2 Chronicles 31:2

_AND HEZEKIAH APPOINTED THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES AFTER THEIR COURSES, EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS SERVICE, THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES FOR BURNT OFFERINGS AND FOR PEACE OFFERINGS, TO MINISTER, AND TO GIVE THANKS, AND TO PRAISE IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD._ Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests ... The king now turned his attention to provide for the orderly performance of the temple worship-arranging the priests and Levites in their courses, assigning to each one his proper place and functions-and issuing edicts for the regular payment of these dues from which the revenues of the sanctuary were derived. IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD, х_ BªSHA`AREEY_ (H8179) _ MACHªNOWT_ (H4264) _ YAHWEH_ (H3069)] - in the gates of the camps of the Lord; i:e., the area enclosed

Verse 2 Chronicles 31:2. _IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD._] That is, in the temple; for this was the house, tabernacle, tent, and camp, of the Most High....

THE TENTS - literally, “the camps.” The temple is called the “camp of Yahweh” by an apt metaphor: the square enclosure, with its gates and stations, its guards and porters, its reliefs, its orderly arrangement, and the tabernacle, or tent, of the great commander in the midst, very much resembled a camp....

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 HEZEKIAH APPOINTED THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES AFTER THEIR COURSES,.... As they were fixed by David, and were in the times of Jehoshaphat, and had been since interrupted, and which Hezekiah now restored, and placed them in their regular order: EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS SERVICE, THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES FOR BURNT OFFERINGS, AND FOR PEACE OFFERINGS, TO MINISTER AND TO GIVE THANKS, AND TO PRAISE IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD; or camp of the Lord, where they were posted, and lay as an host encamped, to keep the watch of the house of the Lord; the priests, they were appointed to offer the sacrifices of every sort; the Levites to minister to them in what they needed and required of them, and others of them to be singers in time of service, and others to be porters at the gate....

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...

THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS. 1 Chronicles 24:26....

(not in 2 Kin.). Organisation of the Priests, Tithe 2. _the courses_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 24:1 ff. _the priests and Levites_ R.V. BOTH THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. _in the gates_ Cp. Deuteronomy 16:5. _the tents of the Lord_ R.V. THE CAMP OF THE LORD, i.e. (in the language of Deut.) "the place which the Lord chose," _Jerusalem_or, more exactly, the _Temple area_. Cp. 1 Chronicles 9:18, note....

TO PRAISE IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD— See 1 Chronicles 9:19....