2 Chronicles 35:4

_AND PREPARE YOURSELVES BY THE HOUSES OF YOUR FATHERS, AFTER YOUR COURSES, ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL, AND ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF SOLOMON HIS SON._ Prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses - i:e., each course or division was to be composed of those who belonged to the same father's house. ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF DAVID ... AND ... SOLOMON. Their injunctions are recorded, 2 Chronicles 8:14; 1 Chronicles 23:1; 1 Chronicles 24:1; 1 Chronicles 25:1;...

1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord....

EXPOSITION This chapter of twenty-seven Verses, occupied with the account of Josiah's great Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1), and his death in the battle of Megiddo, waged by Necho King of Egypt with "Carchemish by Euphrates" (2 Chronicles 35:20-14), is paralleled by the ten verses of 2 Kings 23:21-12. 2 CHRONICLES 35:1 THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH … OF THE FIRST MONTH;_ i.e. _on the day appointed originally (Exodus 12:6

AND PREPARE YOURSELVES,.... To do their work in this service of the sanctuary, the passover; that they be ready to do it, and diligent in it, and perform it according to the law of God: BY THE HOUSES OF YOUR FATHERS, AFTER YOUR COURSES; such of them whose turn in course it was to officiate: ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL, AND ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF SOLOMON HIS SON; who had given in writing directions in what manner their courses should be observed, see 1 Chronicles 23:1....

CHAPTER 35 THE KEEPING OF THE PASSOVER AND JOSIAH'S DEATH _ 1. The Passover kept (2 Chronicles 35:1)_ 2. The death of Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:20) In the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah, like his great-grandfather Hezekiah, kept the Passover. No doubt the reading of the law had made this feast once more an urgent necessity. Moreover they had made a solemn covenant “to walk after the LORD, to keep His commandments, His testimonies and His statutes, and to perform the words of the covenant written in the book.” Therefore in the appointed time, on the fourteenth day of the first month, they kept the memorial feast, the last before the house of Judah was carried into captivity. (Hezekiah's Passover was kept in the second month. See...

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...

THE WRITING OF DAVID. Compare 1 Chronicles 28:19; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 1 Chronicles 29:27; 1 Chronicles 29:30. THE WRITING OF SOLOMON. Compare 2 Chronicles 8:14....

_by the houses of your fathers, after your courses_ R.V. AFTER YOUR FATHERS" HOUSES BY YOUR COURSES. _the writing of David_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 23:27; 1 Chronicles 28:19-21....

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

REIGN OF JOSIAH (CONCLUDED) This chapter contains an account of how Josiah celebrates the Passover, and how he provoked Necho the king of Egypt, and was slain at Megiddo....