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 63:2

Psalm 68:24

Psalm 73:17

Which he hath

Psalm 132:13

Serve

Revelation 7:15

The fierceness

Bible References

Be ye not stiffnecked

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

Yield yourselves

All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

Enter into

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary--

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.

Which he hath

For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:

Serve

It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'"

If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

"Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

The fierceness

Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you."

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.