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. They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites. For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron. 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. They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites. For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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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.
They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”
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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.
And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
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.
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 prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
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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.
And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests dashed the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
For there were many in the congregation that had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passover lambs for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
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 is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying: 'The good LORD pardon
every one that setteth his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification that pertaineth to holy things.'
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- 2 Chronicles 29:34 (vv15, 17) But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until…
- 2 Chronicles 19:3 (v19) Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek…
- Proverbs 23:26 (v19) My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
- 1 Corinthians 11:28 (v18) But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
- James 5:15-16 (v18) and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess…
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- 2 Chronicles 6:21 (v18) Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place,…
- 2 Chronicles 35:3-6 (v17) He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king…
- Job 11:13 (v19) “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
- Psalms 10:17 (v19) Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
- Daniel 9:19 (v18) Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by…
- Genesis 20:7 (v18) Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for…
- Exodus 12:43-51 (v18) Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, but every man’s servant who is bought…
- Numbers 19:20 (v18) But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled…
- Deuteronomy 33:1 (v16) This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
- 1 Chronicles 29:18 (v19) Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and…
- 2 Chronicles 20:33 (v19) However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 30:11 (v18) Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 (v18) All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out…
- 2 Chronicles 35:15 (v16) The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and…
- Ezra 7:10 (v19) For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
- Psalms 25:8 (v18) Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
- Genesis 20:17 (v18) Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
- Exodus 12:6 (v17) You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- Exodus 19:10 (v15) Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- Exodus 19:22 (v15) Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
- Exodus 34:6-9 (v18) Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness…
- Leviticus 1:5 (v16) He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is…
- Leviticus 12:4 (v19) She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until…
- Leviticus 15:31-33 (v19) “ ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my…
- Leviticus 21:17-23 (v19) “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God. For…
- Leviticus 22:3-6 (v19) “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy…
- Numbers 9:6 (v19) There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they…
- Numbers 14:18-20 (v18) ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty,…
- Numbers 19:13-20 (v19) Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall…
- 1 Samuel 7:3 (v19) Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and…
- 2 Kings 11:14 (v16) and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the…
- 2 Chronicles 5:11 (v15) 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…
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 (v15) They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse…
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 (v15) For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the…
- 2 Chronicles 31:18 (v15) and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the…
- 2 Chronicles 35:10-11 (v16) So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.…
- Job 42:8-9 (v18) Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and…
- Psalms 86:5 (v18) For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Psalms 119:68 (v18) You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
- Ezekiel 16:61-63 (v15) 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…
- Ezekiel 43:10-11 (v15) “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…
- Hebrews 11:28 (v16) By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
- 1 John 5:16 (v18) If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to…
- Psalms 36:5 (v18) Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 18 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 On vv15–19 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 On vv15–19 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 On vv15–19 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 On vv15, 19 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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Verse 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 countries that had been wholly devoted to idolatry.
The good Lord pardon every one] "The Lord, who is good, have mercy on this people who err." - T.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 18, 19 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 On vv15–16 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 On vv15–18 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 On vv15–16 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 On vv15–18 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 On vv15–18 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 On vv15–19 (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 On vv15–18 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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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v17 For them were many in the congregation that were…
2Ch_30:17-20
For them were many in the congregation that were not sanctified.
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Unfitness for the Communion
I. There are seasons when we feel unfit for the sacred ordinance of the Lords house. Let us think of the ways in which the Israelites were rendered unfit for the Passover and see how far they tally with our unfitness for the Supper.
1. Some were kept away by defilement.
(1) The dead in sin lie all around us; contact with their ways and motives, unless we are continually cleansed by Divine grace, is defiling in many ways.
(2) The mass of sin within our own selves is a constant source of defilement.
2. When a man was on a journey he could not keep the Passover. The hearts blood of the Eucharist, is nearness to God; and when we are afar off, it is a poor dead ceremony.
3. You may have been in an evil case from unknown causes. You feel it is not with you as in days past. Marring influences not mentioned in the Book of Numbers may have been preventing you from eating the spiritual Passover to your hearts content. Among these causes are--
(1) Little faith.
(2) The absence of overflowing joy.
(3) Spiritual weakness at all points.
(4) A feeling of uselessness. Whatever your disqualifications, bring them and turn them into confessions of sin.
II. Though we feel and lament our want of preparation we may still come to the feast. Let us to some extent follow in the track of the men in Hezekiahs time.
1. They forgot their differences.
2. They removed the idols.
3. They endeavoured to prepare their hearts.
4. They made open and explicit confession unto God.
5. Confession made, let prayer ascend to heaven.
III. In so coming we may expect a blessing. At the Passover in Hezekiahs days there was--
1. Great gladness.
2. Great praise to God.
3. Great communion with God.
4. A great enthusiasm.
5. Great liberality.
6. Another great breaking of idols. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
Personal sanctification requisite for acceptable worship
I. The principle which is essential to acceptable worship.
Sanctification (Heb_10:22). Sanctification of heart is necessary if you consider--
1. The character of God who is worshipped (Isa_6:1-5).
2. The nature of the worship required.
3. The design of all religious worship.
(1) To glorify God.
(2) To promote our increasing likeness to God.
II. The assertion that in many this principle was wanting. This charge is--
1. Comprehensive.
2. Tremendously awful.
Connect it with the declaration of the Saviour, If I wash thee not thou hast no part with Me. (Essex Congregational Remembrancer.)
The peoples state and condition
This text, though it speaketh of the celebration of the Passover, yet will well enough befit the solemnity of the Lords Supper.
I. The indisposition or unpreparedness of the people. A multitude of the people had not cleansed themselves.
1. In these times in which there is much care had about the right celebration of a sacrament, there are many yet that are unworthy.
(1) Because there is a great deal of laziness in people, and an unwillingness against such a soul-searching ordinance as the sacrament.
(2) There is a great deal of hypocrisy in many men, and it is possible that they may carry their naughtiness so secretly that they may hide it from the most discerning eye.
2. If when much care is taken about the ordinances, many are unworthy to come, it serveth,
(1) To show what need we in this land have to humble ourselves, as for other sins, so especially for our sacramental sins.
(2) For a double exhortation:
(a) To pastors, that they should use all diligent care to prevent this unworthiness, by instructing the people in the nature of the ordinances, and by admonishing them of the danger of their unprepared coming.
(b) To the people. To stir them up every one to look unto himself whether he be not one of the number. A gracious heart is apt to suspect itself (Mat_26:22). The unprepared, unworthy receiver is he that doth not come with answerable meet affections, and so holy and reverent a frame of spirit as God requires we should bring into His presence. They are--All ignorant persons that cannot discern the Lords body. Those that do not judge and condemn themselves (1Co_11:31-32). A gracious prepared heart is a self-judging heart: a wicked heart is loth to come to trial. Those that come in uncharitableness and malice.
3. There is no cause why men should abstain from the use of ordinances, for fear of communicating with wicked and profane men.
II. Their practice notwithstanding. Yet they did eat the Passover otherwise than was written. Many rush on ordinances notwithstanding their unpreparedness. The reasons are--
1. The remissness, or abuse of the censures, of the Church, that do not restrain such persons from coming.
2. It proceedeth from ourselves, because--
(1) There is a great deal of ignorance and unbelief in the hearts of most men.
(2) Custom prevaileth with most rather than conscience. Custom usually eateth out the strength of any performance, and dissolves it into a mere formality.
III. The fault of their practice. They ate otherwise than was written. Gods service is a written service. We offend in our duties when we do otherwise than is written. We do this--
1. When we do too much.
1. The essentials of a sacrament are set down in the institution; there is the rule. If we seek to patch it up with some zealous additions and pieces of our own, we go beyond the rule.
2. In the outward part of duty, in corporal service, and in the pomp and solemnity of his worship, there we may do too much--more than we need to have done. It is easy to be too pompous in a sacrament, and to sin against the plainness of the ordinance. Duties are like your coats of arms, best when they are plainest, and not overcharged with too many fillings; or like wine, then most generous and sprightly, when it is pure and uncompounded. The sacraments were to feed mens hearts, not to please their eyes, or tickle their ears. Ordinances nourish best when they come nearest their primitive institution. We may, then, do too much here. A sense-pleasing religion is dangerous, it is too much suitable to our natural inclinations; and that is the reason why country people are so much taken with these shows; they do not love the native beauty that is in duties half so well as they do the painting of them. It is a miserable thing when you will place religion in that for which you have no ground nor warrant. If you will find yourselves work, and not take that which is cut out for you, you know who must pay you your wages. Mark the question of the Saviour (Mat_15:3).
2. When we do too little. When we come not up to the spiritual part of the commandment. Consider what is required about duty--
(1) Something about the heart before duty. Preparation (verse 19). We must come with faith and repentance and other qualifications; we must come with a desire to find the Lord (Psa_93:1).
(2) Something about the heart in duty. Stirring it up. A duty done without life and efficacy is as a duty not done at all. We come short of the rule if we come not with holy life and activity, with a working waiting spirit that will warm our hearts within us, and make them burn under the ordinances. See what a qualification James requireth in prayer (Jam_5:16). There is an expression (Act_27:7). Instantly serving God day and night, which means in the original, with the forcible putting to of all their might and strength, with their stretched-out strength. There can never be too much done in respect of the spiritual part of the commandment.
3. Something to be done after duty. Recollecting and running over all the carriage of the heart towards God in the duty, and the gracious intercourse that the soul had with God. (T. Manton, D. D.)
Hezekiahs prayer for the Israelites
I. The irregularity which some of the people were guilty of.
II. Hezekiahs prayer for them.
III. The success of this praying. Application:
1. Let this history engage us to seek the God of our fathers, by observing all His ordinances.
2. Let this subject make us solicitous to prepare our hearts for every religious solemnity.
3. Let this subject encourage those whose hearts are prepared to seek God.
4. Let this subject excite those who have the care of others to watch over them and pray for them. (J. Orton.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv16, 18 They stood in their place by their divisions
They stood in their place by their divisions
"They stood in their appointed places"
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the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites
This refers to the blood of the lambs that the Levites killed. Here "received from the hand of the Levites" is a metonym for the Levites giving the blood to the priests. AT: "the blood that they received from the Levites" or "the lambs' blood that the Levites gave to them" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information and Metonymy)
the Passover lambs
"the lambs for the Passover"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv15, 17 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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