2 Chronicles 30:20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
The setting
Jerusalem, 715 BC. After Hezekiah intercedes for the unpurified worshipers, God responds with healing. The people who came 'unclean' are now made whole. Modern-day Jerusalem, Israel.
The emotion here: amazed at God's gracious response to intercession
The original word
rapha (רָפָא) — to heal completely, restore to wholeness, mend what was broken
Why it matters
This healing likely prevented a plague that typically struck those who ate Passover while ritually unclean
Read with care
What most readers miss in 2 Chronicles 30:20
The healing came AFTER they had already eaten the Passover — God's grace was retroactive
Common misconceptionPeople think this is about physical healing only. It's actually about God healing the spiritual breach caused by ritual impurity — making them right with Him.
The thread continues
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Bible Genome reading
2 Chronicles 30:20 — Bible Genome reading
Emotional genome
2 Chronicles 30:20 comes from the book of 2 Chronicles, written during the United Kingdom period. The setting is the Temple. These words are attributed to Narrator. The dominant emotion in this verse is grateful, with a comfort power of 90% and a tone that is tender. It belongs to the narrative genre of biblical literature. Key themes include divine mercy, healing, answered prayer. Notable phrases: Yahweh listened; healed the people.
Emotionally similar
Verses that meet the same grateful
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
— John 3:16
“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”
— 2 Timothy 4:7
“It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'”
— Acts 2:21
“for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”
— Ephesians 2:8
“So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land o…”
— Genesis 45:8
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