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2 Chronicles 30:8

2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked , as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For if ye turn again unto the Lord,.... To the fear or worship of the Lord, as the Targum:

your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

yield yourselves Lit. "give the hand"; cp. 1Ch 29:24 ("submitted themselves").

sanctified for ever Cp. 2Ch 7:16.

the fierceness of his wrath R.V. his fierce anger; cp. 2Ch 29:10 (R.V.).