2 Chronicles 15:13

They promised to execute all those who would not worship Yahweh, including those who were important and those who were not important, both men and women.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

In Context

12They solemnly made an agreement to very sincerely worship Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.

14They shouted and blew trumpets and other horns while they solemnly promised to do that.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:29At midnight Yahweh killed all the oldest sons of the Egyptian people, all over Egypt. That included the king’s oldest son, the oldest sons of the prisoners in the dungeon/jail, and the oldest sons of everyone else. He also killed the oldest males of all the Egyptians’ livestock.

Exodus 22:20You must offer sacrifices only to Yahweh. You must execute anyone who offers a sacrifice to any other god.

Deuteronomy 17:2“When you are living in any of the towns in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, suppose you hear that there is some man or woman who sins by disobeying the agreement that Yahweh has made with you.

1 Kings 18:40Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize all the prophets of Baal! Do not allow any of them to escape!” So the people seized all the prophets of Baal, and took them down the mountain to the Kishon Valley, and Elijah killed them all there.

Job 34:19He does not favor rulers more than he favors others; he does not favor rich people more than poor people, because he created all of them.

Zephaniah 1:6I will get rid of all those who previously worshiped me but no longer do, those who no longer seek my help or ask me to tell them what they should do.”

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 15:9-19

Asa Reforms His Kingdom. ( b. c. 940.) 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord , that was before the porch of the Lord . 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they… Read the whole commentary →

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