2 Chronicles 34:9

_AND WHEN THEY CAME TO HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST, THEY DELIVERED THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH THE LEVITES THAT KEPT THE DOORS HAD GATHERED OF THE HAND OF MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM, AND OF ALL THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, AND OF ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN; AND THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse 2 Chronicles 34:9. _AND THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._] Instead of וישבו _vaiyashubu_, "they returned," we should read יושבי _yoshebey_, "the inhabitants;" a reading which is supported by many MSS., printed _editions_, and all the _versions_, as well as by _necessity_ and _common sense_. 2 Chronicles 19:8, where a similar mistake is rectified....

EXPOSITION This chapter, with the following, embraces the entire of the beneficent reign of Josiah, son of Amon—the son an illustrious contrast to the father. The parallel (2 Kings 22-23:30) is less full, and also, so far as chronology goes, less clear in the earlier verses. For once the writer of Kings spends his strength more largely than our compiler on the moral and religious aspects of Josiah's work, and is rather scantier in the detail of his external works for his nation, city of Jerusalem, and temple. He, however, gives very much less prominence to the matter of the celebration of the Passover. 2 CHRONICLES 34:1 Again the name of the mother is omitted. From the parallel we learn she was "Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath....

AND WHEN THEY CAME TO HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST,.... To whom they were sent to advise with about the repair of the temple: THEY DELIVERED THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD; that is, the high priest, and the Levites the doorkeepers, gave it to the king's ministers; which money was either brought to the temple voluntarily, as the free gifts of the people, for the repairs; or rather what was collected by the Levites, sent throughout the land for that purpose, or it may be both: WHICH THE LEVITES THAT KEPT THE DOORS; of the temple; and received the money as the people brought it: AND ALSO HAD GATHERED OF THE HAND OF MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM, AND OF ALL THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, AND OF ALL JUDAH, AND BENJAMIN; they went throughout all the land of Israel and Judah, and collected money for the above purpose: AND THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM; with it, which the high priest took the sum o...

8. REFORMATION UNDER JOSIAH CHAPTER 34 The Reign of Josiah and the Reformation _ 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 34:1)_ 2. The beginning of the reformation (2 Chronicles 34:3) 3. The house of the LORD repaired (2 Chronicles 34:8) 4. The law of Moses found and read (2 Chronicles 34:14) 5. Hulda, the prophetess (2 Chronicles 34:22) 6. The law read and the covenant ...

2 Chronicles 34:1 to 2 Chronicles 35:27. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH. See notes on 2 Kings 22, 2 Kings 23:1, which form the basis of the Chronicler's account; but he has made many alterations in accordance with his general tendencies. One important difference between the two accounts is that, according to the Chronicler, Josiah's Reformation takes place before the finding of the book of the Law, an obviously illogical sequence; but the Chronicler desires to emphasize Josiah's piety even in his tender years. The description of the celebration of the Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1) is far fuller than that given in...

_And when they came … they delivered_ R.V. AND THEY CAME … AND DELIVERED. The matter is somewhat differently stated in 2 Kin. according to which they are sent to Hilkiah with a message to him to "sum" i.e. to reckon the total of the money collected in the Temple. _the Levites that kept the doors_ R.V. THE LEVITES, THE KEEPERS OF THE DOOR. In 2 Kings 12:9 the keepers of the doors are called _priests_; cp. _ib._2 Kings 25:18. _of the hand of Manasseh_etc.] In 2 Kin. simply "of the people." _and they returned_to _Jerusalem_ R.V. AND OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. The A.V. (cp. for the meaning of this rendering, 2 Chronicles 24:5) follows one readin

LESSON TWENTY-FOUR 34-36 JOSIAH'S REFORMATION THE LAST DAYS OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. THE DECREE OF CYRUS 17. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH (Chapter 34-35) INTRODUCTION Josiah and Hilkiah led Judah in a wonderful revival of faith in God. The passover was a time of great rejoicing. Josiah's untimely death shortened Judah's time as a kingdom. Babylon came. Jerusalem was ruined. Captivity followed. At the end of the captivity Cyrus released the Jews for their return to Jerusalem. TEXT 2 Chronicles 34:1. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. 2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 3. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began

34:9 Jerusalem. (b-59) Some would read 'who had returned to Jerusalem,' or 'and they returned to Jerusalem.'...

REIGN OF JOSIAH The chapter narrates how Josiah suppressed idolatry and repaired the Temple; how a book of the Law, found in the Temple, was read to the king and the people; and how the nation's covenant with the Lord was renewed. This chapter and the following are, in general, parallel to 2 Kings 22; 2 Kings 23:1 with some unimportant variants; but the Chronicler gives more prominence than the writer of 2 Kings to the passover celebrated by Josiah....