2 Chronicles 30 — All Israel is invited to the renewed Passover — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 30 — All Israel is invited to the renewed Passover
The invitation and the royal letter
Verse 30:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:1] Hezekiah sent throughout Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to YHWH's house in Jerusalem to keep Passover for YHWH, the God of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:1] Hezekiah sent throughout Israel and Judah and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasse, inviting them to come to the Lord's house in Jerusalem to keep the phasek for the Lord, the God of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek borrows the festival-name as phasek, corresponding to Hebrew pesach, Passover; the invitation's scope agrees.
Verse 30:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:2] The king, his princes, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem took counsel to keep Passover in the second month.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:2] The king, the rulers, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem took counsel to keep the phasek in the second month.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both agree on the second month; Hebrew calls the princes his, while Greek has the rulers.
Verse 30:3 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:3] They could not keep it at the earlier time, because too few priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:3] They could not keep it at that time, because enough priests had not purified themselves and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give insufficiently prepared priests and an unassembled people as reasons for the delay.
Verse 30:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:4] The matter was right in the eyes of the king and the whole assembly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:4] The proposal pleased the king and the assembly.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly includes the whole assembly; both approve the proposal.
Verse 30:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:5] They established a decree to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, to come and keep Passover for YHWH, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers as written.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:5] They established a decree for a proclamation to pass throughout Israel, from Beersabee to Dan, inviting people to come and keep the phasek for the Lord, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem, because a multitude had not observed it according to the writing.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew's not in abundance expression is read numerically here, though a duration sense is possible; Greek explicitly makes a multitude the subject of nonobservance.
Verse 30:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:6] The couriers went with letters from the king and his princes throughout Israel and Judah, according to the king's command: “Sons of Israel, return to YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to the surviving remnant left to you from the hand of Assyria's kings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:6] The runners went with letters from the king and the rulers throughout Israel and Judah, according to the king's ordinance: “Sons of Israel, return to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will bring back the survivors left from the hand of Assour's king.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names YHWH and promises His return to the remnant; Greek has God without Lord and promises to bring the survivors back. Hebrew's plural Assyrian kings becomes one king.
Verse 30:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:7] Do not be like your fathers and your brothers who acted unfaithfully against YHWH, the God of their fathers, so that He gave them over to desolation, as you see.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:7] Do not become like your fathers and your brothers who departed from the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that He delivered them to devastation, as you see.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both use the preceding generation's devastation as a warning against departure from God.
Verse 30:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:8] Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers. Give your hand to YHWH and enter His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve YHWH your God, so that His burning anger may turn from you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:8] Now do not harden your necks. Give glory to the Lord God and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever. Serve the Lord your God, and He will turn furious wrath away from you.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew commands giving a hand in submission; Greek commands giving glory and adds God there. Greek lacks like your fathers and makes the Lord the agent turning wrath away.
Verse 30:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:9] For when you return to YHWH, your brothers and sons will find compassion before their captors and return to this land. YHWH your God is gracious and compassionate; He will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:9] For when you return to the Lord, your brothers and children will find compassion before all who took them captive, and He will bring them back to this land. The Lord our God is merciful and compassionate; He will not turn His face from us if we return to Him.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly makes God restore the captives, adds all captors, and shifts in its final appeal from your and you to our, us, and we.
The couriers’ reception
Verse 30:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:10] The couriers passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people laughed at them and mocked them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:10] The runners passed from city to city in the hill country of Ephraim and Manasse, as far as Zaboulon, but people treated them with laughter and mockery.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has land, Greek hill country. Both describe rejection of the messengers.
Verse 30:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:11] Nevertheless, some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:11] Nevertheless, men from Aser, Manasse, and Zaboulon felt shame and came to Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes self-humbling, Greek a response of shame or respect. Both identify the same responding groups.
Verse 30:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:12] In Judah also, God's hand gave them one heart to carry out the king's and the princes' command according to YHWH's word.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:12] In Judah the Lord's hand gave them one heart to come and carry out the king's and the rulers' ordinance according to the Lord's word.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek uses Lord for the first Hebrew God and adds to come before carrying out the instruction.
The Passover and the prayer for pardon
Verse 30:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:13] A great people gathered in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:13] A great people gathered in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give the same gathering, festival, month, and emphatic size.
Verse 30:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:14] They rose and removed the altars in Jerusalem. They removed all the incense installations and threw them into the Kidron Wadi.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:14] They rose and demolished the altars in Jerusalem. They pulled down everything on which they had burned incense to false gods and threw it into the Kedron torrent.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek makes the installations' service to false gods explicit and describes demolition; Hebrew describes removing the altars and incense equipment.
Verse 30:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:15] They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, consecrated themselves, and brought burnt offerings to YHWH's house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:15] They sacrificed the phasek on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites felt shame, purified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The festival date, shame, preparation, and offerings correspond.
Verse 30:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:16] They stood at their assigned stations, according to their rule, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests dashed the blood received from the Levites' hands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:16] They stood at their stations according to their rule, according to the command of Moses the man of God. The priests received the blood from the Levites' hands.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes the priests' blood-dashing; Greek describes only their reception of it. Law becomes command.
Verse 30:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:17] Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were responsible for slaughtering the Passovers for everyone unclean, to consecrate them to YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:17] Because a multitude in the assembly had not been purified, the Levites were responsible for sacrificing the phasek for everyone unable to purify himself for the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew identifies people who are unclean and adds the purpose of consecration; Greek identifies inability to purify oneself.
Verse 30:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:18] Many of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet ate the Passover contrary to what was written. Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May good YHWH grant atonement for
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:18] Most of the people from Ephraim, Manasse, Issachar, and Zaboulon had not purified themselves, yet ate the phasek contrary to the writing. Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord be propitious toward
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew repeats the people's multitude; Greek has most. Hebrew kipper and Greek exilaskomai occur in intercessory prayer; their ritual language is retained without settling its wider theological interpretation. Both sentences continue in verse nineteen.
Verse 30:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:19] everyone who has set his whole heart to seek God, YHWH, the God of his fathers, though not according to the holy place's purity.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:19] every heart directed to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, though not according to the purity of the holy places.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew speaks of a person preparing his whole heart and includes both God and YHWH; Greek makes every directed heart the expression's focus and has Lord God. The final impurity qualification is compressed in both.
Verse 30:20 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:20] YHWH heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:20] The Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both directly report the prayer's reception and the people's healing.
The extended feast and blessing
Verse 30:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:21] The sons of Israel present in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. Day after day the Levites and priests praised YHWH with instruments of might for YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:21] The sons of Israel present in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, hymning the Lord day after day, with the priests and Levites playing instruments for the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew qualifies the instruments by might or loud strength; Greek has instruments without that qualification and reverses the priests and Levites.
Verse 30:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:22] Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites who showed good understanding in YHWH's service. They ate the festival meal for the seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and making acknowledgment to YHWH, the God of their fathers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:22] Hezekiah spoke to every heart of the Levites and of those who showed good understanding toward the Lord. They completed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days, sacrificing salvation offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes eating the festival; Greek describes completing the named Feast of Unleavened Bread. Greek coordinates the Levites and those with understanding, while Hebrew directly qualifies the Levites.
Verse 30:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:23] The whole assembly agreed to keep another seven days, and they kept seven days with joy.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:23] The assembly together agreed to keep another seven days, and they kept seven days with rejoicing.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both extend the observance by another seven days.
Verse 30:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:24] Hezekiah king of Judah contributed to the assembly one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. The princes contributed to the assembly one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep, and many priests consecrated themselves.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:24] Hezekiah contributed to Judah, to the assembly, one thousand calves and seven thousand sheep. The rulers contributed to the people one thousand calves and ten thousand sheep, and the priests' holy things were abundant.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The animal quantities agree. Hebrew ends with many priests consecrating themselves; Greek instead gives a noun phrase about abundant priestly holy things. Greek has Judah as recipient rather than part of the king's title.
Verse 30:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:25] The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests, Levites, the whole assembly coming from Israel, the resident foreigners coming from Israel's land, and those living in Judah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:25] The whole assembly rejoiced, with the priests, Levites, the whole assembly of Judah, those present from Israel, the resident foreigners who came from Israel's land, and those living in Judah.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek rearranges and expands the assembly descriptions. Resident foreigners renders the social designation here without assuming later formal conversion requirements.
Verse 30:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:26] There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel, there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:26] There was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel, there had been no such festival in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly identifies the unprecedented event as a festival; Hebrew simply says nothing like this.
Verse 30:27 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 30:27] The Levitical priests rose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling, to heaven.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 30:27] The Levitical priests rose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both have priests, the Levites without a coordinating and and describe prayer reaching the divine heavenly dwelling.