Commentary Critical and Explanatory
2 Chronicles 30:2-4
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
No JFB commentary on these verses.
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
No JFB commentary on these verses.
Verse 2 Chronicles 30:2. _IN THE SECOND MONTH._] In _Ijar_, as they could not celebrate it in _Nisan_, the _fourteenth_ of which month was the proper time. But as they could not complete the purgatio...
IN THE SECOND MONTH - Hezekiah and his counselors considered that the permission of the Law (see the marginal reference) might, under the circumstances, be extended to the whole people. It had been fo...
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 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13;...
CONGREGATION. assembly. See note on Genesis 28:3. THE SECOND MONTH. As provided by the law (Numbers 9:6)....
_in the second month_ The Law allowed such a postponement; cp. Numbers 9:10-11....
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...
FOR THE KING HAD TAKEN COUNSEL, &C.— The direction which the law gives is, that the passover should be celebrated _on the fourteenth day of the first month:_ but, as it was found impossible to get all...
14. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (29-32) TEXT 2 Chronicles 29:1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was A...
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter relates how a passover was kept on the second month for Israel and Judah....
IN THE SECOND MONTH] The Law allowed individuals to keep the Passover in the second month instead of the first, if they were prevented by some temporary hindrance (Numbers 9:10), and this permission H...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 30 HEZEKIAH’S *PASSOVER *FEAST – 2 CHRONICLES 30:1-27 v1
FOR THE KING HAD TAKEN COUNSEL. — _And the king determined_ (2 Chronicles 25:17). The resolution was taken by the king in council with his grandees and the popular representatives; apparently before t...
וַ יִּוָּעַ֨ץ הַ מֶּ֧לֶךְ וְ שָׂרָ֛יו וְ
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
A SUMMONS TO THE NATION 2 Chronicles 30:1 Though one of the most important feasts, the Passover had long been neglected. When a spiritual revival takes place, men naturally begin to observe the old s...
For a long time the proper feasts of the Lord had not been observed. Hezekiah made arrangements to keep the Passover. It is very beautiful to see how his heart took in the whole nation. In all probabi...
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the (b) second month. (b) Though they should have done it in the first month, as in (Exo...
Month. The Rabbins pretend that the king intercalated the second Adar, contrary to the rule and advice of the wise, and the that he ought to have allowed those who were pure to celebrate the feast in...
It should seem that in consequence of the general defection of the people from the worship of the Lord, the holy service of the passover had not been punctually observed. And at the time when Hezekiah...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 THROUGH 31. Jotham, the son of Uzziah, walks uprightly; and he avoids his father's fault; but the people are still corrupt. Nevertheless the faithfulness...
FOR THE KING HAD TAKEN COUNSEL, AND HIS PRINCES, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION IN JERUSALEM,.... He and his nobles, and the great sanhedrim or senate of the nation, had consulted together: TO KEEP THE PAS...
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. Ver. 2. _To keep the passover in the second month._] He knew that _nu...
_The king had taken counsel_, &c. The law directed that the passover should be celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first mouth: but as it was found impossible to get all things in readiness agains...
1 Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemne Passeouer on the second moneth, for Iudah and Israel. 13 The assembly hauing destroyed the altars of idolatry, keepe the feast fourteene dayes. 27 The Priests and Le...
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, upon the occasion of the rededication of the Temple, TO KEEP THE PASSOVER IN THE SECOND MONTH, as the Lord had p...
THE FESTIVAL PROCLAIMED BY THE KING...
KEEPING THE PASSOVER (vv.1-27) The concern of Hezekiah to honour the Lord was then extended to his purpose that the Passover should be kept and that all Israel should be invited to this feast. There...
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 per...
Which was against the common rule and practice, but was justified by that supreme law of necessity, and by a just impediment, which made the doing of this in its proper time, to wit, the fourteenth da...
2 Chronicles 30:2 king H4428 leaders H8269 assembly H6951 Jerusalem H3389 agreed H3289 (H8735) keep H6213 (H88
SECOND MONTH That is, May; (2 Chronicles 30:13); (2 Chronicles 30:15)....
CONTENTS: Preparations for the passover and its observance. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: In every true reformation, the doctrine of the atonement must be emphasized. God's grace will meet...
2 Chronicles 30:2. _To keep the passover in the second month,_ one month later because the apostate priests were as yet unclean. See the calendar in Exodus 12. To defer the passover eleven months woul...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 30:1 Hezekiah demonstrates his commitment to the Law of Moses by holding the Passover celebration immediately after the reconsecration of the temple. The ceremony dif...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 30:2 The PASSOVER was delayed until the SECOND MONTH. The law allowed this kind of delay for those who were ceremonially unclean or absent on a journey ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Preparations for Passover (2 Chronicles 30:1); the keeping of Passover (2 Chronicles 30:13); H.’S prayer for unclean persons (2 Chronicles 30:18); the solemnities of the second sev
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,...
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and to Judah, they wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, [this is up in the northern] that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the pas...
1 Chronicles 13:1; Ecclesiastes 4:13; Numbers 9:10; Numbers 9:11;...
Second month — Which was against the common rule, but the doing of this in its proper time, namely, the fourteenth day of the first month was impossible, because the temple was not cleansed, nor they...