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2 Chronicles 30:4

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This proposal pleased the king and the whole assembly.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

KJV

And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hoshea, the reigning king, is described as, though evil in some respects, yet more favorably disposed to religious liberty than any of his predecessors since the separation of the kingdom. This is thought to be the meaning of the mitigating clause in his character (2Ki 17:2).

This site's exposition

pleased the king and the whole assembly

on 2 Chronicles 30:4-6

The decree gives formal shape to what the king and “the whole assembly” had already agreed. Its reach, “from Beersheba to Dan”, is the border language of the united kingdom, spoken to a north divided. Verse 5 gives the reason: “they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the thing pleased the king, and all the congregation. They all unanimously agreed to it, and determined it should be done.

How the passage was read

On 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

On 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

The Passover held a month late

Hezekiah's great Passover is kept in the SECOND month, and that is not an irregularity he invented: the Law itself provides a one-month make-up date for those unclean or far off (Numbers 9:10–11, the “Second Passover”). Hezekiah applies the provision nationally because the priests and the people could not be ready in time. Notice the chapter's heart: many northerners ate the Passover ritually unclean, and the king prays for them, “may the good LORD pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God,” and the LORD heals the people. The feast's paperwork bends; the seeking heart is heard.

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Sources: Numbers 9:10–11 (the Second-Passover provision) · Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (the provision in the oral law)

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַיִּישַׁ֥רand it was pleasing

    vaiyisharH3474 →

  • הַדָּבָ֖רthe thing

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • הַמֶּ֑לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וּבְעֵינֵ֖יand in [the] eyes of

    uveeineiH5869 →887 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַקָּהָֽל׃the assembly

    hakahalH6951 →123 times

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Chronicles 13:4And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.2 works2 Samuel 17:4This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.2 worksActs 15:22Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,2 worksGenesis 45:16When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.2 worksJoshua 22:30When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.2 worksZechariah 11:12Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.0 works

The walk

3 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

    1 Chronicles 13:4

    And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 18:20

      Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

    • Esther 8:5

      “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order…

    • 2 Samuel 3:36

      All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.

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.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 30 →

This page draws on 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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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