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Thursday, July 24th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 30:4

The king and the people were pleased with their plan,

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

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

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
Sarah saw them and said to Abraham, "Send this slave and her son away. The son of this woman must not get any part of your wealth, which my son Isaac should inherit."
Genesis 22:24
Reumah, Nahor's concubine, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 25:6
but while he was still alive, he gave presents to the sons his other wives had borne him. Then he sent these sons to the land of the East, away from his son Isaac.
Genesis 30:3
She said, "Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her."
Genesis 30:4
So she gave Bilhah to her husband, and he had intercourse with her.
Genesis 33:2
He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 35:22
While Jacob was living in that land, Reuben had sexual intercourse with Bilhah, one of his father's concubines; Jacob heard about it and was furious. Jacob had twelve sons.
2 Samuel 12:11
I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble on you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man; and he will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.

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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