And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chronicles 30:1-27 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

2 Kings 23:21-23 And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant. . . .

the fourteenth

Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

Numbers 9:3 The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof.

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. . . .

Ezra 6:19 And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezekiel 45:21 In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

2 Kings 23:21 And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.

is very particularly related her, while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the Kings, and here only touched upon. The feasts of the Lord God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but the passover was the chief. It was the first which was solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and ushered in those which were afterwards instituted: and it was the last great feast which was held in the night wherein Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in twain. Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah revived religion in their day.