2 Chronicles 33:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Remove. — Kings has a less common expression, “cause to wander.”

From out of (upon) the land (ground) which I have appointed. — Kings, with which the versions agree, has the certainly original “from the ground which I gave.”

So that.If only.

And the statutes and the ordinances. — An explanatory addition. Kings has, “And according to all the Torah that Moses my servant commanded them.”

By the hand. — By the ministry or instrumentality. The phrase is a characteristic interpretation of what we read in 2 Kings 21:8; for it carefully notes that the authority of the Lawgiver was not primary but derived.

2 Chronicles 33:8

8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.