◄ 2 Chronicles 30:16 ►
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Good News Translation
They took their places in the Temple according to the instructions in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites gave the blood of the sacrifices to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.

New Revised Standard Version
They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests dashed the blood that they received from the hands of the Levites.

New American Bible
They stood in the places prescribed for them according to the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests splashed the blood given them by the Levites;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they stood in their order according to the disposition and law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they stood in their order according to the disposition and law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,

they stood

2 Chronicles 35:10,15 And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment. . . .

place [heb] standing

2 Kings 11:14 She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.

Moses

Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

the priests

2 Chronicles 35:10,11 And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment. . . .

Leviticus 1:5 And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.

Hebrews 11:28 By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

Context
Hezekiah Celebrates the Passover
…15And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord. 16And they stood in their order according to the disposition and law of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which was to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,17Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:31
And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the Lord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and justifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the things that were written in that book which he had read.

2 Chronicles 35:10
And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment.

2 Chronicles 35:15
And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore their brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.

2 Chronicles 30:15
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