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2 Chronicles 30:6

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So 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 He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

KJV

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

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Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

So the posts went - רצים ratsim, the runners or couriers; persons who were usually employed to carry messages; men who were light of foot, and confidential.

This site's exposition

pleased the king and all the congregation

on 2 Chronicles 30:4-6

The decree that follows only makes formal what king, princes and congregation have already agreed among themselves. Its proclamation runs from Beersheba even to Dan, the boundary language of a united kingdom that has not stood on the ground for two centuries, spoken now to a scattered north as though the division of 1 Kings 12 had never fallen between them. Verse 5 states the reason without softening it: they had not kept the feast of a long time in such sort as it was written, an admission that reaches back further than one generation.

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

29 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.

  • וַיֵּלְכוּ֩and they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • הָרָצִ֨יםthe runners

    haratzimH7323 →103 times

  • בָּֽאִגְּר֜וֹתwith <the> letters

    baigerotH107 →

  • מִיַּ֧דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH3027 →1618 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וְשָׂרָ֗יוand officials his

    vesaravH8269 →421 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וִֽיהוּדָ֔הand Judah

    vihudahH3063 →819 times

  • וּכְמִצְוַ֥תand according to [the] command of

    ukhemitzvatH4687 →181 times

  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • בְּנֵ֣יO people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • שׁ֚וּבוּreturn

    shuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵי֙[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • אַבְרָהָם֙Abraham

    ʾavrahamH85 →

  • יִצְחָ֣קIsaac

    yitzchakH3327 →

  • וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לand Israel

    veyisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְיָשֹׁב֙so he may return

    veyashoH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַפְּלֵיטָ֔הthe escaped remnant

    hapeleitahH6413 →28 times

  • הַנִּשְׁאֶ֣רֶתwhich remains

    hanisheretH7604 →133 times

  • לָכֶ֔םto you

    lakhem

  • מִכַּ֖ףfrom [the] hand of

    mikafH3709 →192 times

  • מַלְכֵ֥י[the] kings of

    malkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • אַשּֽׁוּר׃Assyria

    ʾashurH804 →151 times

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

Related verses

18 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.

Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.8 worksJeremiah 51:31One 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.5 works2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.4 works2 Kings 15:19Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.4 worksJeremiah 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,4 worksEsther 8:14The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Esther 3:13And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.4 worksIsaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.3 works2 Chronicles 28:20Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.3 works1 Chronicles 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.3 worksJob 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.3 works2 Chronicles 30:10And 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.3 worksJoel 2:12–14“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”2 worksHosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.2 worksIsaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.2 worksJames 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.2 worksEzekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’2 worksLamentations 5:21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,2 works

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

    Jeremiah 4:1

    “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

    it leads to

    • Joel 2:12

      “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

    • Jeremiah 3:22

      “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

    • Jeremiah 3:12

      Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be…

    • Ezekiel 43:9

      Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

    • Jeremiah 3:1

      “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with…

  • Through

    2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people…

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 5:26

      So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…

    • 2 Kings 17:6

      In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 18:19–31

      Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”

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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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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