember the day you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.And he said to them, I have longed with longing to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.THE THREAD
And the blood will be a mark for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will leap over you, and the blow will not be upon you to ruin you when I strike down the land of Egypt.The verb “pass over” and the feast name “Passover” share the root פסח (pāsaḥ, pass over). Exodus gives the action within the name; 2 Chronicles shows the community keeping that passage alive through a feast and seven days together.
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