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

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

And Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and, indeed, they [are] a stiff-necked people.

So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and {do not be stubborn}.

But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."

Yield yourselves

And all the officials and mighty warriors, and also all the sons of King David, {pledged 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.

Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

Enter into

Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary, beholding your strength and glory.

They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive [in victory].

until I went into the sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate.

Which he hath

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Serve

"You shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear.

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."

Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan, for it is written, 'You shall 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 be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne {will shelter} them.

The fierceness

So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh [is] against you."

Now {it is in my heart} to {make} a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him.

However, Yahweh did not turn from the fierceness of his great anger which was kindled against Judah because of all of the provocations [with] which Manasseh had provoked him.

He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying} angels.