(19) In the eighteenth year.--2Kings 23:23.

Kept.--Made (na'as?h). For the date, comp. 2Chronicles 34:8. The religious reformation appropriately culminated in a splendid celebration of the Passover.

Verse 19. - The date is stamped as ever-memorable, ever-honorable landmark in Josiah's reign.

35:1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord.And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel,.... So exactly according to the law, so universally by Israel and Judah, and with such liberality shown by the king, and the chief of the priests and Levites; of this, and the following verse; see Gill on 2 Kings 23:22; see Gill on 2 Kings 23:23