John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, .... Obstinate and refractory, like heifers unaccustomed to the yoke, which draw back from it, and will not submit to it: but yield yourselves unto the Lord ; be subject unto him, or "give the hand" F17 תנו יד "date manum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; to him, as a token of subjection and homage, or of entering into covenant with him, promising for the future to serve and obey him: and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath... read more
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