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2 Chronicles 30:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
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Quick Meaning
Names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 30:13–30:22
Names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure. Read 2 Chronicles 30:18 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 This Verse Appears Here
The celebration holds ritual order and compassionate accommodation together rather than letting one erase the other. In this exact position, the line beginning “For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and…” names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure.
Follow the Context
- 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.
- The celebration holds ritual order and compassionate accommodation together rather than letting one erase the other.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and…”
In plain language: Names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure.
The line beginning “For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and…” names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure.
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
The healing does not make prayer a substitute for medicine, make illness proof of ritual failure, or allow leaders to ignore safety and consent.
What Remains True
Names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure. 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 names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure, keep it inside 30:13–30:22, 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 30:18 names northern participants eating contrary to written procedure. Use 30:13–30:22, paraphrase “For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and…,” 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 30:13–30:22 — An irregular assembly celebrates and receives prayerSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 30:18 remains within this thought-unit limit: The nature of the healing and exact ritual irregularity are not medically or historically recoverable; the narrator emphasizes accepted intent without abolishing all practice.
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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 30:13–30:22, 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 30:13–30:22
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
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 30:13–30:22, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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