The Lord hearkened to Hezekiah Was greatly pleased with his pious concern for the congregation; and, in answer to his prayer, healed the people That is, pardoned this their sin, and accepted them and their services, as if they had been clean.
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;...
HEALED. And did not visit according to Leviticus 15:31....
_healed the people_ By _prevention_; no plague was allowed to break out among them, although uncleanness in the sanctuary had been threatened with death; Leviticus 15:31....
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...
_AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO HEZEKIAH, AND HEALED THE PEOPLE._ The Lord ... healed the people. We imagine the whole affair to have been the following: in consequence of their transgressions they had ca...
HEALED] i.e. did not send upon them, the punishment which they had incurred: cp. Leviticus 15:31....
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter relates how a passover was kept on the second month for Israel and Judah....
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
AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO HEZEKIAH.-Comp. Genesis 20:17, “And Abraham prayed unto God; _and God healed Abimelech and his wife,”_ &c. In the present instance the prayer of Hezekiah is thought of as ave...
וַ יִּשְׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ אֶל ־יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ וַ...
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...
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and (o) healed the people. (o) That is, accepted them as purified....
_Merciful; literally, "appeased." Heb. and Sept. "healed." S. Jerom (Trad.) says, "It was asserted that no unclean person could taste the Phase, but death presently ensued; and they understood that th...
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...
AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO HEZEKIAH,.... Heard his prayer, and accepted of it, and granted what he desired: AND HEALED HIS PEOPLE; that is, forgave their sins, as Kimchi interprets it; forgiveness bei...
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. Ver. 20. _And healed the people._] He healed them on both sides: "he forgave all their iniquities, and healed all their diseases." Psa 103:3...
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...
And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people. It was either that in consequence of their transgression they had reason to fear disease and even death, Leviticus 15:31, or that some of them...
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...
From their uncleanness; which itself was a spiritual disease, and which probably produced a disease, or distemper, or trouble in their minds and consciences; which also had formerly brought, and might...
2 Chronicles 30:20 LORD H3068 listened H8085 (H8799) Hezekiah H3169 healed H7495 (H8799) people H5971 healed -...
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...
Exodus 15:26; James 5:15; James 5:16; Psalms 103:3...
Healed — That is, pardoned this their sin, and accepting them and their services, as if they had been clean....