2 Chronicles 30:10
in 2 Chronicles 30And 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
KJV
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 30
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThey - The generality of the ten tribes; who by long want of meat had now lost their appetite to God's ordinances, for which they paid dear. For about six years after their refusal of this offer of grace they were all carried away captive, 2 Kings xviii, 1, 10.
This site's exposition
laughed them to scorn, and mocked them
on 2 Chronicles 30:10-11
Most of the letter's road ends in ridicule: the posts pass from Ephraim through Manasseh into Zebulun and are laughed to scorn and mocked, the same reception the Chronicler elsewhere gives the Lord's own prophets sent to a hardened people. But verse 11 turns on one word, nevertheless: divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem, a remnant within the remnant answering where whole tribes refused. Albert Barnes counts what is left to answer at all, Reuben and Gad already carried off, Dan absorbed into Judah, so the response comes from as many of the ten tribes as still had a homeland to send it from.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Tell them of God's mercy and wrath! they neither dreaded the one nor desired the other. No marvel that the king's messengers were thus despitefully used by this apostate race when God's messengers were so, his servants the prophets, who produced credentials from him. The destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was now at hand.
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
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּֽהְי֨וּ | vaiyihyu | and they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| הָרָצִ֜ים | haratzim | the runners | H7323 → | 103 times |
| עֹבְרִ֨ים | ʾoerim | passing | H5674 → | 556 times |
| מֵעִ֧יר׀ | meir | from city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| לָעִ֛יר | lair | to [the] city | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| בְּאֶֽרֶץ־ | beeretz- | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֶפְרַ֥יִם | ʾefrayim | Ephraim | H669 → | 180 times |
| וּמְנַשֶּׁ֖ה | umenasheh | and Manasseh | H4519 → | 146 times |
| וְעַד־ | vead- | and to | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| זְבֻל֑וּן | zevulun | Zebulun | H2074 → | 45 times |
| וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ | vaiyihyu | and people were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| מַשְׂחִיקִ֣ים | maschikim | laughing | H7832 → | |
| עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם | ʾaleihem | on them | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| וּמַלְעִגִ֖ים | umaligim | and mocking | H3932 → | |
| בָּֽם׃ | bam | <in> <the> them |
וַיִּֽהְי֨וּand they were
vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times
הָרָצִ֜יםthe runners
haratzimH7323 →103 times
עֹבְרִ֨יםpassing
ʾoerimH5674 →556 times
מֵעִ֧יר׀from city
meirH5892 →1090 times
לָעִ֛ירto [the] city
lairH5892 →1090 times
בְּאֶֽרֶץ־in [the] land of
beeretz-H776 →2504 times
אֶפְרַ֥יִםEphraim
ʾefrayimH669 →180 times
וּמְנַשֶּׁ֖הand Manasseh
umenashehH4519 →146 times
וְעַד־and to
vead-H5704 →1261 times
זְבֻל֑וּןZebulun
zevulunH2074 →45 times
וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙and people were
vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times
מַשְׂחִיקִ֣יםlaughing
maschikimH7832 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֔םon them
ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times
וּמַלְעִגִ֖יםand mocking
umaligimH3932 →
בָּֽם׃<in> <the> them
bam
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
Luke 23:35The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”
it leads to
- Psalms 22:17
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
- Isaiah 42:1
“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
- 1 Peter 2:4
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- Matthew 12:18
“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
- Psalms 22:17
Through
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 5:12–13
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- Luke 22:63–64
The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
- Jeremiah 5:12–13
Through
2 Chronicles 30:6So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 51:31
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
- Jeremiah 51:31
Through
Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
it leads to
- Job 30:1
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- Job 30:1
About 2 Chronicles
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.