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2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 30
Hezekiah proclaimeth a solemn passover for Judah and Israel, 2Ch_30:1-12. They, having destroyed the altars of idolatry, keep the feast fourteen days, 2Ch_30:13-26. The priests and Levites bless the people, 2Ch_30:27.
To all Israel; whereby he understands all the persons of the ten tribes, who were now settled in his kingdom; as appears by their contradistinction to Ephraim and Manasseh here following. To Ephraim and Manasseh, i.e. to all the remainders of the ten tribes, 2Ch_30:5, who ave here synecdochically expressed by the names of Ephraim and Manasseh, as elsewhere by the name of Ephraim only. But he names these two tribes, because they were nearest to his kingdom, and a great number of them had long since, and from time to time, joined themselves to the kingdom of Judah, 2Ch_15:8,9, and therefore he had most hopes of success amongst them. That they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem; admonishing them of their duty to God, and persuading them to comply with it.