Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Chronicles 31:15
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.
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.
Verse 2 Chronicles 31:15. _AND MINIAMIN_] Instead of מנימן, _Miniamin_, בנימן, Benjamin, is the reading of three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.; and this is the reading of the _Vulgate, Syriac, Se...
THE CITIES OF THE PRIESTS - i. e. the Levitical cities (compare marginal reference). Of these, some had gone to decay, while others, as Libnah and Beth-shemesh 2 Chronicles 21:10; 2 Chronicles 28:18,...
CHAPTER 31 THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL _ 1. The destruction of the false worship (2 Chronicles 31:1)_ 2. The king's appointments (2 Chronicles 31:2) All was done by Hezekiah for the orderly continuan...
2 Chronicles 29:1 to 2 Chronicles 32:33. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 18:2 f., 2 Kings 18:13;...
EDEN. Compare 2 Chronicles 29:12. SET OFFICE. office of trust....
_next him_ R.V. UNDER HIM. _in the cities_ The persons mentioned in 2 Chronicles 31:12-14 were in Jerusalem itself. The priestly cities are given 1 Chronicles 6:54-60. _in_their _set office_ R.V. mg...
14. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (29-32) TEXT 2 Chronicles 29:1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was A...
_AND BROUGHT IN THE OFFERINGS AND THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED THINGS FAITHFULLY: OVER WHICH CONONIAH THE LEVITE WAS RULER, AND SHIMEI HIS BROTHER WAS THE NEXT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
31:15 him (a-3) Lit. 'under his hand.' trust, (b-24) Or 'priests, faithfully to ...' distributions (c-27) Lit. 'to give.'...
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's reorganisation of the Temple service....
TO GIVE to THEIR BRETHREN] The general sense of 2 Chronicles 31:15 is that the officers named in 2 Chronicles 31:15 distributed to all the priests who dwelt in the priestly cities a share of the peopl...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 31 HEZEKIAH ORGANISES *SACRIFICES AND GIFTS – 2 CHRONICLES 31:1-21...
NEXT HIM. — _By his hand_ (‘al _yâdô_). (Comp. 1 Chronicles 25:2.) The meaning is, “subordinate to him.” The six Levites here named as under the direction of Korê had the duty of distributing a prope...
וְ עַל ־יָדֹ֡ו עֵ֣דֶן וּ֠ מִנְיָמִן וְ
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
ORDER AND PROSPERITY 2 Chronicles 31:11 There are several noticeable expressions in this paragraph. We are told that they brought in the dedicated things faithfully, 2 Chronicles 31:12; and that the...
The observance of the feast was followed by reorganization of the nation. The remnant gathered from Israel became the pioneers in destroying all that remained of idolatry throughout the cities of Juda...
The liberal supply which both the king and people made for the maintenance of the priests and Levites, is another proof how much the service of the sanctuary lay in the hearts of the people. Those onl...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 THROUGH 31. Jotham, the son of Uzziah, walks uprightly; and he avoids his father's fault; but the people are still corrupt. Nevertheless the faithfulness...
AND NEXT TO HIM WERE EDEN AND MIJAMIN, AND JESHUA, AND SHEMAIAH, AMARIAH, AND SHECANIAH,.... As Kore was the principal, and his business lay chiefly with the priests in the temple, and in Jerusalem, t...
And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the grea...
_The porter toward the east_ At the east gate of the Lord's house; of which see 2 Chronicles 23:5. _To distribute the oblations _ To the priests and Levites, to whom they were appropriated by God; _an...
1 The people is forward in destroying idolatry. 2 Hezekiah ordereth the courses of the priests and Leuites, and prouideth for their worke and maintenance. 5 The peoples forwardnesse in offerings and...
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, as his assistants, IN THE CITIES OF THE PRIESTS, IN THEIR SET OFFICE, rather, "in faithfulness," for they also w...
THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED THINGS...
HEZEKIAH'S WORK OF REFORMATION (vv.1-21) When Hezekiah had taken positive action to give God His true place of authority in the Passover feast, he rightly followed this up with the negative work of...
NEXT HIM: _ Heb._ at his hand SET OFFICE: Or, trust...
2 Chronicles 31:15 Eden H5731 Miniamin H4509 Jeshua H3442 Shemaiah H8098 Amariah H568 Shecaniah H7935 assistants H530 c
CONTENTS: Idols destroyed and other reforms of Hezekiah. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Azariah, Cononiah, Kore. CONCLUSION: Vital communion with God on the ground of the shed blood will kindle in us a...
2 Chronicles 31:1. _In Ephraim and Manasseh,_ for many of these had attended the passover, and placed themselves again under David's house. 2 Chronicles 31:21. _He did it with all his heart._ King He...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 31:2 The final stage in Hezekiah’s reforms is the restoration of the temple services, which evidently ceased when Ahaz closed the temple (2 Chronic
CRITICAL NOTES.] Destruction of idolatry (2 Chronicles 31:1); H. appoints courses and contributions (2 Chronicles 31:2); and arranges the chambers and officers (2 Chronicles 31:11)....
EXPOSITION This chapter, after its first verse (which holds an intermediate place with relation to the enthusiastic devoutness of the people recorded in the last verse of the former chapter, and what...
Now when all this was finished, all of Israel and those that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and they broke the images in pieces, they cut down the groves, they threw down the high place...
1 Chronicles 25:8; 1 Chronicles 6:54; 1 Chronicles 9:22; 2 Chronicles 31:13;...
And next, &c. — These were intrusted with receiving and distributing the several portions belonging to the priests who abode in their several cities, whilst their brethren came up to Jerusalem....