2 Chronicles 30:7
in 2 Chronicles 30Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
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ASV
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
KJV
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.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 30
Commentary
2 notes on this verseAnd be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers,.... By worshipping the calves, and neglecting the service of God in the temple at Jerusalem; the Targum is,"which acted deceitfully with the Word of the Lord their God:" who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see; some part of the land of Israel being already made desolate by the kings of Assyria, which was very visible.
This site's exposition
Do not be like your fathers
on 2 Chronicles 30:7-9
The letter argues from history: “Do not be like your fathers and brothers”, whose unfaithfulness made them “an object of horror, as you can see”. The call turns on the verb “return”, and it promises mercy before their captors, for “the LORD your God is gracious and merciful”.
How the passage was read
On 2 Chronicles 30:1-27On 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
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַל־ | veal- | and may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תִּֽהְי֗וּ | tihyu | you be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כַּאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ | kaavoteikhem | like fathers your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וְכַ֣אֲחֵיכֶ֔ם | vekhaacheikhem | and like brothers your | H251 → | 630 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| מָעֲל֔וּ | maalu | they acted unfaithfully | H4603 → | 36 times |
| בַּיהוָ֖ה | bayahweh | against Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֣י | ʾelohei | [the] God of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם | ʾavoteihem | ancestors their | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וַיִּתְּנֵ֣ם | vaiyitenem | and he made them | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לְשַׁמָּ֔ה | leshamah | into a horror | H8047 → | |
| כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר | kaasher | just as | H834 → | 5497 times |
| אַתֶּ֥ם | ʾatem | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| רֹאִֽים׃ | roim | [are] seeing | H7200 → | 1300 times |
וְאַל־and may not
veal-H408 →724 times
תִּֽהְי֗וּyou be
tihyuH1961 →3559 times
כַּאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙like fathers your
kaavoteikhemH1 →1212 times
וְכַ֣אֲחֵיכֶ֔םand like brothers your
vekhaacheikhemH251 →630 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwho
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
מָעֲל֔וּthey acted unfaithfully
maaluH4603 →36 times
בַּיהוָ֖הagainst Yahweh
bayahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵ֣י[the] God of
ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times
אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑םancestors their
ʾavoteihemH1 →1212 times
וַיִּתְּנֵ֣םand he made them
vaiyitenemH5414 →2011 times
לְשַׁמָּ֔הinto a horror
leshamahH8047 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖רjust as
kaasherH834 →5497 times
אַתֶּ֥םyou
ʾatemH859 →1094 times
רֹאִֽים׃[are] seeing
roimH7200 →1300 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach 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
2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 25:18
to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
- Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among…
- 2 Chronicles 24:18
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- Jeremiah 25:18
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.