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2 Chronicles 30:2

2 Chronicles 30:2 is verse 2 of 2 Chronicles chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

See Numbers 9:9–12.

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King James Version

For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

World English Bible

For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

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2 Chronicles 30:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

3 since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.

4 This proposal pleased the king and the whole assembly.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Chronicles 13:1

Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

1 Chronicles 13:2

And he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our brothers in all the land of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, so that they may join us.

1 Chronicles 13:3

Then let us bring back the ark of our God, for we did not inquire of Him in the days of Saul.”

Proverbs 11:14

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Proverbs 15:22

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

Numbers 9:10

“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

Numbers 9:11

Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

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