2 Chronicles 35:6
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. 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.
The verse belongs to the account of Josiah's reign and his Passover. The Passover lambs were slain as the sun was setting at the close of the fourteenth day of the first month, and their fat and blood were given to the priests for sprinkling the blood and afterward burning the fat. The lamb was then roasted whole and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs with nothing left until morning in the evening after the fifteenth day had commenced.
Josiah's Passover brought a renewed hope of spiritual revival shortly before the people's final descent into idolatry and sin. It was a time when God blessed His people. The account marks the end of the period when Israel kept the Lord's commandments and statutes, identified as the end of Josiah's reign in 607 B.C. and as the time when the Jews ceased observing release years and Jubilees. As part of Josiah's religious revival, the verse illustrates that great religious revivals lead to vigorous missionary efforts. The verse's Passover setting is a model of reverent, well-ordered worship and respectful conduct.