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2 Chronicles 15:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
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Quick Meaning
Calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 15:1–15:7
Calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty. Read 2 Chronicles 15:7 within 15:1–15:7. The complete unit records: The Spirit comes upon Azariah, who tells Asa that God is with those who seek, recalls disorder without teaching priests or law, and urges courageous work with reward.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The oracle interprets the preceding deliverance and calls for durable reform rather than confidence in one victory. In this exact position, the line beginning “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work…” calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty.
Follow the Context
- The Spirit comes upon Azariah, who tells Asa that God is with those who seek, recalls disorder without teaching priests or law, and urges courageous work with reward.
- The oracle interprets the preceding deliverance and calls for durable reform rather than confidence in one victory.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work…”
In plain language: Calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty.
The line beginning “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work…” calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Seeking God does not guarantee a trouble-free life, and social disorder must not be blamed simplistically on a population's private piety.
What Remains True
Calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty, keep it inside 15:1–15:7, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 15:7 calls Asa to courage and promises his work will not be empty. Use 15:1–15:7, paraphrase “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 15:1–15:7 — Azariah interprets seeking, forsaking, and returnSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 15:7 remains within this thought-unit limit: The speech compresses an unspecified past and advances the Chronicler's reciprocity language; its examples cannot become a universal timetable of reward.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 15:1–15:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:1–15:7
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 15:1–15:7, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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