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Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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2 Chronicles 30:4

The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly.

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.
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.
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

1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord 's temple in Jerusalem and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel. 2 The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month. 3 They were unable to observe it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem. 4 The proposal seemed appropriate to the king and the entire assembly. 5 So they sent an edict throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. 6 Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: "O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 7 Don't be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see. 8 Now, don't be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. 9 For if you return to the Lord , your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him." 10 The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them.

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, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!"
Genesis 22:24
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children—Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.
Genesis 25:6
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.
Genesis 30:3
She replied, "Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her."
Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.
Genesis 33:2
He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
2 Samuel 12:11
This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives 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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