2 Chronicles 30:8

The people are urged not to be stubborn but to yield to the Lord, enter His sanctuary, and serve Him so His anger may turn away. It matters because submission to God is the path away from wrath.

Cross-references · 25

• 2 Chr 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
• Exod 32:9Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
• Deut 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
• 2 Kgs 23:26Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
• 1 Chr 29:24All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
• 2 Chr 28:11Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• Deut 6:17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
• John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
• Ps 78:49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
• Rom 6:13–19Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Ps 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
• Ps 63:2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
• Rom 10:21But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
• Ezra 10:19They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
• Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• Col 3:22–24Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
• Rev 7:15Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
• 2 Chr 36:13He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• Ps 68:24They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
• Matt 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”
• Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
• 2 Chr 28:13and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our gulit is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”
• Deut 6:13You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

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