2 Chronik 31:1

Schlachter Bibel

Und nach Beendigung aller dieser Festlichkeiten zogen alle Israeliten, die sich eingefunden hatten, hinaus zu den Städten Judas, zerbrachen die Säulen und hieben die Ascheren um und zerstörten die Höhen und die Altäre in ganz Juda und Benjamin, Ephraim und Manasse, bis sie dieselben gänzlich ausgetilgt hatten. Darnach kehrten alle Kinder Israel wieder zu ihrer Besitzung, in ihre Städte zurück.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Und da dies alles war ausgerichtet, zogen hinaus alle Israeliten, die unter den Städten Juda's gefunden wurden, und zerbrachen die Säulen und hieben die Ascherabilder ab und brachen ab die Höhen und Altäre aus dem ganzen Juda, Benjamin, Ephraim und Manasse, bis sie sie ganz aufräumten. Und die Kinder Israel zogen alle wieder zu ihrem Gut in ihre Städte.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now when: 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

all Israel: 1 Kings 18:38-40, 2 Kings 23:2-20

present: Heb. found, Genesis 19:15, Esther 4:16

brake: 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 23:17, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 34:3-7, Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 7:5, 2 Kings 18:4

images: Heb. statues, 2 Chronicles 30:14

in Ephraim: 2 Chronicles 30:1, 2 Chronicles 30:18, 2 Chronicles 34:6, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Kings 17:2, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:15

until: etc. Heb. until to make an end

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:13 - ye shall Leviticus 26:30 - I will destroy Deuteronomy 12:3 - ye shall 1 Kings 8:66 - the eighth day 2 Kings 18:22 - whose high places 2 Kings 23:19 - the cities 2 Chronicles 17:6 - he took away 2 Chronicles 33:3 - which Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 34:9 - Manasseh Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 30:22 - defile Isaiah 36:7 - is it not Hosea 8:6 - shall Hosea 10:8 - their altars Amos 3:14 - I will Micah 1:7 - all the graven

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now when all this was finished,.... The temple cleansed, the priests and Levites sanctified, the passover and feast of unleavened bread observed, and other seven days of rejoicing kept:

all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin; which had been erected by Ahaz, 2 Chronicles 28:2 at or about this time also the brasen serpent was broke to pieces, 2 Kings 18:4,

in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all; which must be understood of such cities in those tribes that had been taken in former times by the kings of Judah from the kings of Israel; or such as were now in the hands of the Assyrians, who might not concern themselves in matters of religion; or this might be done at the connivance of Hoshea king of Israel, who had no regard to any other idolatry than the worship of the calves; and besides, having met with trouble from the Assyrians, and fearing more, might be willing to have his kingdom cleared of idolatry, in hope the divine displeasure would be removed:

then all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession into their own cities; and not till then, when all monuments of idolatry were removed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jerusalem had been cleansed 2 Chronicles 30:14; now the land had to be purged. Hezekiah therefore gave his sanction to a popular movement directed as much against the “high places” which had been maintained since the times of the patriarchs, as against the remnants of the Baal-worship, or the innovations of Ahaz. See 2 Kings 18:4 note. The invasion of the northern kingdom “Ephraim and Manasseh” by a tumultuous crowd from the southern one, and the success which attended the movement, can only be explained by the state of weakness into which the northern kingdom had fallen (see the note at 2 Chronicles 29:24).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXI

The people destroy all traces of idolatry throughout Judah,

Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, 1.

Hezekiah reforms the state of religion in general; and the

tithes are brought in from all quarters, and proper officers

set over them, 2-13.

They bring to also the freewill-offerings, and regulate the

priests and Levites and their families, according to their

genealogies, 14-19.

Hezekiah does every thing in sincerity and truth, and is

prosperous, 20, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXI

Verse 2 Chronicles 31:1. Brake the images in pieces — This species of reformation was not only carried on through Judah, but they carried it into Israel; whether through a transport of religious zeal, or whether with the consent of Hoshea the Israelitish king, we cannot tell.