2 Chronicles 29:19

_MOREOVER ALL THE VESSELS, WHICH KING AHAZ IN HIS REIGN DID CAST AWAY IN HIS TRANSGRESSION, HAVE WE PREPARED AND SANCTIFIED, AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE LORD._ Did cast away, [Septuagint, ha emianen] - which he had profaned or defiled....

1-19 When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not offered up, for that was signified by the burning incense. Neglect of God's worship was the cause of the calamities they had lain under. The Lord alone can prepare the heart of man for vital godliness: when much good is done in a little time, the glory must be ascribed to him; and all who love him or the souls of men, will rejoice therein. Let those that do good work, learn to do it well....

Verse 2 Chronicles 29:19. _ALL THE VESSELS, WHICH KING AHAZ_] The _Targum_ says, "All the vessels which King Ahaz had polluted and rendered abominable by strange idols, when he reigned in his transgression against the WORD of the Lord, we have collected and hidden; and others have we prepared to replace them; and they are now before the Lord....

EXPOSITION The important reign of Hezekiah extends over this and the following three chapters, counting in all ninety-seven verses. The parallel, for the contents of the first three of these chapters, with their sixty-four verses, is limited to the small number of _six_ verses (2 Kings 18:1), which in its turn is very much fuller (2 Kings 18:7.) in the subject of our 2 Chronicles 32:1. The reason of this so various disposition of matter is by no means wrapt in mystery, our writer's main object being clearly best subserved in exhibiting the moral and religious aspects of the inner history of Judah, as distinguished from its foreign politics—so, for brevity's sake, to denominate them. T

MOREOVER, ALL THE VESSELS WHICH KING AHAZ IN HIS REIGN DID CAST AWAY IN HIS TRANSGRESSION,.... Not that he threw them away, being valuable, as made of gold and silver; but, as Kimchi interprets it, he removed them, and converted them to idolatrous uses; or, as the Targum, he defiled or profaned them, and made them abominable by strange idols: HAVE WE PREPARED AND SANCTIFIED, AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE LORD; they had cleaned them, and fitted them for service, and had put them where they were ready for use; though the Targum is, "we have laid them aside, and hid them, and prepared others in their room,'' as unfit for divine service; and which is the sense of other Jewish writers o. o T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 54. 2....

6. REFORMATION UNDER HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 29 Hezekiah and the Beginning of the Revival _ 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 29:1)_ 2. The purification of the temple (2 Chronicles 29:3) 3. The restored worship (2 Chronicles 29:20) 4. The great offerings (2 Chronicles 29:31) Compare Chapter s 29-32 with 2 Kings 18-20 and the annotations given there. The reformation which took place under the reign of the godly son of ungodly Ahaz was a thorough and remarkable one. He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all his father David had don

AHAZ... CAST AWAY. Compare 2 Kings 16:14; 2 Kings 16:17. TRANSGRESSION. defection. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44....

_cast away_ According to 2 Chronicles 28:24, "cut in pieces"; cp. 2 Kings 16:17. The reference is probably to the "bases" and the "sea." _in his transgression_ R.V. WHEN HE TRESPASSED. _have we prepared_ Render, HAVE WE SET UP. Ahaz had taken away the supports both of the laver and of the sea (2 Kings 16:17)....

14. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (29-32) TEXT 2 Chronicles 29:1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah 2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. 3. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them. 4. And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 5. and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 6. For our fathers have trespassed, and done that

29:19 away (c-12) Or 'profaned.' transgression (d-15) Or 'unfaithfulness.'...