2 Chronicles 30:11
9 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
10 And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.
Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
12 Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
13 In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
- KJV
- Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- WEB
- Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
- ASV
- Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- DARBY
- Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
- BLB
- Nevertheless, some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came in to Jerusalem.
- ÅB
- Det var bare noen få i Aser og Manasse og Sebulon som ydmyket seg og kom til Jerusalem.
- OTB
- Imidlertid ydmyket noen menn fra Asjer, Manasse og Sebulon seg og kom til Jerusalem.
- B1930
- Det var bare nogen få i Aser og Manasse og Sebulon som ydmyket sig og kom til Jerusalem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 30:21
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.
Read in context2 Chronicles 30:18
A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone
Read in context2 Chronicles 30:25
Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.
Read in context2 Chronicles 12:6–7
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:23
but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
Read in contextLuke 18:14
I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:27
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Read in contextActs 17:34
But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.
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