2 Chronicles 30:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Now be not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that His fierce anger may turn away from you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Common English Bible

⁸ So don’t be stubborn like your ancestors. Surrender to the LORD! Come to God’s sanctuary, which he has made holy forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he won’t be angry with you any longer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Do not choose to harden your necks, as your fathers did. Surrender to the hands of the Lord. And go to his Sanctuary, which he has sanctified unto eternity. Serve the Lord, the God of your fathers, and the fury of his wrath will be turned away from you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: Yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever. Serve the Lord the God of your fathers; and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you.

2 Chronicles 30:8 Cross References

2 Kings 23:26

Still the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath by which his anger was kindled against Judah because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

1 Chronicles 29:24

All the leaders and the mighty warriors and also all the sons of King David pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

2 Chronicles 28:11

Now hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken from your kindred, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”

2 Chronicles 28:13

and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring on us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 36:13

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

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that my name might be there, and I chose no one as ruler over my people Israel,

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Ezra 10:14

Let our officials represent the whole assembly, and let all in our towns who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every town, until the fierce wrath of our God on this account is averted from us.”

Ezra 10:19

They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Psalm 63:2

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Psalm 68:24

Your solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—

Psalm 68:31

Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Cush hasten to stretch out its hands to God.

Psalm 73:17

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.

Psalm 78:49

He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.

Jeremiah 50:15

Raise a shout against her from all sides, “She has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down.” For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ ”

John 12:26

Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.

Romans 10:21

But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The Lord your God you shall fear, him you shall serve, and by his name alone you shall swear.

Deuteronomy 6:17

You must diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his decrees and his statutes that he has commanded you.

Joshua 24:15

Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region 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 the Lord.”

Revelation 7:15

For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.