Verse Lens · Context pointer
2 Chronicles 29:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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Role in This Section
Interprets visible Judahite trouble, astonishment, and scorn.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 29:1–29:11
Interprets visible Judahite trouble, astonishment, and scorn. Read 2 Chronicles 29:8 within 29:1–29:11. The complete unit records: Hezekiah begins well, opens and repairs temple doors, names ancestral unfaithfulness and its communal consequences, and calls chosen Levites to remove filth and resume service.
Why It Needs Context
Interprets visible Judahite trouble, astonishment, and scorn. Its responsible force depends on 29:1–29:11; isolated from “Hezekiah opens the temple and calls Levites to cleanse it,” 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 29:1–29:11 — Hezekiah opens the temple and calls Levites to cleanse itSources 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 29:1–29:11, 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 29:1–29:11
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