Note 64 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 4)
Reading edition
An instance of Passover being put off because of the unfitness of the priests to offer up sacrifices is met with in the Second Book of Chronicles (xxx. 2). It seems similar to the rule of Pesach sheni, but is in reality different from it. King Hezekiah did not put off the Passover sacrifice for a month on account of the uncleanness of the priests, but he made the preceding year a leap-year, and the month which would have been the second became the first, whilst the first was counted as the thirteenth of the past year (comp. Mishnah, Pesachim iv. 9). ↑