2 Chronicles 24:19
in 2 Chronicles 24Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.
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ASV
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
KJV
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 24
Commentary
5 notes on this verseSome such thing we read of in the book of Chronicles. For Joash the king of Judah at the age of seven was summoned by Jehoiada the priest to the kingdom and by the witness of Scripture is commended for all his actions as long as the aforesaid priest lived. But hear what Scripture relates of him after Jehoiada's death and how he was puffed up with pride and given over to a most disgraceful state.
This site's exposition
came the princes of Judah
on 2 Chronicles 24:17-19
After Jehoiada dies the princes of Judah come and make obeisance to the king, and Joash hearkens unto them, a scene 2 Kings 12 does not carry at all: Chronicles alone records the fall. Judah leaves the house of the Lord for groves and idols, and wrath comes on Judah and Jerusalem for the trespass. The Lord sends prophets to bring them again, and they testify against the people, but the people will not give ear, the same refusal the book names across every reign it measures by seeking and forsaking.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
In the most degenerate times God left not himself without witness; though they had dealt very disingenuously with God, yet he sent prophets to them to convince and instruct them, and to assure them that they should find favour with him if yet they would return; for he would rather sinners should turn and live than go on and die, and those that perish shall be left inexcusable.
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
With strong professions of allegiance they humbly requested that they might not be subjected to the continued necessity of frequent and expensive journeys to Jerusalem, but allowed the privilege their fathers had enjoyed of worshipping God in high places at home.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח | vaiyishlach | and he sent | H7971 → | 845 times |
| בָּהֶם֙ | bahem | among them | ||
| נְבִאִ֔ים | neviim | prophets | H5030 → | 314 times |
| לַהֲשִׁיבָ֖ם | lahashivam | to bring back them | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וַיָּעִ֥ידוּ | vaiyaidu | and they warned | H5749 → | |
| בָ֖ם | vam | <in> them | ||
| וְלֹ֥א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| הֶאֱזִֽינוּ׃ ס | heezinu | they gave ear | H238 → |
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤חand he sent
vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times
בָּהֶם֙among them
bahem
נְבִאִ֔יםprophets
neviimH5030 →314 times
לַהֲשִׁיבָ֖םto bring back them
lahashivamH7725 →1056 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וַיָּעִ֥ידוּand they warned
vaiyaiduH5749 →
בָ֖ם<in> them
vam
וְלֹ֥אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
הֶאֱזִֽינוּ׃ סthey gave ear
heezinuH238 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away…
- Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Proverbs 4:20
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
- John 10:27
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
- Acts 13:34
In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
- Jeremiah 32:40
Through
Jeremiah 26:5and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
it leads to
- Jeremiah 11:7
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
- 2 Kings 9:7
And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD…
- Jeremiah 25:3–4
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again,…
- Jeremiah 11:7
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Cassian, INSTITUTES 12.21; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.