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2 Chronicles 31 Bible study: Plenty left over
The heaps grew from the third month to the seventh, and the chief priest's report was, "we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for the LORD has blessed his people" (31:10). And the verse that calls Hezekiah "faithful" (31:20) is followed by "After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came" (32:1).
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“In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.”
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“In 2 Chronicles 31, the heaps were begun in the third month and finished in the seventh month.”
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From Judah to Ephraim and Manasseh
The chapter opens straight after the Passover of chapter 30. "Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah" (31:1). They "broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all" (31:1). The verse reaches past Judah and Benjamin. Hezekiah had written "letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh" (30:1), his couriers had gone "through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh" with his letters (30:10), and "many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun" had eaten the Passover in Jerusalem (30:18). The work reached their land too. Then "all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities" (31:1).
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- So they could give themselves to the law
- Heaps, and a blessing both ways
- Faithfully, to the great as well as to the small
- Left over, twice before
- Good, right, and faithful
- Filled, with some left over
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- 12 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
דָּרַשׁdarashsay da-RASH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "resort to, seek", and among its uses, "inquire, investigate (a matter)" and "seek deity in prayer and worship". It comes twice in this chapter. First, "Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps" (31:9): questioned is this verb. Then, at the end, "to seek his God, he did it with all his heart" (31:21). The Hebrew of 2 Chronicles has it 30 times; in the chapter before, Hezekiah prayed for everyone "who sets his heart to seek God" (30:19).
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2 Chronicles 31 Bible study questions
- 1Hezekiah and the princes saw the heaps and "blessed the LORD and his people Israel" (31:8). Whose faithfulness have you seen lately, and have you thanked God for them, and told them?
- 2The portions went "to the great as well as to the small" (31:15), down to the little ones (31:18). Who in your group or home is easy to overlook, and what would it look like to include them this week?
- 3"In every work that he began… he did it with all his heart" (31:21). What have you started that you're doing with only half your heart, and what would it take to give it your whole heart?
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