Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:19
[That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
i.e. With that ceremonial purification which was required of them that came into Gods sanctuary. So he calls it, to distinguish from that moral and internal purity which they are here acknowledged to have.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers,…. Who was heartily desirous of worshipping God, and observing his ordinances, which had been enjoined their fathers, and they had kept; though Aben Ezra, as Kimchi observes, refers this to Hezekiah,
whose whole heart he directed, or prepared to seek the Lord, c. by prayer and supplication for everyone of the said persons:
though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary: according to the ceremonial law, which the service of the temple required since, though they were attended with a ceremonial impurity, had a moral purity, and their hearts were right with God.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) That prepareth.Hath directed. The division of verses here is obviously incorrect. (The mistake was doubtless caused by the omission of the relative in the Hebrew between kol, every one, and lbb hkn, his heart he hath directed. The construction is parallel to that in 1Ch. 15:12, unto the place that I have prepared for it; so LXX.) The prayer is, Jehovah the Good atone for every one who hath directed his heart to seek the true God, even Jehovah, the God of his fathers, albeit not (literally, and not) according to the holy purifyingi.e., although he hath not rigorously observed the law of purification.
Purification of the sanctuary.Or, holy purification: a phrase only found here (comp. 1Ch. 23:28).
The prayer evinces a preference of spiritual sincerity to mere literal observance of legal prescriptions, which is all the more remarkable as occurring in a writer whose principal aim is to foster a due reverence for the external ordinances and traditional customs of religion.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 30:19 [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
Ver. 19. That prepareth his heart. ] As well as he is able, though he fall far short of what he should be. The bent, frame, and tendencies of the heart show what the man is.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
prepareth: 2Ch 19:3, 2Ch 20:33, 1Sa 7:3, 1Ch 29:18, Ezr 7:10, Job 11:13, Psa 10:17, Pro 23:26
though he be not: Lev 12:4, Lev 15:31-33, Lev 21:17-23, Lev 22:3-6, Num 9:6, Num 19:13-20
Reciprocal: Exo 19:22 – break 2Sa 6:18 – as soon 2Ki 5:18 – the Lord pardon 2Ch 11:16 – And after 2Ch 12:14 – he prepared 2Ch 14:4 – seek Psa 14:2 – seek Psa 78:8 – set not Lam 3:25 – unto Joe 2:16 – sanctify Act 21:24 – and purify Act 22:14 – The God Rom 7:21 – evil Heb 9:13 – the purifying
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 30:19. That prepareth his heart to seek God The great thing required in our attendance on God in his ordinances is, that we prepare our hearts to seek him; that the inward man, the spirit, be engaged; that we make heart-work of our religion. All is nothing without this. Hezekiah does not pray that this might be dispensed with, or that the want of other things might be pardoned or overlooked, where this was not. For this is the one thing needful, and God is not, cannot be sought acceptably, without it. But he prays that where this was, other deficiencies and omissions, especially such as were of an external and ritual nature, might be pardoned. Though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary With that purification which was required of them that came into Gods sanctuary. So he calls it, to distinguish it from that internal purity which they are here acknowledged to have.