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2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

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ASV

For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

KJV

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.

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Hebraic traditional view

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.

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

Original language & word study

24 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
בְשׁוּבְכֶ֞םve.shu.ve.Khemwhen return youH7725 →
עַל־'al-toH5921 →
יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֲחֵיכֶ֨ם'a.chei.Khemrelatives yourH251 →
וּבְנֵיכֶ֤םu.ve.nei.Khemand children yourH1121 →
לְרַחֲמִים֙le.ra.cha.Mimto compassion<s>H7356 →
לִפְנֵ֣יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440 →
שֽׁוֹבֵיהֶ֔םshoei.Hemcaptors theirH7617 →
וְלָשׁ֖וּבve.la.Shuvand to returnH7725 →
לָאָ֣רֶץla.'A.retzto the landH776 →
הַזֹּ֑אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
חַנּ֤וּןcha.Nun[is] graciousH2587 →
וְרַחוּם֙ve.ra.Chumand compassionateH7349 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430 →
וְלֹא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
יָסִ֤ירya.Sirhe will turn asideH5493 →
פָּנִים֙pa.NimfaceH6440 →
מִכֶּ֔םmi.Kemfrom you
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
תָּשׁ֖וּבוּta.Shu.vuyou will turn backH7725 →
אֵלָֽיו׃ פ'e.Lavto himH413 →

The walk

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Exodus 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.Psalms 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.Deuteronomy 4:31For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.Psalms 106:46He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.James 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.Deuteronomy 30:2–4and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.Exodus 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,1 Kings 8:50May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.Leviticus 26:40–42But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—Exodus 22:27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.Jeremiah 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”Ezekiel 18:30–32Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.

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