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Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.

KJV

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 30

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Pseudo-Tertullian

FIVE BOOKS IN REPLY TO MARCION 3.176-183

As corrector of an inert People That emulator [of David] Hezekiah arose; He restored the Law to a sinful, forgetful people All God's mandates of old, he first Commanded the people to observe, Who ended war by his prayers, Not by steel's point: he, dying, …

This site's exposition

wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh

on 2 Chronicles 30:1-3

Hezekiah's proclamation reaches past Judah into the fallen north, calling Ephraim and Manasseh to the house of the Lord though the calves at Dan and Bethel had governed worship there for two centuries. He takes counsel with his princes and the whole congregation before setting a date, and the date itself breaks the ordinary calendar: the priests are not yet sanctified and the people are not yet gathered, so the passover falls to the second month, the very provision Num 9:9-11 wrote for one man defiled or traveling far off, now applied to a nation still finding its way back.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Let them take whom they will for their king," says Hezekiah, "so they will but take him for their God." The matters in difference between Judah and Israel, either upon a civil or sacred account, shall not hinder but that if the people of Israel will sincerely return to the Lord their God Hezekiah will bid them as welcome to the passover as any of his own subjects.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on 2 Chronicles 30:1-5

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).

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

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.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֨חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • יְחִזְקִיָּ֜הוּHezekiah

    yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֣לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וִֽיהוּדָ֗הand Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • וְגַֽם־and also

    vegam-H1571 →769 times

  • אִגְּרוֹת֙letters

    ʾigerotH107 →

  • כָּתַב֙he wrote

    katavH3789 →224 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אֶפְרַ֣יִםEphraim

    ʾefrayimH669 →180 times

  • וּמְנַשֶּׁ֔הand Manasseh

    umenashehH4519 →146 times

  • לָב֥וֹאto come

    lavo'H935 →2568 times

  • לְבֵית־to [the] house of

    leveit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • לַעֲשׂ֣וֹתto observe

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • פֶּ֔סַחa passover

    pesachH6453 →49 times

  • לַיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֥י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

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

Related verses

13 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 Corinthians 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.3 works2 Chronicles 11:13Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.2 worksHosea 7:8–9Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.2 worksHosea 5:4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.2 works2 Chronicles 30:10–11And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.2 works2 Chronicles 35:6Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your fellow countrymen to carry out the word of the LORD given by Moses.”2 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hosea 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!2 worksDeuteronomy 16:2–6You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.2 works2 Chronicles 11:16Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.2 works2 Chronicles 25:7But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.2 worksExodus 12:3–20Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.2 works1 Kings 8:1At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.2 works2 Chronicles 34:6Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.2 works

The walk

5 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

    Hosea 5:4

    Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 4:12

      My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

    • 1 John 2:3–4

      By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

    • Hosea 4:1

      Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God…

    • Jeremiah 9:24

      But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…

    • 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12

      For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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Who and where

5 names in this verse with a page on the site.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Pseudo-Tertullian, FIVE BOOKS IN REPLY TO MARCION 3.176-183.

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