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2 Chronicles 29:24

in 2 Chronicles 29

And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt-offering and the sin-offering should be made for all Israel.

KJV

And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 29

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
All lsrael - Hezekiah aimed at reuniting once more the whole people of Israel, if not into a single state, yet, at any rate, into a single religious communion. The northern kingdom was in a condition approaching to anarchy. The end was evidently approaching. Hoshea, the king contemporary with Hezekiah 2Ki 18:1, ruled, not as an independent monarch, but as an Assyrian feudatory 2Ki 17:3. Under these circumstances Hezekiah designed to invite the revolted tribes to return, if not to their old temporal, at least to their old spiritual, allegiance 2Ch 30:5-

This site's exposition

So they slaughtered the bulls

on 2 Chronicles 29:22-24

The king and the assembly lay their hands on the goats, and Gill reads the gesture by the pattern of substitution Leviticus 1 sets out. Hezekiah already reaches toward the northern tribes, the reach that becomes a letter to Ephraim and Manasseh in chapter 30.

This site's exposition

to make atonement for all Israel

Barnes reads the king's order as the first step of a plan to bring the northern tribes back into one worship. The plan takes shape at 30:5. Matthew Henry sets the widened offering beside 1 John 2:2, where Christ is the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the L ORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), and not for Judah only. Christ is a propitiation, not for the sins of Israel only, but of the whole world, 1 John ii. While the offerings were burning upon the altar the Levites sang the song of the Lord (

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And the priests killed them,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

At the close of the special services of the occasion, namely, the offering of atonement sacrifices, the king and all civic rulers who were present joined in the worship.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁחָטוּם֙and they slaughtered them

    vaiyishchatumH7819 →81 times

  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • וַֽיְחַטְּא֤וּand they made a sin offering

    vaychateuH2398 →238 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • דָּמָם֙blood their

    damamH1818 →360 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חָהthe altar towards

    hamizbechahH4196 →401 times

  • לְכַפֵּ֖רto make atonement

    lekhaperH3722 →

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לְכָל־for all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe had said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • הָעוֹלָ֖הthe burnt offering

    haolahH5930 →287 times

  • וְהַחַטָּֽאת׃and the sin offering

    vehachatatH2403 →295 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:15

    And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 1:4

      He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.

    • Leviticus 6:30

      But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:17

    And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 66:23

      From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 31:3

      The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of…

    • Ezekiel 46:4–12

      The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.

    • 1 Kings 8:63–64

      And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.

    • Ezekiel 43:27

      At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.’”

  • Through

    Leviticus 14:20

    and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 14:10

      On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil,…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.