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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 30:20

The Lord answered Hezekiah's prayer and did not punish them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Form;   Israel;   Month;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feast of the Passover, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Passover;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sama'ria, Country of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heal;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD listened to Hizkiyahu, and healed the people.
King James Version
And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
English Standard Version
And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
New Century Version
The Lord listened to Hezekiah's prayer, and he healed the people.
New English Translation
The Lord responded favorably to Hezekiah and forgave the people.
Amplified Bible
So the LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people [of their uncleanness].
New American Standard Bible
So the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
World English Bible
Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai heard Hizkiyahu and healed the people.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord listened to King Hezekiah's prayer and forgave the people.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Good News Translation
The Lord answered Hezekiah's prayer; he forgave the people and did not harm them.
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and he healed the people.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE herde Ezechias, and healed the people.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde heard Hezekia, and healed the people.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord hearkened to Ezekias, and healed the people.
English Revised Version
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord herde hym, and was plesid to the puple.
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
New King James Version
And the LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
New Living Translation
And the Lord listened to Hezekiah's prayer and healed the people.
New Life Bible
And the Lord heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.
New Revised Standard
The Lord heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh hearkened unto Hezekiah, and healed the people.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD heard Hezeki'ah, and healed the people.
Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hearkeneth unto Hezekiah, and healeth the people.
THE MESSAGE
God responded to Hezekiah's prayer and healed the people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Contextual Overview

13 In the second month, a large crowd of people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Thin Bread. 14 They took all the foreign altars and incense altars in Jerusalem and threw them into Kidron Valley. 15Then, on the fourteenth day of that same month, the Levites began killing the lambs for Passover, because many of the worshipers were unclean and were not allowed to kill their own lambs. Meanwhile, some of the priests and Levites felt ashamed because they had not gone through the ceremony to make themselves clean. They immediately went through that ceremony and went to the temple, where they offered sacrifices to please the Lord . Then the priests and Levites took their positions, according to the Law of Moses, the servant of God. As the Levites killed the lambs, they handed some of the blood to the priests, who splattered it on the altar. 18Most of the people that came from Ephraim, West Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not made themselves clean, but they ignored God's Law and ate the Passover lambs anyway. Hezekiah found out what they had done and prayed, " Lord God, these people are unclean according to the laws of holiness. But they are worshiping you, just as their ancestors did. So, please be kind and forgive them." 20 The Lord answered Hezekiah's prayer and did not punish them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

healed: Exodus 15:26, Psalms 103:3, James 5:15, James 5:16

Reciprocal: Isaiah 33:24 - the inhabitant

Cross-References

Genesis 29:34
When Leah's third son was born, she said, "Now my husband will hold me close." So this son was named Levi.
Genesis 30:15
but Leah said, "It's bad enough that you stole my husband! Now you want my son's love flowers too." "All right," Rachel answered. "Let me have the flowers, and you can sleep with Jacob tonight."
Genesis 35:23
Jacob had twelve sons while living in northern Syria. His first-born Reuben was the son of Leah, who later gave birth to Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Leah's servant Zilpah had two sons: Gad and Asher. Jacob and his wife Rachel had Joseph and Benjamin. Rachel's servant woman Bilhah had two more sons: Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 49:13
Zebulun, you will settle along the seashore and provide safe harbors as far north as Sidon.
Judges 4:10
where Barak called together the troops from Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand soldiers gathered there, and Barak led them out from Kedesh. Deborah went too.
Judges 5:14
Troops came from Ephraim, where Amalekites once lived. Others came from Benjamin; officers and leaders came from Machir and Zebulun.
Psalms 68:27
The small tribe of Benjamin leads the way, followed by the leaders from Judah. Then come the leaders from Zebulun and Naphtali.
Matthew 4:13
But instead of staying in Nazareth, Jesus moved to Capernaum. This town was beside Lake Galilee in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah,.... Heard his prayer, and accepted of it, and granted what he desired:

and healed his people; that is, forgave their sins, as Kimchi interprets it; forgiveness being expressed by healing, for which he refers to Psalms 41:4 to which may be added Psalms 103:3 and which was known either by a prophet sent to declare it, or by not punishing them for their offence.


 
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