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2 Chronicles 29:31

in 2 Chronicles 29

Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto Jehovah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Jehovah. And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt-offerings.

KJV

Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 29

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Hezekiah addresses, not the priests, but the congregation: “Now that by the atoning sacrifice which has been offered for you, you are consecrated once more to be a holy people to the Lord, approach with confidence and offer your free-will offerings as of old.” Burnt offerings - The term thus translated is applied especially to those victims which were to be wholly consumed upon the altar.

This site's exposition

Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord

on 2 Chronicles 29:31-33

Hezekiah's invitation, come near and bring sacrifices, moves the day from atonement to fellowship, and the response is voluntary: as many as were of a free heart brought burnt offerings, the same free heart language that describes the giving for the temple's building at 1 Chr 29:9. Gill notes the totals, seventy bullocks and six hundred oxen among them, run smaller than David and Solomon's dedication offerings, the nation poorer after Ahaz's reign and the gift coming from two tribes rather than the whole kingdom David once ruled. The size of the offering matters less to the chapter than its shape, obligation in the morning and free giving by the afternoon.

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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Then Hezekiah answered and said,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

"Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord --have both made an atonement and made a covenant by sacrifice, are solemnly reconciled and engaged to him--now come near, and bring sacrifices. " Note, Our covenant with God must be pursued and improved in communion with him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hezekiah . . . said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near--This address was made to the priests as being now, by the sacrifice of the expiation offerings, anew consecrated to the service of God and qualified to resume the functions of their sacred office (Ex 28:41; 29:32). the congregation brought in--that is, the body of civic rulers present.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַיַּ֨עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030331 times

  • יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּHezekiah

    yechizkiyahuH2396127 times

  • וַיֹּ֗אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • עַתָּ֨הnow

    ʾatahH6258433 times

  • מִלֵּאתֶ֤םyou have filled

    miletemH4390249 times

  • יֶדְכֶם֙hand your

    yedkhemH30271618 times

  • לַיהוָ֔הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • גֹּ֧שׁוּdraw near

    goshuH5066125 times

  • וְהָבִ֛יאוּand bring

    vehaviuH9352568 times

  • זְבָחִ֥יםsacrifices

    zevachimH2077162 times

  • וְתוֹד֖וֹתand thank-offerings

    vetodotH842631 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH10042046 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • וַיָּבִ֤יאוּand they brought

    vaiyaviuH9352568 times

  • הַקָּהָל֙the assembly

    hakahalH6951123 times

  • זְבָחִ֣יםsacrifices

    zevachimH2077162 times

  • וְתוֹד֔וֹתand thank-offerings

    vetodotH842631 times

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH36055413 times

  • נְדִ֥יב[person] willing of

    nedivH5081

  • לֵ֖בheart

    levH3820595 times

  • עֹלֽוֹת׃burnt offerings

    olotH5930287 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

    Exodus 35:5

    Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 9:7

      Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

    • Psalms 110:3

      Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

    • Exodus 25:2–7

      “Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.

    • Judges 5:9

      My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

    • 2 Corinthians 8:11–12

      Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 13:9

    But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 11:14–15

      For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 2:11

      Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

  • Through

    Exodus 35:22

    So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave…

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:68–69

      When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.