2 Chronicles 30:2

Green's Literal Translation

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

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—

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

¹ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, to make a Passover to Jehovah the God of Israel. ² And the king and his leaders, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, took counsel to keep the Passover in the second month; ³ since they could not do it at that time, for the priests had not cleansed themselves enough. And the people had not been gathered to Jerusalem. ⁴ And the thing was right in the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of the congregation. ⁵ And they established a decree to pass through a call to all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, to come to make a Passover to Jehovah the God of Israel in Jerusalem. For not many of them had done as it is written. ⁶ And the runners went with letters from the king's hand, and his leaders, to all Israel and Judah; even by the king's command, saying, O sons of Israel return to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac,and Israel. And He shall return to the remnantleft of you from the hand of the king of Assyria. ⁷ And do not be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully against Jehovah the God of their fathers; and He made them for a horror, as you see. ⁸ Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers. Give a hand to Jehovah and come to His holy place that He has sanctified forever; and serve Jehovah your God. And the fierceness of His anger will turn away from you. ⁹ For when you return to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and He will notturn His face away from you, if youturn back to Him. ¹⁰ And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. And they were laughing at them, and mocking them.

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 Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 20:18
For Jehovah had completely closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

Genesis 25:21
And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Genesis 29:31
And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated. And He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 30:5
And Bilhah conceived and bore a son to Jacob.

Genesis 30:6
And Rachel said, God has judged and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son. So she called his name Dan.

Genesis 30:13
And Leah said, In my happiness; for the daughters shall call me happy. And she called his name Asher.

Genesis 30:14
And in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went out and found love-apples in the field. And he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Please give to me from the love-apples of your son.

Genesis 31:36
And Jacob was angry, and he argued with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression; what my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

Genesis 50:19
And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God?

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.