2 Cronache 30:18

18 Poiché una gran parte del popolo, molti d’Efraim, di Manasse, d’Issacar e di Zabulon non s’erano purificati, e mangiarono la Pasqua, senza conformarsi a quello ch’è scritto. Ma Ezechia pregò per loro, dicendo:

2 Cronache 30:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 30:18

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and
Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun
All which were of the ten tribes, where idolatry had prevailed for a long time:

had not cleansed themselves;
from impurity contracted by idolatry and other things:

yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written;
because they ate it in their uncleanness, which was not according to the law, that required that such should be clean that ate of any holy things, see ( John 18:28 ) but since these people came a great way off, and there was no deferring it to another month, the king chose rather they should be admitted to eat of it, though in their uncleanness:

but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, the good Lord pardon everyone;
God, who is gracious and merciful, and of his goodness, grace, and mercy, forgive such who, though ceremonially unclean, ate of the passover, and especially since they were sincere and cordial in their services; and therefore he hoped that this breach of the ceremonial law would not be laid to their charge. Goodness is such a well known attribute of God, that the very Heathens ascribe it to their deities; hence we read of a temple of the "good god", the gods being the givers of good things to men; Jupiter, or Jove, the supreme god, is supposed to be meant ^F19.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Pausan. Arcadica, sive, l. 8. p. 513. Vid. Ciceronem de Nat. Deor. l. 3. prope finem.

2 Cronache 30:18 In-Context

16 e occuparono il posto assegnato loro dalla legge di Mosè, uomo di Dio. I sacerdoti facevano l’aspersione del sangue, che ricevevano dalle mani de’ Leviti.

17 Siccome ve n’erano molti, nella raunanza, che non s’erano santificati, i Leviti aveano l’incarico d’immolare gli agnelli pasquali, consacrandoli all’Eterno, per tutti quelli che non eran puri.

18 Poiché una gran parte del popolo, molti d’Efraim, di Manasse, d’Issacar e di Zabulon non s’erano purificati, e mangiarono la Pasqua, senza conformarsi a quello ch’è scritto. Ma Ezechia pregò per loro, dicendo:

19 "L’Eterno, che è buono, perdoni a chiunque ha disposto il proprio cuore alla ricerca di Dio, dell’Eterno, ch’è l’Iddio de’ suoi padri, anche senz’avere la purificazione richiesta dal santuario".

20 E l’Eterno esaudì Ezechia, e perdonò al popolo.