2 Chronicles 30:2

Good News Translation

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the king and his officials and the entire congregation in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover of the Lord in the second month,

Hebrew Names Version
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Yerushalayim, to keep the Pesach in the second month.

King James Version
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

English Standard Version
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—

New Century Version
King Hezekiah, his officers, and all the people in Jerusalem agreed to celebrate the Passover in the second month.

New English Translation
The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.

Amplified Bible
For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

New American Standard Bible
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

World English Bible
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King and his princes and all the Congregation had taken counsel in Ierusalem to keepe the Passeouer in the second moneth.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

Berean Standard Bible
For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

Complete Jewish Bible
For the king, his officials and the entire Yerushalayim community had agreed to keep the Pesach in the second month.

Darby Translation
And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Hezekiah agreed with all his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem to have the Passover in the second month.

George Lamsa Translation
For the king and his princes and all the congregation of Israel who were in Jerusalem had taken counsel to celebrate the passover to the LORD God of Israel in the second month.

Lexham English Bible
Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month—

Literal Translation
And the king and his leaders, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, took counsel to keep the Passover in the second month;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge helde a councell with his rulers, and all the cogregacion at Ierusalem, to kepe Passeouer in the seconde moneth:

American Standard Version
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king helde a counsell with his lordes, and all the congregation of Hierusalem, to kepe the feast of passouer in the second moneth:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

King James Version (1611)
For the king had taken counsell, and his Princes, and all the congregation in Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer in the second moneth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the passover in the second month.

English Revised Version
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne counseil was takun of the kyng, and of princes, and of al the cumpeny of Jerusalem, thei demyden to make paske in the secounde moneth.

Update Bible Version
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

New King James Version
For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month.

New Living Translation
The king, his officials, and all the community of Jerusalem decided to celebrate Passover a month later than usual.

New Life Bible
For the king and his rulers and all the people in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month.

New Revised Standard
For the king and his officials and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the passover in the second month

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, the king and his rulers and all the convocation in Jerusalem, had taken counsel, - to keep the passover in the second month.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

Revised Standard Version
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the passover in the second month--

Young's Literal Translation
And the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month,

Contextual Overview

¹The people had not been able to celebrate the Passover Festival at the proper time in the first month, because not enough priests were ritually clean and not many people had assembled in Jerusalem. So King Hezekiah, his officials, and the people of Jerusalem agreed to celebrate it in the second month, and the king sent word to all the people of Israel and Judah. He took special care to send letters to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in honor of the Lord , the God of Israel. ⁴ The king and the people were pleased with their plan, ⁵ so they invited all the Israelites, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, to come together in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover according to the Law, in larger numbers than ever before. ⁶ Messengers went out at the command of the king and his officials through all Judah and Israel with the following invitation: "People of Israel, you have survived the Assyrian conquest of the land. Now return to the Lord , the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he will return to you. ⁷ Do not be like your ancestors and your Israelite relatives who were unfaithful to the Lord their God. As you can see, he punished them severely. ⁸ Do not be stubborn as they were, but obey the Lord . Come to the Temple in Jerusalem, which the Lord your God has made holy forever, and worship him so that he will no longer be angry with you. ⁹ If you return to the Lord , then those who have taken your relatives away as prisoners will take pity on them and let them come back home. The Lord your God is kind and merciful, and if you return to him, he will accept you." ¹⁰ The messengers went to every city in the territory of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far north as the tribe of Zebulun, but people laughed at them and made fun of them. ¹¹ Still, there were some from the tribes of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun who were willing to come to Jerusalem. ¹² God was also at work in Judah and united the people in their determination to obey his will by following the commands of the king and his officials.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: 1 Chronicles 13:1-3, Proverbs 11:14, Proverbs 15:22, Ecclesiastes 4:13

in the second month: In Ijar, as they could not celebrate in Nisan, the 14th of which month was the proper time. But Hezekiah and his counsellors justly concluded, that the regulation of the 14th day of the second month, which had been made for individuals who were hindered from eating the passover at the appointed season, might in their present circumstances be extended to the people at large. Numbers 9:10, Numbers 9:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 8:3 - General Numbers 9:3 - the fourteenth 2 Kings 23:1 - the king 2 Chronicles 1:2 - to the captains 2 Chronicles 30:13 - the second month 2 Chronicles 30:23 - took counsel 2 Chronicles 32:3 - took counsel 2 Chronicles 34:29 - gathered

Cross-References

Genesis 16:2
and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.

Genesis 25:21
Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.

Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was loved less than Rachel, he made it possible for her to have children, but Rachel remained childless.

Genesis 30:5
Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son"; so she named him Dan.

Genesis 30:13
and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.

Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob lost his temper. "What crime have I committed?" he asked angrily. "What law have I broken that gives you the right to hunt me down?

Genesis 50:19
But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God.

Exodus 32:19
When Moses came close enough to the camp to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing, he became furious. There at the foot of the mountain, he threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem,.... He and his nobles, and the great sanhedrim or senate of the nation, had consulted together:

to keep the passover in the second month; in the month Ijar, as the Targum, because they could not keep it in the first month, as it should have been kept, according to the law of God, for the reasons following.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the second month - Hezekiah and his counselors considered that the permission of the Law (see the marginal reference) might, under the circumstances, be extended to the whole people. It had been found impossible to complete the cleansing of the temple until the fourteenth day of the first month was past 2 Chronicles 29:17. It was, therefore, determined to defer it to the 14th of the second month, which allowed time for the priests generally to purify themselves, and for proclamation of the festival to be made throughout all Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 30:2. In the second month. — In Ijar, as they could not celebrate it in Nisan, the fourteenth of which month was the proper time. But as they could not complete the purgation of the temple, till the sixteenth of that month, therefore they were obliged to hold it now, or else adjourn it till the next year, which would have been fatal to that spirit of reformation which had now taken place. The law itself had given permission to those who were at a distance, and could not attend to the fourteenth of the first month, and to those who were accidentally defiled, and ought not to attend, to celebrate the passover on the fourteenth of the second month; see Numbers 9:10-11. Hezekiah therefore, and his counsellors, thought that they might extend that to the people at large, because of the delay necessarily occasioned by the cleansing of the temple, which was granted to individuals in such cases as the above, and the result showed that they had not mistaken the mind of the Lord upon the subject.