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2 Chronicles 23:2 Explained in Context
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Verse 2. 2And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
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Role in This Section
Gathers Levites and Israelite clan heads from across Judah.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 23:1–23:11
Gathers Levites and Israelite clan heads from across Judah. Read 2 Chronicles 23:2 within 23:1–23:11. The complete unit records: Jehoiada builds a coalition, gathers Levites and clan heads, deploys armed temple guards, presents the Davidic heir, gives him crown and testimony, and acclaims him king.
Why It Needs Context
Gathers Levites and Israelite clan heads from across Judah. Its responsible force depends on 23:1–23:11; isolated from “Jehoiada organizes the coup and crowns Joash,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 23:1–23:11 — Jehoiada organizes the coup and crowns JoashSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 23:1–23:11, 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 23:1–23:11
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