2 Cronache 30:5

5 e stabilirono di proclamare un bando per tutto Israele, da Beer-Sceba fino a Dan, perché la gente venisse a Gerusalemme a celebrar la Pasqua in onore dell’Eterno, dell’Iddio d’Israele; poiché per l’addietro essa non era stata celebrata in modo generale, secondo ch’è prescritto.

2 Cronache 30:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 30:5

So they established a decree, to make proclamation throughout
all Israel
Passed a vote, that heralds should be appointed and sent to proclaim it throughout the land, that all might know it, and none plead ignorance:

from Beersheba even to Dan;
the one being the southern and the other the northern boundary of the whole land of Israel:

that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel
at Jerusalem:
the only proper place where it was to be kept:

for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written;
as prescribed in the law those of the ten tribes had not observed it from the time of the schism of Jeroboam, and many in the kingdom of Judah had neglected it, at least had not kept it as the law required; for the phrase which we render "of a long time" rather respects a multitude of persons than length of time, who had been very deficient in their observance of this ordinance; the Targum is, that

``many had not done it in its time, in Nisan,''

and suggests that it was kept twice this year, first in Nisan by a few, and now again in the second month Ijar, and which is the sense of some Talmudic writers ^F16, but has no foundation in the text.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 12. 2.

2 Cronache 30:5 In-Context

3 giacché non la potevan celebrare al tempo debito, perché i sacerdoti non s’erano santificati in numero sufficiente, e il popolo non s’era radunato in Gerusalemme.

4 La cosa piacque al re e a tutta la raunanza;

5 e stabilirono di proclamare un bando per tutto Israele, da Beer-Sceba fino a Dan, perché la gente venisse a Gerusalemme a celebrar la Pasqua in onore dell’Eterno, dell’Iddio d’Israele; poiché per l’addietro essa non era stata celebrata in modo generale, secondo ch’è prescritto.

6 I corrieri dunque andarono con le lettere del re e dei suoi capi per tutto Israele e Giuda; e, conformemente all’ordine del re, dissero: "Figliuoli d’Israele, tornate all’Eterno, all’Iddio d’Abrahamo, d’Isacco e d’Israele, ond’egli torni al residuo che di voi è scampato dalle mani dei re d’Assiria.

7 E non siate come i vostri padri e come i vostri fratelli, che sono stati infedeli all’Eterno, all’Iddio dei loro padri, in guisa ch’ei li ha dati in preda alla desolazione, come voi vedete.