2 Chronicles 31:1 - Exposition

As much as the last verse of the foregoing chapter was all of the religious fervour of the occasion, this verse is all of the, practical honest work of the people and their leaders. All Israel that were present; i.e. present (or Hebrew, "found") in Jerusalem at the conclusion of the Feast of the Passover. Jerusalem had already been attended to ( 2 Chronicles 31:14 of foregoing chapter). Now the right mind of the people bore the reformation with a wave of enthusiasm over all Judah and Benjamin ; and their righteous zeal carried them also over the strict limits of their own kingdom into Ephraim … and Manasseh —a course the more practicable, and even the more technically correct, because of the crippled state of the northern kingdom, and the probably still continued captivity of King Hoshea of Israel ( 2 Kings 17:1-4 ; 2 Kings 18:1-7 ; compare also the matter of our 2 Chronicles 29:24 ). Images … groves … high places … altars .