Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
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Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
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Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
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Then they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of the LORD.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 30:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- Exodus 19:10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- Exodus 19:22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
- 2 Chronicles 5:11 When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 31:18 and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.
- Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
- Ezekiel 43:10-11 “You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Seeing their own negligence (who should have been most…
Seeing their own negligence (who should have been most prompt) and the readiness of the people, 2 Chron. 29:36.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the…
2Ch 30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
Ver. 15. Then they killed the passover.] So must we first cast the baggage into the brook, and then come to the Lord’s supper. {1Co 5:7-8}
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And the priests and Levites were ashamed.] As well they might, that they had been so slack and backward to so good a business, so generally and zealously set upon.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The priests and the Levites were ashamed; their negligence…
The priests and the Levites were ashamed; their negligence and remissness being upbraided by the great and general alacrity and forwardness of the people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they stood in their place after their manner,…
And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God,.... The priests in their place, and the Levites in theirs, in which they were ordered to stand when they offered sacrifice:
the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites; the blood either of the burnt offerings before mentioned, or of the passover lambs, which the Levites slew, and received the blood of them in basins; and which the priests took of them, and sprinkled, not on the door posts of houses, as in Egypt, but on the altar round about, and which none but priests might do, Lev 1:5.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ashamed - Their negligence and remissness being upbraided by…
Ashamed - Their negligence and remissness being upbraided by the general forwardness of the people. The zeal which we observe in others, should make us ashamed of our own coldness, and quicken us not only to do our duty, but to do it with our might.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 30:15. The priests and Levites were ashamed —…
2Ch 30:15. The priests and Levites were ashamed — Their negligence and remissness being upbraided by the general forwardness of the people. The zeal which we observe in others, should make us ashamed of our own coldness, and quicken us not only to do our duty, but to do it with our might.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The laggart priests and Levites, who from want of…
The laggart priests and Levites, who from want of zeal for the Yahweh-worship, or from actual inclination to idolatry, had neglected to purify themselves (2Ch 30:3 and marginal reference), were now shamed by the general ardor, and sanctified themselves for the Paschal festival.
And brought in the burnt offerings - Received them, i. e. from the offerers at the doors of the inner court, and took them up to the brass altar in front of the porch. No part of the burnt offerings was ever taken inside the temple building.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain At length. Sept. "were converted." Heb. "ashamed, and sanctified…
At length. Sept. "were converted." Heb. "ashamed, and sanctified themselves." H. --- The ceremonies of purification for priests were longer, (chap. xxix. 34.) and the sacred ministers were ashamed to be outdone by the people. M.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the priests and the Levites were ashamed--Though the Levites…
the priests and the Levites were ashamed--Though the Levites are associated in this statement, the priests were principally referred to; those of them who had been dilatory or negligent in sanctifying themselves (Ch2 29:34) were put to the blush and stimulated to their duty by the greater alacrity and zeal of the people.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. The priests and the Levites were ashamed —…
15. The priests and the Levites were ashamed — Because of their uncleanness and their lack of zeal for Jehovah’s worship. The zeal of others, and the thought of their own tendency to idolatry, put them to the blush. In 2Ch_30:3, and 2Ch_29:34, we learn that the delinquents were chiefly priests; but here it appears that there were Levites also who had not sufficiently sanctified themselves.
Sanctified themselves — Or, had sanctified themselves; that is, previously to the fourteenth day of the month, so that they were ceremonially fit on that day to minister in the passover offerings.
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Into the house of the Lord — Into the court of burnt offerings, where the brazen altar stood.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. the second month] Cp. 2Ch_30:2-3.
15. the second month] Cp. 2Ch_30:2-3.
were ashamed] Of their former backwardness; cp. 2Ch_30:3, 2Ch_29:34.
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brought in the burnt offerings] R.V. brought burnt offerings, i.e. as an atonement for themselves.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And the priests and the Levites were ashamed,…
(15) And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves.—Ashamed of their former reluctance to purify themselves from the defilement contracted by their connection with illegal cults and sanctuaries during the late reign (2Ch_29:34; and 2Ch_30:3, supra). In the former passage the Levites are favourably contrasted with the priests; here they are spoken of in the same terms, a verbal inaccuracy apparently due to the writer’s desire to be brief.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Were ashamed; Hebrew, Wmlkgi. This word, occurring in one…
Were ashamed; Hebrew, Wmlkgi. This word, occurring in one conjugation or another thirty-eight times, expresses in every instance a genuine shame. It now was the forerunner of a practical repenting. And brought in into; better rendered, and carried up to the house of the Lord.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 30:15 The priests were inadequately prepared for the great…
30:15 The priests were inadequately prepared for the great number of people who came. The problem might have involved the priests who came from outside the city and had not been a part of the earlier purification. However, the response of the people outstripped that of the professional clerics, to their great shame.
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