_AND THE KING SENT, AND THEY GATHERED UNTO HIM ALL THE ELDERS OF JUDAH AND OF JERUSALEM._ The king sent, and ... gathered ... all the elders. This pious and patriotic king, not content with the promise of his own security, felt, after Huldah's response, an increased desire to avert the threatened c... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING WENT UP INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM WITH HIM, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE PROPHETS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT: AND HE READ IN THEIR EARS ALL THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT WHICH WAS FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF T... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING STOOD BY A PILLAR, AND MADE A COVENANT BEFORE THE LORD, TO WALK AFTER THE LORD, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS TESTIMONIES AND HIS STATUTES WITH ALL THEIR HEART AND ALL THEIR SOUL, TO PERFORM THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK. AND ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD TO T... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING COMMANDED HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST, AND THE PRIESTS OF THE SECOND ORDER, AND THE KEEPERS OF THE DOOR, TO BRING FORTH OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD ALL THE VESSELS THAT WERE MADE FOR BAAL, AND FOR THE GROVE, AND FOR ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN: AND HE BURNED THEM WITHOUT JERUSALEM IN THE FIEL... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PUT DOWN THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS, WHOM THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD ORDAINED TO BURN INCENSE IN THE HIGH PLACES IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND IN THE PLACES ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM; THEM ALSO THAT BURNED INCENSE UNTO BAAL, TO THE SUN, AND TO THE MOON, AND TO THE PLANETS, AND TO ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT OUT THE GROVE FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WITHOUT JERUSALEM, UNTO THE BROOK KIDRON, AND BURNED IT AT THE BROOK KIDRON, AND STAMPED IT SMALL TO POWDER, AND CAST THE POWDER THEREOF UPON THE GRAVES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE._ Brought out the grove - i:e., Asherah the mystic tree, p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BRAKE DOWN THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES, THAT WERE BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHERE THE WOMEN WOVE HANGINGS FOR THE GROVE._ Brake down the houses of the sodomites, х_ HAQªDEESHIYM_ (H6945)] - of the males consecrated to Astarte (Venus) (see the notes at Deuteronomy 23:18; 1 Kings 14:24). WHE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT ALL THE PRIESTS OUT OF THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD BURNED INCENSE, FROM GEBA TO BEERSHEBA, AND BRAKE DOWN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE GATES THAT WERE IN THE ENTERING IN OF THE GATE OF JOSHUA THE GOVERNOR OF THE CITY, WHICH WERE ON A MAN'S LEFT HA... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR OF THE LORD IN JERUSALEM, BUT THEY DID EAT OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD AMONG THEIR BRETHREN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DEFILED TOPHETH, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE CHILDREN OF HINNOM, THAT NO MAN MIGHT MAKE HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE TO MOLECH._ Topbeth - so called from Toph, a drum; the prevailing opinion among Jewish writers being that the cries of the terrified children made to pa... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK AWAY THE HORSES THAT THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD GIVEN TO THE SUN, AT THE ENTERING IN OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, BY THE CHAMBER OF NATHANMELECH THE CHAMBERLAIN, WHICH WAS IN THE SUBURBS, AND BURNED THE CHARIOTS OF THE SUN WITH FIRE._ He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ALTARS THAT WERE ON THE TOP OF THE UPPER CHAMBER OF AHAZ, WHICH THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD MADE, AND THE ALTARS WHICH MANASSEH HAD MADE IN THE TWO COURTS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, DID THE KING BEAT DOWN, AND BRAKE THEM DOWN FROM THENCE, AND CAST THE DUST OF THEM INTO THE BROOK KIDRON._ The alt... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE HIGH PLACES THAT WERE BEFORE JERUSALEM, WHICH WERE ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MOUNT OF CORRUPTION, WHICH SOLOMON THE KING OF ISRAEL HAD BUILDED FOR ASHTORETH THE ABOMINATION OF THE ZIDONIANS, AND FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF THE MOABITES, AND FOR MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE CHILDREN OF AM... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BRAKE IN PIECES THE IMAGES, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, AND FILLED THEIR PLACES WITH THE BONES OF MEN._ Filled their places with the bones of men. Every monument of idolatry in his dominions he in like manner destroyed, and the places where they stood he defiled by strewing them with dead men'... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER THE ALTAR THAT WAS AT BETHEL, AND THE HIGH PLACE WHICH JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL TO SIN, HAD MADE, BOTH THAT ALTAR AND THE HIGH PLACE HE BRAKE DOWN, AND BURNED THE HIGH PLACE, AND STAMPED IT SMALL TO POWDER, AND BURNED THE GROVE._ Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el ..... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS JOSIAH TURNED HIMSELF, HE SPIED THE SEPULCHRES THAT WERE THERE IN THE MOUNT, AND SENT, AND TOOK THE BONES OUT OF THE SEPULCHRES, AND BURNED THEM UPON THE ALTAR, AND POLLUTED IT, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH THE MAN OF GOD PROCLAIMED, WHO PROCLAIMED THESE WORDS._ And as Josiah tur... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE SAID, WHAT TITLE IS THAT THAT I SEE? AND THE MEN OF THE CITY TOLD HIM, IT IS THE SEPULCHRE OF THE MAN OF GOD, WHICH CAME FROM JUDAH, AND PROCLAIMED THESE THINGS THAT THOU HAST DONE AGAINST THE ALTAR OF BETHEL._ What title is that that I see? The king's attention, it is probable, had been a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, LET HIM ALONE; LET NO MAN MOVE HIS BONES. SO THEY LET HIS BONES ALONE, WITH THE BONES OF THE PROPHET THAT CAME OUT OF SAMARIA._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING COMMANDED ALL THE PEOPLE, SAYING, KEEP THE PASSOVER UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THIS COVENANT._ The king commanded ... Keep the Passover ... It was observed with great solemnity, and was attended not only by his own subjects, but by the remnant people from... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY THERE WAS NOT HOLDEN SUCH A PASSOVER FROM THE DAYS OF THE JUDGES THAT JUDGED ISRAEL, NOR IN ALL THE DAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, NOR OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER THE WORKERS WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, AND THE WIZARDS, AND THE IMAGES, AND THE IDOLS, AND ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT WERE SPIED IN THE LAND OF JUDAH AND IN JERUSALEM, DID JOSIAH PUT AWAY, THAT HE MIGHT PERFORM THE WORDS OF THE LAW WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK THAT HILKIAH THE PRIEST FOUND IN... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LIKE UNTO HIM WAS THERE NO KING BEFORE HIM, THAT TURNED TO THE LORD WITH ALL HIS HEART, AND WITH ALL HIS SOUL, AND WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW OF MOSES; NEITHER AFTER HIM AROSE THERE ANY LIKE HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOTWITHSTANDING THE LORD TURNED NOT FROM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS GREAT WRATH, WHEREWITH HIS ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST JUDAH, BECAUSE OF ALL THE PROVOCATIONS THAT MANASSEH HAD PROVOKED HIM WITHAL._ Notwithstanding the Lord turned ... The national reformation which Josiah carried on was acquiesced in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL REMOVE JUDAH ALSO OUT OF MY SIGHT, AS I HAVE REMOVED ISRAEL, AND WILL CAST OFF THIS CITY JERUSALEM WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN, AND THE HOUSE OF WHICH I SAID, MY NAME SHALL BE THERE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN HIS DAYS PHARAOH-NECHOH KING OF EGYPT WENT UP AGAINST THE KING OF ASSYRIA TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES: AND KING JOSIAH WENT AGAINST HIM; AND HE SLEW HIM AT MEGIDDO, WHEN HE HAD SEEN HIM._ In his days Pharaoh-nechon - (see 2 Chronicles 35:20, and 2 Chron.)... [ Continue Reading ]