2 Chronicles 30:18

For, the multitude of the people, many out of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, for they did eat the passover, otherwise than as was written,—for Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May Yahweh the Good, put a propitiatory-covering about

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17For there were many in the convocation, who had not hallowed themselves,—but, the Levites, were over the slaughtering of the passover-lambs, for every one who was, not pure, to hallow him unto Yahweh.

19every one who hath prepared, his heart, to seek God, even Yahweh, God of his fathers,—though not according to the purification of the sanctuary!

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Cross References

Genesis 20:17And Abraham prayed unto God,—and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, so that they bare children,

Exodus 34:6So Yahweh passed before him, and proclaimed,—Yahweh, Yahweh, A God of compassion and favour,—Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and faithfulness:

Numbers 9:7Then said those men unto him, We, are unclean by a dead person,—wherefore should we become of less esteem for want of offering the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?

Numbers 14:18Yahweh—slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth.

2 Kings 5:18In this thing, Yahweh grant forgiveness to thy servant,—When my lord entereth the house of Rimmon, to bow down therein, he leaning upon my hand, and so I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when he boweth down in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh, I pray, grant forgiveness to thy servant, in this thing.

2 Chronicles 30:11Howbeit, some, out of Asher and Manasseh and out of Zebulun, humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 30:14-21

The Celebration of the Passover. ( b. c. 726.) 13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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