Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Chronicles 30:18
Otherwise than it was written: they had so eager a desire to partake of this ordinance, that, rather than neglect it, they would venture upon it with some ceremonial uncleanness upon them.
Otherwise than it was written: they had so eager a desire to partake of this ordinance, that, rather than neglect it, they would venture upon it with some ceremonial uncleanness upon them.
Verse 2 Chronicles 30:18. _A MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE - HAD NOT CLEANSED THEMSELVES_] As there were men from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, they were excusable, because they came from countr...
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;...
OTHERWISE. Hezekiah considered this to be the lesser of two evils....
_every one_that _prepareth his heart_ Render, EVEN HIM THAT SETTETH HIS WHOLE HEART (cp. R.V. mg.). This clause defines the preceding phrase ("The good"); see last note....
_of Ephraim_etc.] The list of tribes given here does not agree with the list in 2 Chronicles 30:11, but in both cases it is probable that the Chronicler merely wishes by his list to designate _men of...
DISCOURSE: 425 GOD’S CONDESCENSION TO THE UPRIGHT 2 Chronicles 30:18. _Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one that prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathe...
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...
_FOR THERE WERE MANY IN THE CONGREGATION THAT WERE NOT SANCTIFIED: THEREFORE THE LEVITES HAD THE CHARGE OF THE KILLING OF THE PASSOVERS FOR EVERY ONE THAT WAS NOT CLEAN, TO SANCTIFY THEM UNTO THE LORD...
30:18 forgive (c-39) Or 'make atonement for.' see Deuteronomy 21:8 ; Deuteronomy 32:43 ....
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter relates how a passover was kept on the second month for Israel and Judah....
OTHERWISE THAN IT WAS.WRITTEN] As this Passover in the second month took the place of the one ordinarily held in the first month, there could be no supplementary passover for such as were unclean; so...
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
A MULTITUDE. — _Marbîth_ (2chron 96; 1 Chronicles 12:29). Only in the Chronicles in this sense. Else where the term means “increase” of children (1 Samuel 2:33), or of money, _i.e.,_ interest (τόκον_,...
כִּ֣י מַרְבִּ֣ית הָ עָ֡ם רַ֠בַּת מֵֽ אֶפְרַ֨י
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
WHOLE-HEARTED SEEKING OF GOD 2 Chronicles 30:13 As necessary preliminary to the right observance of the approaching feast, the removal of the altars erected by Ahaz was resolved upon. The feast and i...
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 a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah praye...
Ephraim and....Issachar had not been mentioned before, v. 18. H. --- Some indulgence was shewn to the tribes of Israel, which had been so long rebellious, for fear lest they should return no more; and...
There are several most interesting things observable upon this occasion. The people first put away all the idolatrous altars before they proceeded to their pure worship. The old leaven of malice and w...
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 A MULTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE, EVEN MANY OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH, ISSACHAR AND ZEBULUN,.... All which were of the ten tribes, where idolatry had prevailed for a long time: HAD NOT CLEANSED THEMSELVES...
For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah praye...
_A multitude of the people had not cleansed themselves_ Either they did not know, after such a long night of ignorance and superstition, what ceremonies were required, in order to their purification,...
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...
THE JOYFUL CELEBRATION...
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, not gone through the rite of purification as demanded before this festival, YET D...
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...
13-20 The great thing needful in attendance upon God in solemn ordinances, is, that we make heart-work of it; all is nothing without this. Where this sincerity and fixedness of heart are, there may y...
2 Chronicles 30:18 multitude H4768 people H5971 many H7227 Ephraim H669 Manasseh H4519 Issachar H3485 Zebulun H2074 not...
2 Chronicles 30:18 For Jewish festivals think of Christian ordinances, and apply the principle of the text to their observance. Take the two great ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism...
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...
_For them were many in the congregation that were not sanctified._ UNFITNESS FOR THE COMMUNION I. There are seasons when we feel unfit for the sacred ordinance of the Lord’s house. Let us think of t...
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 30:18 The people from the northern tribes who came to the Passover were ceremonially unclean and thus, according to the law, they were unable to eat the meal. However...
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 Corinthians 11:28; 1 John 5:16; 2 Chronicles 30:11; 2 Chronicles 6:21;...