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2 Chronicles 29:7

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

  • KJV King James Version

    Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

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Cross-references (5)

Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 29:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, and cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
  • Leviticus 24:2-8 “Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually. “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.
  • 2 Kings 16:17-18 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone. He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside to Yahweh’s house, because of the king of Assyria.
  • 2 Chronicles 29:3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
  • Malachi 1:10 “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

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Explain this verse (8 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 29:7 Also they have shut up the doors…

2Ch 29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.

Ver. 7. Unto the God of Israel.] Whom they have sacrilegiously robbed and wronged. We should be sensible of, and humbled for, the sins of our forefathers, else we are justly chargeable with them.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon. Judah…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They - He saith not, my father, because it…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sanctuary, or court of the priests, where the victims…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Shut up the doors — See 2Ch_28:24, note.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. the lamps] Cp. 2Ch_13:11; Exo_25:31 ff.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) The porch.—Of the holy place, or nave of…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse is the answering echo of 2Ch_28:24.

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