2 Chronicles 30:8

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Summary

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

Be ye not stiffnecked

Yield yourselves

Enter into

Psalm 68:24

Psalm 73:17

Serve

Revelation 7:15

The fierceness

Bible References

Be ye not stiffnecked

And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.

Yield yourselves

And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

And they gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.

Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.

And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

Enter into

We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place.

Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

Serve

Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.

The fierceness

And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.