2 Kings 22:13

_GO YE, INQUIRE OF THE LORD FOR ME, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, AND FOR ALL JUDAH, CONCERNING THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK THAT IS FOUND: FOR GREAT IS THE WRATH OF THE LORD THAT IS KINDLED AGAINST US, BECAUSE OUR FATHERS HAVE NOT HEARKENED UNTO THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK, TO DO ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN CONCERNING US._ Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me ... To "inquire of the Lord," through the appointed methods, by Urim and Thummim, or from the prophets, was a phraseology as common amount the Jews as to consult a physician or lawyer is among ourselves. Innumerable instances occur in the Old Testament (Genesis 25:22; Judges 1:1; Judges 10:10;...

11-20 The book of the law is read before the king. Those best honour their Bibles, who study them; daily feed on that bread, and walk by that light. Convictions of sin and wrath should put us upon this inquiry, What shall we do to be saved? Also, what we may expect, and must provide for. Those who are truly apprehensive of the weight of God's wrath, cannot but be very anxious how they may be saved. Huldah let Josiah know what judgments God had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. The generality of the people were hardened, and their hearts unhumbled, but Josiah's heart was tender. This is tenderness of heart, and thus he humbled himself before the Lord. Those who most fear God's wrath, are least likely to feel it. Though Josiah was mortally wounded in battle, yet he died in peace with God, and went to glory. Whatever such persons suffer or witness, they are gathered to the grave in peace, a...

ENQUIRE OF THE LORD - As inquiry by Urim and Thummim had ceased - apparently because superseded by prophecy - this order was equivalent to an injunction to seek the presence of a prophet (compare 2 Kings 3:11; 1 Kings 22:5). BECAUSE OUR FATHERS HAVE NOT HEARKENED - Josiah, it will be observed, assumes that preceding generations had had full opportunity of hearing and knowing the Law. He thus regards the loss as comparatively recent (compare 2 Kings 22:8 note)....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 22:1 ACCESSION OF JOSIAH. REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE. RECOVERY OF THE BOOK OF THE LAW. 2 KINGS 22:1 GENERAL CHARACTER OF JOSIAH'S REIGN. _His repair of the temple_._ _The writer begins his account of Josiah's reign with the usual brief summary, giving his age at his accession, the length of his reign, his mother's name and birthplace ...

GO YE, INQUIRE OF THE LORD,.... Of some of his prophets, as Jeremiah, who began to prophesy in the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign, and had been a prophet five years, Jeremiah 1:1, FOR ME, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, AND FOR ALL JUDAH, CONCERNING THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK THAT IS FOUND; for he observed that this book threatened and foretold not only the captivity of the ten tribes, but of Judah, and of their king; and Jarchi thinks, he had a particular respect to that passage, THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE AND THY KING, c. Deuteronomy 28:36 and therefore was desirous of knowing what he and his people must do to avert those judgments: FOR GREAT IS THE WRATH OF THE LORD THAT IS KINDLED AGAINST US which he concluded from the threatenings denounced:...

V. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH 1. The Revival CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Josiah begins to reign (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chronicles 34:1)_ 2. The temple repaired (2 Kings 22:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8) 3. The law discovered (2 Kings 22:8; 2 Chronicles 34:14) 4. The reading of the law and its results (2 Kings 22:10) 5. The

2 KINGS 22:1 TO 2 KINGS 23:30_ A_. THE REIGN AND REFORMS OF JOSIAH. The fifty-seven years of the reigns of Manasseh and Amon were, according to Kings (not Chronicles), a period of apostasy, which probably continued for the first ten years of Josiah. The prophetic party had consequently remained out of power since the persecution of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16). They regained their influence by the discovery of the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22:8). The prophetess Huldah, on being consulted, foretold that all the calamities predicted in the book would come true, but that Josiah should go to his grave in peace and not witness the ruin of hi

GO YE, AND INQUIRE OF THE LORD FOR ME. This order is equivalent to. command to seek the presence of. prophet. There were two of this order in Judea at this time of whom we know, Jeremiah who had begun to prophesy five years before (Jeremiah 1:2), and Huldah, the wife of Shallum.. For some reason unknown to us they went to the prophetess. Then followed. solemn public reading of the law and. national repentance and reformation. The whole nation renewed its covenant with Jehovah, and the, king proceeded to carry into execution the diving precepts. PRACTICAL AND SUGGESTIVE. 1. Elijah in Israel, Josiah in Judah, and Luther in Europe, were all restorers of the word of God. Idolatrous princes and nobles in the one case, and in the other idolatrous priests had wrested it from the people. The ignorance of Christendom of the Divine law before Wickliffe and Luther gave it to the

AND FOR ALL JUDAH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "and for the remnant in Israel and in Judah". Compare 2 Chronicles 34:21; 2 Chronicles 6:4); Deborah (Judges 4:4); Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14); Isaiah's wife (Isaiah 8:3); Anna (Luke 2:36); and Philip's daughters (Acts 21:9). THE WIFE. Compare the usage ...

C. A LOST BOOK RECOVERED 22:8-13 TRANSLATION (8) And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, The book of the law I have found in the house of the LORD! And Hilkiah gave the book unto Shaphan, and he read it. (9) And Shaphan the scribe came unto the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have gathered the silver that was found in the house, and they have given it into the hand of the workers, the ones who have been ap pointed in the house of the LORD. (10) And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given to me a book, and Shaphan read it before the king. (11) And when the king heard the words of the book of the Law, he rent his garments. (12) And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah the servant of the king, saying, (13) Go inquire of...