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2 Chronicles 30:16 Explained in Context

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Verse 16. And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

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Role in This Section

Restores Mosaic positions and priestly blood service through Levite hands.

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  • 2 Chronicles 30:13–30:22

Restores Mosaic positions and priestly blood service through Levite hands. Read 2 Chronicles 30:16 within 30:13–30:22. The complete unit records: The crowd removes Jerusalem altars, priests and Levites are ashamed into sanctification, many participants lack prescribed cleansing, Hezekiah prays for those who prepared their hearts, and the LORD heals the people during seven joyful days.

Why It Needs Context

Restores Mosaic positions and priestly blood service through Levite hands. Its responsible force depends on 30:13–30:22; isolated from “An irregular assembly celebrates and receives prayer,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.

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Read 2 Chronicles 30:13–30:22 — An irregular assembly celebrates and receives prayer
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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.

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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 30:13–30:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 30:13–30:22

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