Bible Commentary

For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him. 9. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:9”

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. 8. yield yourselves ] Lit. “give the hand”; cp. 1Ch 29:24 (“submitted themselves”). … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:8”

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. 7. who therefore gave them up to desolation ] Render, so that he gave them up to be an astonishment (so R.V. mg.); cp. 2Ch … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:7”

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:6”

So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written. 5. to make proclamation ] A … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:5”

And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. 4. pleased the king ] R.V. was right in the eyes of the king. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges And the thing pleased the king, and all the congregation. They all unanimously agreed to it, and determined it should be done. Fuente: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:4”

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. 3. at that time ] In the first month. sufficiently ] R.V. in sufficient number. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges At that time – i. e. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:3”

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. 2. in the second month ] The Law allowed such a postponement; cp. Num 9:10-11. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges In the second month – Hezekiah and his counselors … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:2”

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel. Ch. 2Ch 30:1-12 (not in 2 Kin.). Hezekiah Invites all Israel to keep the Passover This Passover … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:1”

And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly. 36. that God had prepared the people ] R.V. because of that which God had prepared for the people. It was God, not Hezekiah, who had done it all. suddenly ] In the very first year … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 29:36”