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2 Chronicles 30:4 Explained in Context
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Verse 4. 4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Hezekiah invites all Israel to a delayed Passover.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 30:1–12
Read 2 Chronicles 30:4 with 30:1–12. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Letters go from Beersheba to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting return to Jerusalem; the second-month date addresses priestly and attendance constraints, some mock the messengers, others humble themselves and come.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 30:4 depends on 30:1–12; isolating “And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Hezekiah invites all Israel to a delayed Passover.”
Read 2 Chronicles 30:1–12 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 30:1–12 forms the complete movement “Hezekiah invites all Israel to a delayed Passover”: Letters go from Beersheba to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting return to Jerusalem; the second-month date addresses priestly and attendance constraints, some mock the messengers, others humble themselves and come.
Verse 1. 1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
Verse 2. 2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
Verse 3. 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
Verse 4. 4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
Verse 5. 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
Verse 6. 6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Verse 7. 7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Verse 8. 8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Verse 9. 9 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
Verse 10. 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
Verse 11. 11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
Verse 12. 12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 30:1–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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