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2Ch 29:17 — Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the porch		2Ch 29:7; 2Ch 3:4; 1Ki 6:3; 1Ch 28:11
the sixteenth		Exd 12:2-8

Correlating Passages

the porch

	2Ch 29:7	Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.
	2Ch 3:4	And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
	1Ki 6:3	And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
	1Ch 28:11	Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

the sixteenth

	Exd 12:2	This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
	Exd 12:3	Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house:
	Exd 12:4	And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
	Exd 12:5	Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
	Exd 12:6	And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
	Exd 12:7	And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
	Exd 12:8	And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Chronicles 29:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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