2 Chronicles 30:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear allegiance in the name of God. Instead, he stiffened his resolve, and hardened his heart, and would not return to the LORD God of Israel.

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

Therefore, circumcise your heart and stop being stubborn.

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

Yield yourselves

All of the officials, all of the valiant soldiers, and all of King David's sons submitted to King Solomon's control,

Pleading guilty, they promised to divorce their wives. Then they offered a ram from their flocks for their offense.

Envoys will come from Egypt. Let the Ethiopians stretch out their hands to God.

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

Enter into

So I have looked for you in the sanctuary, to behold your power and glory.

They have observed your processions, God, the processions of my God, my king, in the sanctuary.

until I entered the sanctuaries of God. Then I understood their destiny.

Which he hath

For the LORD has chosen Zion, desiring it as his dwelling place.

Serve

Fear the LORD your God, serve him, and make your oaths in his name.

If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Then Jesus told him, "Go away, Satan! Because it is written, "You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"

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

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.

Then he told me, "These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. That is why: "They are in front of the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

The fierceness

So listen to me! Return the captives whom you've captured from your brothers, because the anger of the LORD is burning hot against you!"

I'm intending to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel so his burning anger may turn away from us.

Even so, the LORD did not turn away from his fierce and great anger that burned against Judah because of everything with which Manasseh had provoked him.

He inflicted his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, sending destroying angels among them.