Bible Study on “Passover”

Meaning of “Passover”

  1. Passover — the name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord's passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first born of all the Egyptians were destroyed. It is called also the "feast of unleavened bread" (Ex. 23:15; Mark 14:1; Acts 12:3), because during its celebration no leavened bread was to be eaten or even kept in the household (Ex. 12:15). The word afterwards came to denote the lamb that was slain at the feast (Mark 14:12-14; 1 Cor. 5:7). A detailed account of the institution of this feast is given in Ex. 12 and 13. It was afterwards incorporated in the ceremonial law (Lev. 23:4-8) as one of the great festivals of the nation. In after times many changes seem to have taken place as to the mode of its celebration as compared with its first celebration (comp. Deut. 16:2, 5, 6; 2 Chr. 30:16; Lev. 23:10-14; Num. 9:10, 11; 28:16-24). Again, the use of wine (Luke 22:17, 20), of sauce with the bitter herbs (John 13:26), and the service of praise were introduced. There is recorded only one celebration of this feast between the Exodus and the entrance into Canaan, namely, that mentioned in Num. 9:5. (See JOSIAH »T0002116.) It was primarily a commemorative ordinance, reminding the children of Israel of their deliverance out of Egypt; but it was, no doubt, also a type of the great deliverance wrought by the Messiah for all his people from the doom of death on account of sin, and from the bondage of sin itself, a worse than Egyptian bondage (1 Cor. 5:7; John 1:29; 19:32-36; 1 Pet. 1:19; Gal. 4:4, 5). The appearance of Jerusalem on the occasion of the Passover in the time of our Lord is thus fittingly described: "The city itself and the neighbourhood became more and more crowded as the feast approached, the narrow streets and dark arched bazaars showing the same throng of men of all nations as when Jesus had first visited Jerusalem as a boy. Even the temple offered a strange sight at this season, for in parts of the outer courts a wide space was covered with pens for sheep, goats, and cattle to be used for offerings. Sellers shouted the merits of their beasts, sheep bleated, oxen lowed. Sellers of doves also had a place set apart for them. Potters offered a choice from huge stacks of clay dishes and ovens for roasting and eating the Passover lamb. Booths for wine, oil, salt, and all else needed for sacrifices invited customers. Persons going to and from the city shortened their journey by crossing the temple grounds, often carrying burdens...Stalls to change foreign money into the shekel of the temple, which alone could be paid to the priests, were numerous, the whole confusion making the sanctuary like a noisy market" (Geikie's Life of Christ).

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  1. Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 48 — And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

  2. Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 43 — And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

  3. Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 27 — That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

  4. Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 21 — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

  5. Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 11 — And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's passover.

  6. Exodus Chapter 34 Verse 25 — Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

  7. Leviticus Chapter 23 Verse 5 — In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

  8. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 14 — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

  9. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 13 — But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  10. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 12 — They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

  11. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 10 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

  12. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 6 — And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

  13. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 5 — And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

  14. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 4 — And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

  15. Numbers Chapter 9 Verse 2 — Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

  16. Numbers Chapter 28 Verse 16 — And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

  17. Numbers Chapter 33 Verse 3 — And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

  18. Deuteronomy Chapter 16 Verse 6 — But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

  19. Deuteronomy Chapter 16 Verse 5 — Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

  20. Deuteronomy Chapter 16 Verse 2 — Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

  21. Deuteronomy Chapter 16 Verse 1 — Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

  22. Joshua Chapter 5 Verse 11 — And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

  23. Joshua Chapter 5 Verse 10 — And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

  24. 2 Kings Chapter 23 Verse 23 — But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

  25. 2 Kings Chapter 23 Verse 22 — Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

  26. 2 Kings Chapter 23 Verse 21 — And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

  27. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 18 — For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every

  28. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 17 — For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

  29. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 15 — Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

  30. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 5 — So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

  31. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 2 — For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

  32. 2 Chronicles Chapter 30 Verse 1 — And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

  33. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 19 — In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

  34. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 18 — And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  35. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 17 — And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

  36. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 16 — So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

  37. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 13 — And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.

  38. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 11 — And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

  39. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 9 — Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

  40. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 8 — And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.

  41. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 7 — And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

  42. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 6 — So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

  43. 2 Chronicles Chapter 35 Verse 1 — Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

  44. Ezra Chapter 6 Verse 20 — For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

  45. Ezra Chapter 6 Verse 19 — And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

  46. Ezekiel Chapter 45 Verse 21 — In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

  47. Matthew Chapter 26 Verse 19 — And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

  48. Matthew Chapter 26 Verse 18 — And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

  49. Matthew Chapter 26 Verse 17 — Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

  50. Matthew Chapter 26 Verse 2 — Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

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