What Does 2 Chronicles 35:17 Mean in the King James?
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
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 shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:THE THREAD
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite 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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