2 Chronicles 30:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

Prepareth

Though he be not

General references

Isaiah 17:7

Zechariah 3:3

Bible References

Prepareth

Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord."

However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."

O Lord God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.

Now Ezra had dedicated himself to the study of the law of the Lord, to its observance, and to teaching its statutes and judgments in Israel.

"As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

Though he be not

Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.

"'Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

"Tell Aaron, 'No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

Say to them, 'Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the Lord while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the Lord.

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

General references

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.