2 Chronicles 30:9

_AND BE NOT YE LIKE YOUR FATHERS, AND LIKE YOUR BRETHREN, WHICH TRESPASSED AGAINST THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, WHO THEREFORE GAVE THEM UP TO DESOLATION, AS YE SEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-12 Hezekiah made Israel as welcome to the passover, as any of his own subjects. Let us yield ourselves unto the Lord. Say not, you will do what you please, but resolve to do what he pleases. We perceive in the carnal mind a stiffness, an obstinacy, an unaptness to compel with God; we have it from our fathers: this must be overcome. Those who, through grace, have turned to God themselves, should do all they can to bring others to him. Numbers will be scorners, but some will be humbled and benefited; perhaps where least expected. The rich mercy of God is the great argument by which to enforce repentance; the vilest who submit and yield themselves to the Lord, seek his grace, and give themselves to his service, shall certainly be saved. Oh that messengers were sent forth to carry these glad tidings to every city and every village, through every land!...

Verse 2 Chronicles 30:9. _AND WILL NOT TURN AWAY_ HIS _FACE FROM YOU_] Well expressed by the _Targum_: "For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not cause his majesty to ascend up from among you, if ye will return to his fear." The _shechinah_, of which the Targumist speaks, is the _dwelling_ of the Divine Presence among men, and the _visible symbol_ of that presence....

EXPOSITION This chapter contains the account of Hezekiah's arrangements after the restoration for the observance of the Passover—arrangements more than ordinarily interesting to notice in respect of, _first, _the unusual time appointed for the celebration; and, _second, _the determined and brave attempt of the good king to win again to the worship of Jerusalem (though, as was no doubt anticipated, it subjected his royal proffers to scorn, 2 Chronicles 30:10) the separated people of "all Israel" (2 Chronicles 30:1); and further, the celebration itself, the happy omen (2 Chronicles 30:14) with which it opened, its duration; and certain several other incidents

FOR IF YE TURN AGAIN UNTO THE LORD,.... To the fear or worship of the Lord, as the Targum: YOUR BRETHREN AND YOUR CHILDREN SHALL FIND COMPASSION BEFORE THEM THAT LEAD THEM CAPTIVE, SO THAT THEY SHALL COME AGAIN INTO THIS LAND; who had been carried away by Tiglathpileser, see Psalms 106:46, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL; so he had proclaimed his name, as they must know, Exodus 34:6, AND WILL NOT TURN AWAY HIS FACE FROM YOU; in wrath and anger; or withdraw his Shecaniah from you, as the Targum; his gracious and glorious presence: IF YE RETURN UNTO HIM; his fear and worship, as the same paraphrase....

CHAPTER 30 THE PASSOVER _ 1. Preparations for the great Passover (2 Chronicles 30:1)_ 2. The celebration of the Passover (2 Chronicles 30:15) 3. The concluding festive days (2 Chronicles 30:23) The Passover is next celebrated. It was, so to speak, the birthday of the nation, and typified the great redemption by the blood of the true Passover-Lamb. It had not been kept for a long time and as the proper yearly time for its celebration had passed, the first month, they concluded to keep it in the second month. The law had made provision for that and therefore what they did was according to the Word. (See...

2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 20:1). The Chronicler in this long section writes, from his own point of view, much that is quite unhistorical. The three main subjects treated by him here are Hezekiah's reopening of the Temple, the Passover, and the appointment of the Temple officials. In...

LEAD THEM CAPTIVE. Though the ten tribes, as such, had not been deported, yet thousands had been led captive. Hezekiah's Song of the degrees (Psalms 126:1) refers to this. Compare 2 Chronicles 30:6, and see App-67. GRACIOUS, &C. Compare Exodus 34:6....

shall find _compassion_ Cp. Psalms 106:46 (a similar phrase in Heb.). _so that_they shall _come again_ R.V. AND SHALL COME AGAIN....

DISCOURSE: 424 HEZEKIAH’S ZEAL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD 2 Chronicles 30:1. 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. For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was