2 Chronicles 30:6

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

Here is, I. A passover resolved upon. That annual feast was instituted as a memorial of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt. It happened that the reviving of the temple service fell within the appointed days of that feast, the seventeenth day of the first month: this brought that forgotten solemnity to mind. ?What shall we do,? says Hezekiah, ?about the passover? It is a very comfortable ordinance, and has been long neglected. How shall we revive it? The time has elapsed for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah ,.... Both through the kingdoms of the ten tribes of Israel, and the kingdom of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin: and according to the commandment of the king, saying ; so they were ordered by the king to say, when they delivered the letters which by the king's commandment they carried; or this was the purport of them, as follows, especially of those that were sent to the ten tribes: ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts went - רצים ratsim , the runners or couriers; persons who were usually employed to carry messages; men who were light of foot, and confidential. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:1-11

Letters to Ephraim: generosity. Hezekiah now took a very bold and decided course. There had been no direct dealings between the king or court of Judah and the people of Ephraim (Israel) since the kingdom of David was rent in twain. If we understand that this action was taken in the first year of his reign, while Hoshea was on the throne of Samaria, it certainly was bold even to audacity, and was calculated to rouse the resentment of that ruler. If, however, we hold (with Keil and others)... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:1-12

Preparations for a grand national Passover. I. A PASSOVER DECIDED ON . ( 2 Chronicles 30:1 , 2 Chronicles 30:5 .) 1 . By whom ! Hezekiah, his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, with both of whom he had taken counsel. The important step, not adopted without deliberation, was concurred in by the entire body of the people ( 2 Chronicles 30:4 ). If any in the nation held aloof, these were the priests and the Levites ( 2 Chronicles 30:15 ). 2 . For whom... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:1-27

The celebration of the Passover, with its sacred suggestions. The whole of this chapter is concerned with Hezekiah's call of priests, Levites, princes, and congregation of the people to observe and celebrate with himself the grand solemnity of the Passover. From the analogy of the precedent provided for individual cases of certain kinds of necessity ( Numbers 9:10 ), this celebration for the whole nation is fixed for the fourteenth day of the second month instead of the first. This was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:6

So the posts (see note on 2 Chronicles 30:1 ). The remnant of you … escaped … of Assyria . Hezekiah had, no doubt, already made his account with the fact that the injured and crushed state of the northern kingdom might be of salutary omen for the attempt on his part to bring them to a sense of their past sins, specially perhaps of omission. Of the calamities of Israel, and their captivity in large part, and in the rest subjection by tribute to Assyria, there is clear testimony in 2... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:6-9

Four reasons for repentance. The letters which Hezekiah sent throughout the cities and villages of Israel contained an earnest exhortation to repentance; they urged upon the inhabitants of that distressed land that, for the strongest reasons, they should return from their idolatrous ways, and worship the true and living God in his own temple. These considerations are fourfold. I. IT IS TO THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS THEY WERE EXHORTED TO RETURN . "Children of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 30:6

The posts went - The bearers of the letters were probably the “runners” who formed a portion of the king’s body-guard (2 Kings 10:25 note).The kings of Assyria - Pul, Tiglath-pileser, and Shalmaneser may all be referred to in this passage (compare the marginal reference and 2 Kings 17:3). The passage by no means implies that the fall of Samaria and final captivity of the Israelites had as yet taken place. read more

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