“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.
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“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.
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Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
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Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof.' And they brought back word unto the king.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 34:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Isaiah 39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
- 1 Kings 21:29 “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
- Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
- Jeremiah 15:1 Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
- 2 Kings 20:19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”
- 2 Kings 22:20 ‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.
- Ezekiel 14:14-21 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh. “If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. “Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’ though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves. “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.” For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain It may appear that very few were touched with…
It may appear that very few were touched with true repentance, seeing that God spared them for a time only for the king’s sake.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy…
2Ch 34:28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
Ver. 28. Behold, I will gather thee.] See 2Ki 22:20.
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All the evil.] War, and all the evils that attend it, as filth falleth into a sink.
So they brought the king word.] They were no way guilty of that fault which the Greeks call παραπρεσβεια, or delivering a wrong message.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 28. Gathered to thy grave in peace] See…
Verse 28. Gathered to thy grave in peace] See particularly Clarke's note on "2Ki 22:20".
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Peace. The country enjoyed peace, as Pharao was gone;…
Peace. The country enjoyed peace, as Pharao was gone; (M.) and Josias did not witness the evils here denounced. T. --- This was a blessing. W.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. of the same] R.V. thereof. Cp. the similar…
28. of the same] R.V. thereof. Cp. the similar promise made to Ahab (1Ki_21:29).
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers.
2Ch_34:28
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers.
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The saints refreshing
I. That God takes notice of every good thing His children do and rewards them for it even in this life.
II. How the Spirit of God in common matters doth raise up the soul to think highly of them. It sweetens death with the phrase of gathering.
III. That death is nothing but a gathering.
IV. That the changes of Gods children are for the better.
V. That burial is a comely and honourable thing.
VI. That death is less miserable than the ill which a man may live to see in this life
VII. That our times are in Gods hands.
VIII. That it is the sight of misery which works the deepest impression.
IX. That those which be dead in the Lord are freed from seeing of any evil or misery.
X. Another conclusion, that takes away their invocation of saints.
XI. That the lives of Gods children do keep back judgment and evil from the place where they live, and their death is a forerunner of judgment. Because--
1. Gracious men do make the times and the places good where they live.
2. Gracious men do bind God by their prayers.
XII. That the evils which we suffer are from the evil of sin.
XIII. That God will give good men faithful servants that shall deal faithfully with them. The messengers dealt faithfully with Josiah.
XIV. That the care of the commonwealth and of the Church is a duty.
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