They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
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They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
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And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
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And they swore unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 15:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
- Nehemiah 10:29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
- Psalms 81:1-4 Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with…
2Ch 15:14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
Ver. 14. And they sware unto the Lord.] For better assurance. An oath is a curb to conscience; ορκος just as ερκος.
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With a loud voice.] Verbis non tantum desertis, sed et exertis, audibly and boldly.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they sware unto the Lord with a loud…
And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice,.... As not being ashamed of the oath they took, and that there might be witnesses of it, and that it might be clear they did not equivocate in but expressed themselves in plain words:
and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets; showing that the oath was not extorted from them unwillingly, but that they took it with the utmost cheerfulness, and with all the demonstrations of joy and gladness imaginable.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. shouting] The word (terû’âh) is used to denote…
14. shouting] The word (terû’âh) is used to denote a blast with the festal trumpets; see next note.
trumpets] The word (ḥãçôçrâh) means a special kind of trumpet used only for religions purposes; Num_10:1-10; 1Ch_15:24 (note). Driver, Amos, pp. 144–6, gives an illustration derived from the Arch of Titus.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) With shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.—See…
(14) With shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.—See or 1Ch_15:28; 2Ch_23:13. The acclamations of the people, accompanied by the loud blasts upon trumpet and clarion, naturally enhanced the solemnity of the oath.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The loud voice, the shouting, and the trumpets, and…
The loud voice, the shouting, and the trumpets, and cornets, spoke alike the determination, and the united joyful determination of the people (2Ch_23:13; Neh_12:27, Neh_12:42, Neh_12:43)
Vers. 14, 15.
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The secret of joy in the service of Christ.
How comes it to pass that the service of Christ should be associated in any mind with austerity and gloom? How is it that every one does not connect that service in his thought with gladness of heart and brightness of life? This misfortune may be attributable to misconception, to a mental error, to the misreading of some words of the Master or of his apostles; or it may be the consequence, physical as much as spiritual, of a particular temperament; but it is most frequently caused by lack of thoroughness in the service of the Lord.
I THE MISTAKE OF HALF-HEARTEDNESS IN THE SERVICE OF CHRIST. During the reigns of Rehoboam and Abijah, when king and people both showed much abatement of zeal in the worship of Jehovah, we do not read of any record like that of the text. Of Rehoboam we find that "he fixed not his heart to seek the Lord". (2Ch_12:14, marginal reading) Abijah could say nothing more for himself than that he had "not forsaken the Lord", (2Ch_13:10) and his later days, like his grandfather"s, were apparently darkened by indulgence. There was no fervour of piety, and there was no fulness of joy in the land. And we find that everywhere and always it is so. Half-heartedness in holy service is a profound mistake. It gives no satisfaction to our Lord himself. It leads to no height of Christian worth, to no marked excellency of character. It fills the soul with no deep and lasting joy. It is very likely to decline and to expire, to go out into the darkness of doubt, or worldliness, or guilt.
II THE WISDOM OF WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS. "All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire and the Lord gave them rest." There was no imaginable step they could have taken which would have caused so much elation of heart and ensured so enviable a national position. Ass and his people showed the very truest wisdom, something more and better than sagacious policy or statecraft, when they sought the Lord with all their heart. They did that which gave them a pure and honest satisfaction in the present, and which, more than any other act, secured the future. And though we certainly are not invited to manifest the thoroughness of our devotion in the same severities that characterized their decision (ver. 13), we do well when we follow there in the fulness of their resolve. For to seek Christ the Lord with all our heart and our "whole desire" is the one right and the one wise thing to do.
1. It secures to us the abiding favour and friendship of the Eternal; he isthen "found" of us.
2. It brings profound personal rest; then Christ speaks "peace" to us his peace, such as this world has not at its command.
3. It secures a feeling of friendship toward all around us: "rest roundabout." The heart is filled with that holy love which desires to bless all who can be reached.
4. It fills and sometimes floods the heart with sacred joy. The fullrealization of the presence and love of Christ, the fervent worship of the Lord of all grace and truth, earnest work done in his Name and in his strength, these are a source of enlarging and ennobling joy. The true key-note of the Christian life is this: "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again rejoice. C.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 All Judah rejoiced
All Judah rejoiced
Here the word "all" is a generalization. The phrase means that people from all over Judah rejoiced. AT: "People all over Judah rejoiced" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)
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with all their heart
The idiom "with all their heart" means "with complete devotion." AT: "with complete devotion" or "wholeheartedly" (See: Idiom)
he was found by them
This can be stated in active form. See how you translated this in 2 Chronicles 15:4. AT: "they found him" or "he permitted them to find him" (See: Active or Passive)
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