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2 Chronicles 15:19 Explained in Context
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Verse 19. 19And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Maachah is deposed and reforms remain incomplete.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 15:16–19
Read 2 Chronicles 15:19 with 15:16–19. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Asa removes Maachah from queen-mother status for her cult image, destroys it, leaves high places in Israel, brings dedicated gifts to the temple, and experiences a period without war.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 15:19 depends on 15:16–19; isolating “And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Maachah is deposed and reforms remain incomplete.”
Read 2 Chronicles 15:16–19 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 15:16–19 forms the complete movement “Maachah is deposed and reforms remain incomplete”: Asa removes Maachah from queen-mother status for her cult image, destroys it, leaves high places in Israel, brings dedicated gifts to the temple, and experiences a period without war.
Verse 16. 16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
Verse 17. 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
Verse 18. 18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
Verse 19. 19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 15:16–19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:16–19
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