2 Chronicles 30:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Be ye not stiffnecked.Harden ye not your neck like your fathers. 2 Kings 17:14, “and they hardened their neck like their fathers’ neck.” (Jeremiah 7:26; Psalms 95:8-9.)

But yield yourselves. — Omit but, and place a stop after fathers. “Yield ye a hand to Jehovah,” i.e., submit to Him. So 1 Chronicles 29:24. The phrase also means “to make an agreement with” (Ezra 10:19; 2 Kings 10:15). (Comp. Isaiah 2:6.)

Enter into his sanctuary ... serve the Lord. — Comp. Psalms 100:1; Psalms 100:4.

Which he hath sanctified for over.2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 7:20.

That the fierceness (heat) ... from you.2 Chronicles 29:10. Such resemblances prove the ideal character of these addresses.

2 Chronicles 30:8

8 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.