2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 31 The people forward in destroying idolatry: Hezekiah ordereth the courses of the priests and Levites; and provideth for their work and maintenance, 2 CHRONICLES 31:1. The people forward in offerings and tithes, 2 CHRONICLES 31:5. Hezekiah appointeth officers to dispose of the... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Within the gates of the house of the Lord; which is here called TENTS, partly because all houses are oft so called, as JUDGES 19:9, JUDGES 20:8 PSALMS 69:25; and partly because the host of the Lord, to wit, the priests and Levites, frequently so called, encamped there, and kept their stations a... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE BURNT-OFFERINGS; which had hitherto been, and were to be, taken out of the treasures of the temple which were collected from the people, 1 CHRONICLES 26:20 NEHEMIAH 10:32,33; but that he might ease them in their present poverty, which his predecessor had brought upon them, and engage them to... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Freed from worldly cares and distractions, and enabled to give up themselves entirely to the serious study of God's law, in which many of them were ignorant, and to the instruction, and direction, and quickening of the people in their several duties.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS SOON AS THE COMMANDMENT CAME ABROAD; either, 1. As soon as the report of this command of the king, 2 CHRONICLES 31:4, was got abroad into other parts. Or, 2. As soon as the king enlarged and extended that command to all the parts of his kingdom, which, 2 CHRONICLES 31:4, was confined to them th... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO THE TITHE OF OXEN AND SHEEP; they brought in not only the same tithes which the dwellers in Jerusalem did, to wit, of _corn, and wine, and oil_, &c., which they had in their own storehouses in that city; but also oxen and sheep, which were more proper to the country; for _under the cities of Ju... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE THIRD MONTH, to wit, of the sacred year, EXODUS 12:2 in which their harvest began. IN THE SEVENTH MONTH; in which their harvest ended and the feast of tabernacles was kept, EXODUS 23:16 LEVITICUS 23:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY BLESSED THE LORD; both for giving such plentiful provisions to his land in this year, and for giving his people such liberal and pious hearts towards this good work. AND HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL; they praised them for their forwardness and faithfulness in it.... [ Continue Reading ]
How it came to pass that no more of their provision was spent, and that there yet remained such great heaps of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHIEF PRIEST OF THE HOUSE OF ZADOK; either, 1. The high priest, called also Zadok, 1 CHRONICLES 6:12, because he was of his line and family. Or, 2. The chief priest, or the head of that family of Zadok, or of Eleazar; as there was another chief priest of the family of Abiathar, or of Ithamar;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; largely so called, to wit, in the courts, or in the chambers adjoining to the house.... [ Continue Reading ]
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OVERSEERS UNDER THE HAND OF CONONIAH AND SHIMEI HIS BROTHER, i.e. to dispose of those provisions by their direction, and to be accountable to them therein. THE RULER OF THE HOUSE OF GOD; either the supreme ruler, to wit, the high priest; or the chief ruler under him, and in his stead, being appointe... [ Continue Reading ]
TOWARD THE EAST; at the east gate of the Lord's house; of which SEE POOLE ON "2 CHRONICLES 23:5". TO DISTRIBUTE to the priests and Levites, to whom they were appropriated by God. THE MOST HOLY THINGS, to wit, the remainders of the free-will-offering, LEVITICUS 2:3,10, the sin-offering and trespass-o... [ Continue Reading ]
These were intrusted with the receiving and distributing of the several portions belonging to the priests who abode in their several cities, whilst their brethren came up to Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD; to whom a portion of these things was allotted, as is here implied. UNTO EVERY ONE THAT ENTERETH INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; that were capable of entering thither and doing service there, which they were at twenty years old, as is expressed here, 2 CHRONICLES 31:17,... [ Continue Reading ]
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This is alleged as a reason why their wives and children were provided for out of the holy things, because they sequestered themselves from worldly affairs, by which they might otherwise have provided for their families, and entirely devoted themselves to holy administrations.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIESTS, WHICH WERE IN THE FIELDS; who are opposed to those that lived in or resorted to the great city Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
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