2 Chronicles 30 · Verse 15

2 Chronicles 30:15

Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:15, King James Version

2 Chronicles 30:15 in other translations

BSBAnd on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
WEBThen they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the LORD’s house.
ASVThen they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.
YLTand they slaughter the passover-offering on the fourteenth of the second month, and the priests and the Levites have been ashamed, and sanctify themselves, and bring in burnt-offerings to the house of Jehovah.
DARBYAnd they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and hallowed themselves; and they brought the burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.
BBEThen on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.
WebsterThen they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt-offerings into the house of the LORD.

What does 2 Chronicles 30:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. the priests and the Levites were ashamed--Though the Levites are associated in this statement, the priests were principally referred to; those of them who had been dilatory or negligent in sanctifying themselves (2Ch 29:34) were put to the blush and stimulated to their duty by the greater alacrity and zeal of the people.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 30:13-20

The great thing needful in attendance upon God in solemn ordinances, is, that we make heart-work of it; all is nothing without this. Where this sincerity and fixedness of heart are, there may yet be many things short of the purification of the sanctuary. These defects need pardoning, healing grace; for omissions in duty are sins, as well as omissions of duty. If God should deal with us in strict justice, even as to…

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2 Chronicles 30:15 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּשְׁחֲט֣וּvai.yish.cha.Tuand they slaughteredH7819
הַפֶּ֔סַחha.Pe.sachthe passoverH6453
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥הbe.'ar.ba.'Ahon [day] four-H702
עָשָׂ֖ר'a.SarteenH6240
לַחֹ֣דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320
הַשֵּׁנִ֑יha.she.Ni<the> secondH8145
וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֨יםve.ha.ko.ha.Nimand the priestsH3548
וְהַלְוִיִּ֤םve.hal.vi.Yimand the LevitesH3881
נִכְלְמוּ֙nikh.le.Muthey were ashamedH3637
וַיִּֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּvai.yit.ka.de.Shuand they consecrated themselvesH6942
וַיָּבִ֥יאוּvai.ya.Vi.'uand they broughtH935
עֹל֖וֹתo.Lotburnt offeringsH5930
בֵּ֥יתbeit[the] house ofH1004
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 30:15

  • 2 Chronicles 29:34

    But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Ezekiel 43:10-11

    Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

  • Exodus 19:22

    And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:24

    For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

  • 2 Chronicles 5:11

    And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

  • 2 Chronicles 31:18

    And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

  • 2 Chronicles 29:15

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 16:61-63

    Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

  • Exodus 19:10

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
were ashamed.
29:34; Eze 16:61-63; 43:10,11
and sanctified.
24; 5:11; 29:15,34; 31:18; Ex 19:10,22

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 30:14

    And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:15

    Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:16

    And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

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2 Chronicles 30:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Entonces sacrificaron la pascua, á los catorce del mes segundo; y los sacerdotes y los Levitas se santificaron con vergüenza, y trajeron los holocaustos á la casa de Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et on égorgea la pâque le quatorzième jour du second mois; et les sacrificateurs et les lévites avaient eu honte et s’étaient sanctifiés; et ils amenèrent des holocaustes dans la maison de l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und man schlachtete das Passah am Vierzehnten des zweiten Monats. Denn die Priester und die Leviten hatten sich geschämt und hatten sich geheiligt; und sie brachten Brandopfer in das Haus Jehovas.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Immolaverunt autem Phase quartadecima die mensis secundi. Sacerdotes quoque atque Levitæ tandem sanctificati, obtulerunt holocausta in domo Domini: