THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
However, the author refers to the individual who refrains from making a sin offering and instead presents a gift to God.
2 Chronicles 17:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.
וְעַל־יָדוֹ֙ עֲמַסְיָ֣ה בֶן־זִכְרִ֔י הַמִּתְנַדֵּ֖ב לַיהוָ֑ה וְעִמּ֛וֹ מָאתַ֥יִם אֶ֖לֶף גִּבּ֥וֹר חָֽיִל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 5:9My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.
- 1 Chr 29:9And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.
- Judg 5:2O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger, bless the Lord.
- 1 Chr 29:17I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.
- 2 Cor 8:3For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing:
- 2 Cor 8:5And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God;
- 1 Chr 29:14Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.
- Ps 110 (109):3