2 Chroniques 30:21-27

21 Ainsi les enfants d'Israël qui se trouvèrent à Jérusalem célébrèrent la fête des pains sans levain, pendant sept jours, avec une grande joie; et chaque jour les Lévites et les sacrificateurs louaient l'Eternel avec les instruments qui retentissaient en son honneur.

22 Ezéchias parla au coeur de tous les Lévites, qui montraient une grande intelligence pour le service de l'Eternel. Ils mangèrent les victimes pendant sept jours, offrant des sacrifices d'actions de grâces, et louant l'Eternel, le Dieu de leurs pères.

23 Toute l'assemblée fut d'avis de célébrer sept autres jours. Et ils célébrèrent joyeusement ces sept jours;

24 car Ezéchias, roi de Juda, avait donné à l'assemblée mille taureaux et sept mille brebis, et les chefs lui donnèrent mille taureaux et dix mille brebis, et des sacrificateurs en grand nombre s'étaient sanctifiés.

25 Toute l'assemblée de Juda, et les sacrificateurs et les Lévites, et tout le peuple venu d'Israël, et les étrangers venus du pays d'Israël ou établis en Juda, se livrèrent à la joie.

26 Il y eut à Jérusalem de grandes réjouissances; et depuis le temps de Salomon, fils de David, roi d'Israël, rien de semblable n'avait eu lieu dans Jérusalem.

27 Les sacrificateurs et les Lévites se levèrent et bénirent le peuple; et leur voix fut entendue, et leur prière parvint jusqu'aux cieux, jusqu'à la sainte demeure de l'Eternel.

2 Chroniques 30:21-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 30

Hezekiah having consulted his nobles about keeping the passover the second month, and determined upon it, sent messengers throughout Israel and Judah, to acquaint them with it, at which some mocked, and others seriously attended to it, 2Ch 30:1-12 so it was celebrated in a solemn manner, though some were not qualified for it according to the law, and for whose pardon Hezekiah prayed, and it was granted, 2Ch 30:13-20, also the feast of unleavened bread was kept seven days, and a festival of seven days more was likewise observed with great joy and gladness, 2Ch 30:21-27.

messengers to them, not only to the subjects of his own kingdom, Judah, but to all the Israelites that dwelt in it, who were come thither for the sake of religion, and the worship of God:

\\and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh\\; which are put for all the ten tribes, as appears from 2Ch 30:10,11 and are distinguished from Israel in the preceding clause:

\\that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem\\; not that he laid his commands upon them to come, they not being his subjects, namely, those of the ten tribes; but he hereby admonished them of their duty, and gave them a kind invitation, signifying the doors of the temple were open for them, and they were welcome to come thither:

\\to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel\\; to the glory of his name, who was the common Lord of them all, and whose command it was to keep the passover, and that at Jerusalem, and nowhere else, see De 16:1-6. 19787-950128-1141-2Ch30.2