2 Chronicles 30:11
in 2 Chronicles 30Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
KJV
Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 30
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Compare 2Ch 30:18. Hence, five of the ten tribes certainly sent representatives. Two - Reuben and Gad - were in captivity. One - Dan - was absorbed into Judah. Simeon and Naphtali, which alone remained, seem to have been more than ordinarily idolatrous 2Ch 34:6.
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 Awakening2 voices
In the worst of times God has had a remnant; so he had here, many of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun (here is no mention of any out of Ephraim, though some of that tribe are mentioned,
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Nevertheless, divers of Asher, and Manasseh, and of Zebulun, humbled themselves,.... Confessed their idolatries and impieties, and expressed sorrow and repentance for them, and were willing to obey the commands of God, and attend his worship and ordinances: and came to Jerusalem; to keep the passover.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Accordingly, among the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Zebulun, Hezekiah's messengers met with open insults and ill usage. Many, however, in these very districts, as well as throughout the kingdom of the ten tribes, generally complied with the invitation; while, in the kingdom of Judah, there was one unanimous feeling of high expectation and pious delight.
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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַךְ־ | ʾakh- | nevertheless | H389 → | |
| אֲנָשִׁ֛ים | ʾanashim | men | H582 → | 566 times |
| מֵאָשֵׁ֥ר | measher | from Asher | H836 → | |
| וּמְנַשֶּׁ֖ה | umenasheh | and Manasseh | H4519 → | 146 times |
| וּמִזְּבֻל֑וּן | umizevulun | and from Zebulun | H2074 → | 45 times |
| נִֽכְנְע֔וּ | nikhneu | they humbled themselves | H3665 → | 36 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ | vaiyavou | and they came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ | lirushalim | to Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
אַךְ־nevertheless
ʾakh-H389 →
אֲנָשִׁ֛יםmen
ʾanashimH582 →566 times
מֵאָשֵׁ֥רfrom Asher
measherH836 →
וּמְנַשֶּׁ֖הand Manasseh
umenashehH4519 →146 times
וּמִזְּבֻל֑וּןand from Zebulun
umizevulunH2074 →45 times
נִֽכְנְע֔וּthey humbled themselves
nikhneuH3665 →36 times
וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came
vaiyavouH935 →2568 times
לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃to Jerusalem
lirushalimH3389 →643 times
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
2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 32:26
Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
- Psalms 34:18
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Ezekiel 9:4
“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:26
Through
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people…
it leads to
- 1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
- 1 Kings 21:29
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house…
- James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- 1 Peter 5:6
Through
2 Chronicles 30:21The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments…
it leads to
- Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be…
- Exodus 12:15
Through
2 Chronicles 30:18A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD,…
it leads to
- James 5:15–16
And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
- James 5:15–16
About 2 Chronicles
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonLate monarchyManassehJudah's longest-reigning and worst king, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; the book names his apostasy as the cause of 586…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.