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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Except in
1 Samuel 29:4
4
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men? (1 Samuel 29:4)
, and
2 Chronicles 29:24
24
And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. (2 Chronicles 29:24)
, the
Hebrew
word is
kaphar
, which is more than sixty
times
translated “to make an
atonement
;” and this rendering suits sufficiently well in the places where “reconciliation” is read in the AV (
Lev. 6:30
30
And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire. (Leviticus 6:30)
;
Lev. 8:15
15
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it. (Leviticus 8:15)
;
Lev. 16:20
20
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: (Leviticus 16:20)
;
Ezek. 45:15,17,20
15
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God. (Ezekiel 45:15)
17
And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. (Ezekiel 45:17)
20
And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. (Ezekiel 45:20)
;
Dan. 9:24
24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. (Daniel 9:24)
). In the
New
Testament
the last clause of
Hebrews 2:17
17
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. (Hebrews 2:17)
should be translated “to make ‘
propitiation
’ for the sins of the people.” Elsewhere
the word
translated “reconciliation” is
καταλλαγἠ
, and kindred words, signifying “a thorough change.”
By the
death
of
the
Lord
Jesus
on the
cross
,
God
annulled in
grace
the distance which
sin
had brought in between Himself and
man
, in order that all things might, through Christ, be presented agreeably to Himself. Believers are already reconciled, through Christ’s death, to be presented holy, unblameable, and unreproveable (a
new
creation
). God was in Christ, when Christ was on
earth
, reconciling
the world
unto Himself, not imputing unto them their trespasses; but now that the love of God has been fully revealed in the cross, the
testimony
has gone out worldwide, beseeching men to be reconciled to God (
2 Cor. 5:19-20
19
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:19‑20)
). The end is that God may have His pleasure in man.
Christ also abolished the system of the
law
that
Jew
and Gentile might be reconciled together unto God, the two being formed in Christ into one
new man
(
Eph. 2:15-16
15
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Ephesians 2:15‑16)
). Reconciliation will extend in result to all things in
heaven
and on earth (
Col. 1:20
20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20)
); not to things under the earth (the lost), though these will have to confess that “Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory
of God the
Father
” (
Phil. 2:10-11
10
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:10‑11)
).
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Number:
2644
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Greek:
καταλλάσσω
Transliteration:
katallasso
Phonic:
kat-al-las’-so
Meaning:
from
2596
and
236
; to change mutually, i.e. (figuratively) to compound a difference
KJV Usage:
reconcile
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