{"id":11863,"date":"2022-09-24T04:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-3024\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:14:48","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-3024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-3024\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:24"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 24<\/strong>. <em> did give to the congregation<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> did give to the congregation for offerings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> sanctified themselves<\/em> ] Cp. <span class='bible'>2Ch 29:34<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Hezekiah did give to the congregation; <\/B>first to God, to whom the parts appointed were offered in way of thanksgiving; and then to the people, who feasted upon the relics, as the offerer used to do in peace-offerings; and Hezekiah, who was the offerer, gave away his right in the remains of the sacrifices to the people. <\/P> <P><B>A thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; <\/B>which generosity is the more considerable, because it was in the beginning of his reign, when he found the royal exchequer exhausted and empty; and when he had been at great expense about the cleansing and refitting of the temple, and making preparations for this great feast. <\/P> <P><B>A great number of priests sanctified themselves; <\/B>having now both more time and further need of sanctifying themselves to offer these numerous sacrifices. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>24. and a great number of priestssanctified themselves<\/B>so that there would be a sufficientnumber of hands for the additional services.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation one thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep<\/strong>,&#8230;. He separated them, as Kimchi interprets it, from his own herds and flocks; or out of his own substance, at his own expense purchased them; or lifted them up, as the word signifies, as heave offerings to the Lord; and gave them to the people for thank offerings to feast upon:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the princes gave to the congregation one thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep<\/strong>: for the same purposes, following the king&#8217;s example:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and a great number of priests sanctified themselves<\/strong>; besides those who had before, that they might be fit to offer this great number of sacrifices.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(24) <strong>Did give . . . gave.<\/strong><em>Had presented<\/em> (<span class='bible'>Exo. 35:24<\/span>)<em>scil.,<\/em> for sacrifice as a <em>trmh,<\/em> or heave offering. The gifts of king and princes for the Mazzth festival were so abundant that they sufficed not only for the feast itself, but also for an additional week of rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And a great number of priests.<\/strong>Literally, <em>and priests had sanctified themselves in multitude,<\/em> or <em>to abundance.<\/em> The priests no longer hung back as they had done previously (<span class='bible'>2Ch. 30:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 30:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 29:34<\/span>). There was now no lack of persons duly purified for the sacrifice of so many victims.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ch 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 24. <strong> And the princes gave a thousand bullocks.<\/strong> ] Neither the king nor princes spared for cost to further so good a motion, and to draw the people to stay with delight; those of the ten tribes especially, that they may be better instructed.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>did give: Heb. lifted up, or offered, 2Ch 35:7, 2Ch 35:8, 1Ch 29:3-9, Eze 45:17, Eph 4:8 <\/p>\n<p>a great: 2Ch 29:34 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Sa 6:19 &#8211; he dealt 1Ki 3:4 &#8211; a thousand 1Ki 8:63 &#8211; a sacrifice 1Ch 16:3 &#8211; to every one 2Ch 7:5 &#8211; a sacrifice 2Ch 30:15 &#8211; and sanctified 2Ch 31:3 &#8211; the king&#8217;s Luk 14:13 &#8211; call Act 6:7 &#8211; the priests<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Ch 30:24. Hezekiah did give a thousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep  First to God, to whom the parts appointed were offered in a way of thanksgiving; and then to the people, who feasted upon the relics, as the offerer used to do in peace-offerings: and Hezekiah, who was the offerer, gave away his right in the remains of the sacrifices to the people. Which generosity is the more considerable, because it was in the beginning of his reign, when he found the exchequer empty; and when he had been at great expense about cleansing and refitting the temple, and making preparations for this great feast. By this great liberality of the king and princes, God was honoured, the joy of the festival was kept up, and the strangers were encouraged to come again to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a {p} thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.<\/p>\n<p>(p) This great liberality declares how kings, princes and all they to whom God has given, should be ready to bestow it in the setting forth of God&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 24. did give to the congregation ] R.V. did give to the congregation for offerings. sanctified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-3024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 30:24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}