_JOSIAH WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED THIRTY AND ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND_ _ HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEDIDAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ADAIAH OF BOSCATH._ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign. Happier than his grandfather Manasseh, he seems to have fallen, during h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND WALKED IN ALL THE WAY OF DAVID HIS FATHER, AND TURNED NOT ASIDE TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JOSIAH, THAT THE KING SENT SHAPHAN THE SON OF AZALIAH, THE SON OF MESHULLAM, THE SCRIBE, TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, SAYING,_ In the eighteenth year of king Josiah. Previous to this period he had commenced the work of national reformation. The preli... [ Continue Reading ]
_GO UP TO HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST, THAT HE MAY SUM THE SILVER WHICH IS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHICH THE KEEPERS OF THE DOOR HAVE GATHERED OF THE PEOPLE:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST SAID UNTO SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, I HAVE FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. AND HILKIAH GAVE THE BOOK TO SHAPHAN, AND HE READ IT._ Hilkiah ... said ... I have found the book of the law ... - i:e., the law of Moses-the Pentateuch. It was the temple copy, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE CAME TO THE KING, AND BROUGHT THE KING WORD AGAIN, AND SAID, THY SERVANTS HAVE GATHERED THE MONEY THAT WAS FOUND IN THE HOUSE, AND HAVE DELIVERED IT INTO THE HAND OF THEM THAT DO THE WORK, THAT HAVE THE OVERSIGHT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 WRITTE... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HILKIAH THE PRIEST, AND AHIKAM, AND ACHBOR, AND SHAPHAN, AND ASAHIAH, WENT UNTO HULDAH THE PROPHETESS, THE WIFE OF SHALLUM THE SON OF TIKVAH, THE SON OF HARHAS, KEEPER OF THE WARDROBE; (NOW SHE DWELT IN JERUSALEM IN THE COLLEGE;) AND THEY COMMUNED WITH HER._ Ahikam - a friend of Jeremiah (Jerem... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, TELL THE MAN THAT SENT YOU TO ME,_ SHE SAID ... TELL THE MAN THAT SENT YOU. On being consulted, she delivered an oracular response in which judgment was blended with mercy; because it announced the impending calamities that at no distant pe... [ Continue Reading ]