2 Cronache 30:5

5 e statuirono di far passare un bando per tutto Israele, da Beerseba fino in Dan, che si venisse a celebrar la Pasqua al Signore Iddio d’Israele, in Gerusalemme; perciocchè per l’addietro non l’aveano celebrata con quella frequenza che è scritta.

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 Conciossiachè non l’avessero potuta celebrare in quel tempo; perciocchè i sacerdoti non si erano santificati in numero sufficiente, ed anche il popolo non era raunato in Gerusalemme.

4 E la cosa piacque al re, ed a tutta la raunanza;

5 e statuirono di far passare un bando per tutto Israele, da Beerseba fino in Dan, che si venisse a celebrar la Pasqua al Signore Iddio d’Israele, in Gerusalemme; perciocchè per l’addietro non l’aveano celebrata con quella frequenza che è scritta.

6 I corrieri adunque andarono, con lettere da parte del re, e de’ suoi principali ufficiali, per tutto Israele e Giuda, dicendo ancora a bocca, secondo il comandamento del re: Figliuoli d’Israele, convertitevi al Signore Iddio d’Abrahamo, d’Isacco, e d’Israele; ed egli si rivolgerà verso il rimanente di voi, che siete scampati delle mani dei re degli Assiri.

7 E non siate come i vostri padri, e come i vostri fratelli, che hanno misfatto contro al Signore Iddio de’ lor padri; laonde egli li ha messi in desolazione come voi vedete.