2 Chronicles 31:17

_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....

Verse 2 Chronicles 31:17. _FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD_] Moses had ordered that the Levites should not begin their labour till they were _thirty_ years of age; but David changed this order, and obliged them to begin at _twenty_....

BOTH TO THE GENEALOGY OF THE PRIESTS ... - Some prefer: “And as for the list of the priests, it was according to the houses of their fathers, and that of the Levites was from twenty years,” etc. The writer states the nature of the lists which guided the officers who made the distributions. Three lists are enumerated one of the priests made out according to families; one of the Levites, including all above 20 years of age (see the marginal reference), and made out according to courses; and a third 2 Chronicles 31:18 of the priestly and Levitical families....

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

BOTH TO THE GENEALOGY OF THE PRIESTS BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS,.... As to the priests registered according to their families from the age before observed, a portion was given: so to the Levites, FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, IN THEIR CHARGES, BY THEIR COURSES; for though originally they were not admitted into the tabernacle till twenty five years of age, nor to officiate till thirty, but in David's time they were allowed at twenty years of age and upwards, 1 Chronicles 23:24....

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...

BY. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "according to"....

_both_to _the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers_ R.V. AND THEM THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY OF THE PRIESTS BY THEIR FATHERS" HOUSES....

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