2 Chronicles 31:10

_AND AZARIAH THE CHIEF PRIEST OF THE HOUSE OF ZADOK ANSWERED HIM, AND SAID, SINCE THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO BRING THE OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TO EAT, AND HAVE LEFT PLENTY: FOR THE LORD HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE; AND THAT WHICH IS LEFT IS THIS GREAT STORE._ Azariah ... answered ... we have had enough. This is probably the person mentioned, 2 Chronicles 26:17 and his reply was to the following purport: There has been an abundant harvest, and a corresponding plenty in the incoming of first-fruits and tithes; the people have testified their gratitude to Him who has crowned the year with His goodness by their liberality toward His servants....

If this Azariah was the same as he who resisted Uzziah 2 Chronicles 26:17, he must have held his office at least 33 years. Compare 2 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 28:1. THE LORD HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE - i. e. God has made the harvest unusually abundant, and hence the great amount of tithes and first-fruits....

EXPOSITION This chapter, after its first verse (which holds an intermediate place with relation to the enthusiastic devoutness of the people recorded in the last verse of the former chapter, and what now followed of the doings of the king), tells how Hezekiah once more settles, first, the courses of the priests and Levites, and the offerings for their support (2 Chronicles 31:2); and, secondly, both the offices and officers needful for rightly attending to the business. The Book of Kings gives us no parallel to this chapter. 2 CHRONICLES 31:1 As much as the last verse of the foregoing chapter was all of the religious fervour of the occasion, this verse is all of the, practical honest work of the people and their leaders. All Israel th

AND AZARIAH THE CHIEF PRIEST OF THE HOUSE OF ZADOK ANSWERED HIM,.... Who was the high priest of the family of Eleazar, in the line of Zadok, made high priest in Solomon's time, when Abiathar was thrust out; Jarchi takes him to be the same Azariah that was in the days of Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:17, AND SAID, SINCE THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO BRING THE OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TO EAT, AND HAVE LEFT PLENTY; which were now four mouths since; and the priests and Levites, and their families, had partaken of them, and eat to satiety, and yet there was great plenty remaining: FOR THE LORD HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE: the Targum is, "the Word of the Lord has blessed them,'' given them large crops this year, and a ready willing mind to bring in what is due for the service of the temple: and

CHAPTER 31 THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL _ 1. The destruction of the false worship (2 Chronicles 31:1)_ 2. The king's appointments (2 Chronicles 31:2) All was done by Hezekiah for the orderly continuance of the service in the house of the LORD. The order of the courses of the priests, after David's arrangement, which had been abandoned during the preceding apostasy, was once more settled. What was needed for the public sacrifices of the congregation was willingly given, as well as other things, by the king and the people. “For the personal support of the ministering priests and Levites nothing more was required than the re-enactment of the ancient provision of firstfruits, tithes, and firstlings ...

2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 20:1). The Chronicler in this long section writes, from his own point of view, much that is quite unhistorical. The three main subjects treated by him here are Hezekiah's reopening of the Temple, the Passover, and the appointment of the Temple officials. In...

_Azariah the chief priest_ Not mentioned in connexion with Hezekiah's previous arrangements: he may have been only just appointed. _of the house of Zadok_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 24:1-4. There were _two_main families of priests, (1) the descendants of Eleazar the third son of Aaron, whose chief representative in David's day was Zadok (hence they are here called "the house of Zadok"), (2) the descendants of Ithamar the fourth son of Aaron, represented in David's time by Ahimelech (Saul's victim) or by Abiathar (David's _protégé_). The Chronicler prefers to name the descendants of Ithamar after Ahimelech (1 Chronicles 24:3). _the offerings_ R.V. THE OBLATIONS (so also...

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

REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's reorganisation of the Temple service....

2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 31 HEZEKIAH ORGANISES *SACRIFICES AND GIFTS – 2 CHRONICLES 31:1-21 V1 After the end of the *feast, all the *Israelites who were there went to the towns of Judah. There they broke up the stone columns that people used to *worship false gods. They cut down the images of the female god *Asherah. And they destroyed the *altars and the high places where people *worshipped false gods. They destroyed those things in all the territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had done that, the *Israelites returned home to their own towns....