2 Chronicles 30:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They could not celebrate it at the proper time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves, and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For they could{H3201} not keep{H6213} it at that time,{H6256} because the priests{H3548} had not sanctified{H6942} themselves in sufficient{H4078} number, neither had the people{H5971} gathered themselves together{H622} to Jerusalem.{H3389}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For they could{H3201}{(H8804)} not keep{H6213}{(H8800)} it at that time{H6256}, because the priests{H3548} had not sanctified{H6942}{(H8694)} themselves sufficiently{H4078}{(H8676)}{H1767}, neither had the people{H5971} gathered themselves together{H622}{(H8738)} to Jerusalem{H3389}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    for at that tyme they coulde not kepe it, because the prestes were not sanctified ynough, and the people were not yet come together vnto Ierusalem.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For they could not keepe it at this time, because there were not Priests enow sanctified, neither was the people gathered to Ierusalem.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For they coulde not kepe it at that time, because the priestes were not sanctified sufficiently, neither was the people gathered together to Hierusalem.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for they have not been able to make it at that time, for the priests have not sanctified themselves sufficiently, and the people have not been gathered to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They were unable to observe it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • Exod 12:6 : 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
  • Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
  • 2 Chr 29:17 : 17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 30:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

    2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

  • 2 Chr 30:13-19
    7 verses
    78%

    13 And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

    14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

    15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

    16 And they stood in their place after their custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.

    17 For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passovers for everyone that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

    18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon everyone

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

  • 2 Chr 30:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

    5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it in such a way for a long time as it was written.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
    75%

    34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings; therefore, their brethren the Levites helped them until the work was done, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • Ezra 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 And the children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

  • 2 Chr 35:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

    17 And the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

    18 There had been no Passover like that kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, this Passover was kept.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

    22 Surely there was not held such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah.

    23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 15:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 For because you did not do it at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for we did not seek Him after the due order.

    14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

  • Ezra 3:1
    71%

    1 And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    71%

    11 And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not wait by order:

  • Neh 12:30
    71%

    30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15 And they gathered their brethren, sanctified themselves, and came according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

    16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

    17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
    70%

    14 And afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy in offering burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6
    70%

    6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

  • Num 9:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover that day: and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;

    7 And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 24:5
    69%

    5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you hasten the matter. However, the Levites did not hasten it.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    69%

    9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
    69%

    2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    69%

    14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 35:1
    69%

    1 Moreover, Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

  • Ezra 2:62-63
    2 verses
    69%

    62 These sought their record among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore, as polluted, they were put from the priesthood.

    63 And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
    69%

    10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.

  • 2 Chr 5:3
    69%

    3 Therefore, all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast in the seventh month.

  • 2 Chr 30:24
    68%

    24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

  • Neh 7:64-65
    2 verses
    68%

    64 These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore they were, as polluted, expelled from the priesthood.

    65 And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

  • Num 9:13
    68%

    13 But the man who is clean and not on a journey and refrains from keeping the Passover, that same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4 Moreover, he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    68%

    2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.