2 Chronicles 30 · Verse 2

2 Chronicles 30:2

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles 30:2, King James Version

2 Chronicles 30:2 in other translations

BSBFor the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,
WEBFor the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
ASVFor the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
YLTAnd the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,
DARBYAnd the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.
BBEFor 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.
WebsterFor the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

What does 2 Chronicles 30:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 30:1-5

2Ch 30:1-12. Hezekiah Proclaims a Passover. 1-5. Hezekiah sent to all ... Judah ... to come to ... Jerusalem, to keep the passover--This great religious festival had not been regularly observed by the Hebrews in their national capacity for a long time because of the division of the kingdom and the many disorders that had followed that unhappy event. Hezekiah longed extremely to see its observance revived; and the…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 Num 9:10, Num 9:11. 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 30:1-12

Hezekiah made Israel as welcome to the passover, as any of his own subjects. Let us yield ourselves unto the Lord. Say not, you will do what you please, but resolve to do what he pleases. We perceive in the carnal mind a stiffness, an obstinacy, an unaptness to compel with God; we have it from our fathers: this must be overcome. Those who, through grace, have turned to God themselves, should do all they can to bring…

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2 Chronicles 30:2 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּוָּעַ֨ץvai.yi.va.'Atzand he had taken counselH3289
הַמֶּ֧לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
וְשָׂרָ֛יוve.sa.Ravand officials hisH8269
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
הַקָּהָ֖לha.ka.Halthe assemblyH6951
בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑םbi.ru.sha.Limin JerusalemH3389
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹתla.'a.Sotto observeH6213
הַפֶּ֖סַחha.Pe.sachthe passoverH6453
בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320
הַשֵּׁנִֽי\׃ha.she.Ni<the> secondH8145

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

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 30:2

  • Numbers 9:10-11

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:13

    And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

  • Proverbs 11:14

    Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

  • 1 Chronicles 13:1-3

    And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:13

    Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

  • Proverbs 15:22

    Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the king.
1Ch 13:1-3; Pr 11:14; 15:22; Ec 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.
Nu 9:10,11

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 30:1

    And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:2

    For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:3

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 30:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y había el rey tomado consejo con sus príncipes, y con toda la congregación en Jerusalem, para celebrar la pascua en el mes segundo:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et le roi, et ses chefs, et toute la congrégation à Jérusalem, tinrent conseil pour faire la Pâque au second mois;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und der König und seine Obersten und die ganze Versammlung in Jerusalem wurden Rats, das Passah im zweiten Monat zu feiern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Inito ergo consilio regis et principum, et universi cœtus Jerusalem, decreverunt ut facerent Phase mense secundo.