- Bible
- 2 Chronicles
- Chapter 30
- Verse 7
2 Chronicles 30:7
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
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Commentary
Trusted original commentary from respected historical Bible scholars and theologians.
Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
who therefore gave them up to desolation Render, so that he gave them up to be an astonishment (so R.V. mg.); cp. 2Ch 29:8 (same Heb. word).