2 Chronicles 31:16

_AND BROUGHT IN THE OFFERINGS AND THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED THINGS FAITHFULLY: OVER WHICH CONONIAH THE LEVITE WAS RULER, AND SHIMEI HIS BROTHER WAS THE NEXT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

BESIDE THEIR GENEALOGY OF MALES ... - Some translate it: “Excepting the list of males,” etc. i. e. they distributed to all the members of the priestly families, excepting to those who at the time were performing the duties of their office at Jerusalem. These persons no doubt obtained their share at the temple itself....

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

BESIDE THEIR GENEALOGY OF MALES, FROM THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARDS,.... Their office was not only to give to the priests, but to those of their males in their genealogy, who were three years old and upwards; for under that age, according to Kimchi, they were not fit to come into the temple; nor have they knowledge to keep what is put into their hands; nor fit to handle offerings, lest they should defile them; but at that age they might be taught how to hold them, and be used to it; but as for females, he says, they were not admitted at any age: EVEN UNTO EVERYONE THAT ENTERETH INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; of the said age, and in the genealogy and register of the priests: HIS DAILY PORTION FOR THEIR SERVICE IN THEIR CHARGES, ACCORDING TO THEIR COURSES; food for every day, in consideration of their service in their several wards, according to their courses in turn....

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...

ACCORDING TO. Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read "in"....

_beside their genealogy of males_ R.V. BESIDE THEM THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY OF MALES. even _unto every one that entereth_ R.V. EVEN EVERY ONE THAT ENTERED. his _daily portion_ R.V. AS THE DUTY OF EVERY DAY REQUIRED....

BESIDES THEIR GENEALOGY OF MALES— _With whom, moreover, were numbered their sons:_ and so in the 17th and 18th verses. The last clause of the 18th verse Houbigant renders thus: _Because the sacred gifts were committed to their trust._ REFLECTIONS.—1st, The gracious impression that God had made on the people's hearts ended not with the ordinance from whence they came; but they continued to make their profiting appear, 1. In the destruction of every idolatrous relick, not only in Judah, but also in Ephraim and Manasseh; out of those cities, at least, from whence the people came up to Jerusalem: and when this good work was done, they returned in peace every man to his own house. _Note;_ (1.) It is comfortable returning to our home when we carry along with us the blessing of God. (2.) They who truly cleave to God, have their hearts set against all sin, without one allowed reserve. 2. Hezek...

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