KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Chronicles 30:2–4
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2 Chronicles 30:2
2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2For the king had taken counsell, and his Princes, and all the congregation in Ierusalem, to keepe the Passeouer in the second *moneth.
- Num. 19.11.
2 Chronicles 30:3
3For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
3For they could not keepe it at that time, because the Priests had not sanctified themselues sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselues together to Ierusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:4
4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
4And the thing †pleased the king, and all the Congregation.
- Heb. was right in the eyes of the King.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Chronicles 30:2
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
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Received, seized, carried, accepted, captured, chosen, or laid hold of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Rulers, chiefs, or persons of high rank and authority.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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congregation
An assembled body or community of people, especially the gathered people of Israel or worshippers before God.
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To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
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2 Chronicles 30:3
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
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A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
For the reason that; since.
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Persons who officiate in sacred service, especially by offering sacrifices or ministering in worship; KJV contexts distinguish Mosaic priests, priests of other gods, chief priests, and persons made priests unto God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (headword: priest)
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sufficiently
A sufficient degree; enough; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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2 Chronicles 30:4
Gratified; affected with agreeable sensations or emotions.
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A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
congregation
An assembled body or community of people, especially the gathered people of Israel or worshippers before God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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Open the full verse study1AND David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
2And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
3And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.
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Open the full verse study13¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
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Open the full verse study15Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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Open the full verse study14Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.
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Open the full verse study22Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
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Open the full verse study18¶ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
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Open the full verse study6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
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Open the full verse study17Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study4And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
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