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2 Chronicles 30:4

And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Derision;   Form;   Liberality;   Month;   Passover;   Proclamation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judah, Kingdom of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Letter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sama'ria, Country of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The proposal pleased the king and the congregation,
Hebrew Names Version
The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
King James Version
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
English Standard Version
and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
New Century Version
This plan satisfied King Hezekiah and all the people.
New English Translation
The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.
Amplified Bible
Thus the [decision to set a] new time pleased the king and the entire assembly.
New American Standard Bible
So the decision was right in the sight of the king and all the assembly.
World English Bible
The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the thing pleased the King, and all the Congregation.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus the thing was right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.
Berean Standard Bible
This proposal pleased the king and all the assembly.
Complete Jewish Bible
The idea had seemed right to the king and to the whole community;
Darby Translation
And the thing pleased the king and the whole congregation.
Easy-to-Read Version
The agreement satisfied King Hezekiah and all the assembly.
George Lamsa Translation
And the thing pleased the king and all the people of Israel.
Good News Translation
The king and the people were pleased with their plan,
Lexham English Bible
and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.
Literal Translation
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of the congregation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it pleased the kynge well and all the cogregacion.
American Standard Version
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the congregation.
King James Version (1611)
And the thing pleased the king, and all the Congregation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the proposal pleased the king and the congregation.
English Revised Version
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the congregation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word pleside the king, and al the multitude.
Update Bible Version
And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
New King James Version
And the matter pleased the king and all the assembly.
New Living Translation
This plan for keeping the Passover seemed right to the king and all the people.
New Life Bible
So the new time pleased the king and all the people.
New Revised Standard
The plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the thing was right, in the eyes of the king, - and in the eyes of all the convocation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.
Revised Standard Version
and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
Young's Literal Translation
And the thing is right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of all the assembly,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus the thing was right in the sight of the king and all the assembly.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. 2 For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month. 3 It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem. 4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people. 5 So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law. 6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria. 7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see. 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you. 9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him. 10 So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pleased the king: Heb. was right in the eyes of the king, 1 Chronicles 13:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 45:16 - it pleased Pharaoh well Joshua 22:30 - it pleased them 2 Samuel 17:4 - pleased Absalom well Zechariah 11:12 - ye think good Acts 15:22 - pleased

Cross-References

Genesis 21:10
So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.
Genesis 22:24
And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
Genesis 25:1
And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
Genesis 25:6
But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.
Genesis 30:3
Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.
Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Genesis 33:2
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
Genesis 35:22
Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.
2 Samuel 12:11
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the thing pleased the king, and all the congregation. They all unanimously agreed to it, and determined it should be done.


 
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