When Josiah had prepared the temple; when he and his people hoped that God was reconciled, and the foundation of a solid and lasting happiness was laid, their hopes were quickly blasted. So much are men oft mistaken in their judgments about the designs of God's counsel and providence. Charchemish; which the Assyrian had lately taken from the king of Egypt; of which he boasts, Isaiah 10:9.
Verse 2 Chronicles 35:20. _NECHO KING OF EGYPT_] _Pharaoh the lame_, says the _Targum_....
AFTER ALL THIS - i. e. 13 years after, 608 B.C. See the 2 Kings 23:28 notes....
CHAPTER 35 THE KEEPING OF THE PASSOVER AND JOSIAH'S DEATH _ 1. The Passover kept (2 Chronicles 35:1)_ 2. The death of Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:20) In the eighteenth year of his reign, Josiah, like hi...
2 Chronicles 34:1 to 2 Chronicles 35:27. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH. See notes on 2 Kings 22, 2 Kings 23:1, which form the basis of the Chronicler's account; but he has made many alterations in accordance wi...
AFTER ALL THIS. Thirteen years after. TEMPLE. house. NECHO. Called also Pharaoh-necho. Said to be the founder of the twentyfifth dynasty, about the thirty-fifth year of Manasseh: i.e. in 553 B.C. A...
_Necho_ R.V. NECO. This was Neco II. (reigned 611 595 b.c., Maspero, _Histoire Ancienne_, p. 545, note), who according to Herodotus (II. 159) conquered the "Syrians" (Jews _or_Assyrians?) at "Magdol...
LESSON TWENTY-FOUR 34-36 JOSIAH'S REFORMATION THE LAST DAYS OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. THE DECREE OF CYRUS 17. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH (Chapter 34-35) INTRODUCTION Josiah and Hilkiah...
_AFTER ALL THIS WHEN JOSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE NECHO KING OF EGYPT CAME UP TO FIGHT AGAINST_ _ AFTER ALL THIS, WHEN JOSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE, NECHO KING OF EGYPT CAME UP TO FIGHT AGAINST CA...
AGAINST] better, 'at.' Necho's purpose was to share the spoils of the falling Assyrian empire. Nineveh was taken by the Babylonians about 607....
REIGN OF JOSIAH (CONCLUDED) This chapter contains an account of how Josiah celebrates the Passover, and how he provoked Necho the king of Egypt, and was slain at Megiddo....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 35 JOSIAH’S *PASSOVER *FEAST – 2 CHRONICLES 35:1-19 V1
JOSIAH SLAIN IN BATTLE AGAINST NECHO KING OF EGYPT (2 Chronicles 35:20. Comp. 2 Kings 23:29; 2 Kings 3 Ezra 1:23-30). (20) AFTER ALL THIS. — Comp. the similar, “after these matters, and this faithfuln...
אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל ־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֨הוּ֙...
THE LAST KINGS OF JUDAH 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 35:1; 2 Chronicles 36:1 WHATEVER influence Manasseh's reformation exercised over his people generally, the taint of idolatry was
A FATAL CONFLICT 2 Chronicles 35:16 The huge masses of people were admitted according to their families into the sacred courts, and the gates were closed as soon as these were filled. Thus all the fa...
This chapter gives us the story of the great Passover, in which, following in the steps of Hezekiah, after the cleansing of the land and the restoration of the people Josiah thus restored the great fe...
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against (k) Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. (k) Which was a city of the Assyrians a...
_Charcamis belonged to the Assyrian monarch, (Isaias x. 9.) who subdued the empire of Babylon, C. xxxiii. 11._...
We have here, as in all men, a shade to the character of Josiah. The sequel in Josiah's death proves that what Necho, king of Egypt, told Josiah, was well founded. Such a message therefore he ought to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 THROUGH 36. Manasseh, his son, who gave himself up to iniquity in spite of the warnings of the prophets, brought desolation and ruin upon himself and after...
AFTER ALL THIS, WHEN JOSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE,.... Purified it, and cleansed it from the filth in it, and from all idolatry, and had repaired it, and put the service of it in good order, and on...
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. Ver. 20. _After all this,_] viz, Thirteen y...
_After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple_ When he and his people hoped that God was reconciled, and the foundation of a lasting happiness laid, their hopes were quickly blasted. So much ar...
1 Iosiah keepeth a most solemne Passeouer. 20 Hee prouoking Pharaoh Nechoh, is slaine at Megiddo. 25 Lamentations for Iosiah. 1 MOREOUER [NOTE: 2 Kings 23:21-22.] Iosiah kept a Passeouer vnto ye LOR...
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the Temple, when his work of restoring the ancient worship had come to a close and an era of peace and prosperity might have been expected, NECHO, KING OF EGYP...
JOSIAH SLAIN AT MEGIDDO...
AN EXCEPTIONAL PASSOVER (vv.1-19) So near to the end of the history of the kings of Israel it is beautiful to see a Passover being kept, of which we are told, "There had been no Passover kept in Isr...
TEMPLE: _ Heb._ house...
20-27 The Scripture does not condemn Josiah's conduct in opposing Pharaoh. Yet Josiah seems to deserve blame for not inquiring of the Lord after he was warned; his death might be a rebuke for his ras...
2 Chronicles 35:20 After H310 Josiah H2977 prepared H3559 (H8689) temple H1004 Necho H5224 king H4428 Egypt...
CONTENTS: The passover kept. Death of Josiah. CHARACTERS: God, Josiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Religion cannot flourish if the passover is neglected. Christ, our passover, is sacrificed...
2 Chronicles 35:3. _Put the holy ark in the house._ Perhaps in idolatrous times the ark had been removed: and as the copy of the law written by the hand of Moses had been concealed, we need wonder the...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 35:20 Josiah died while confronting Pharaoh NECO II at Megiddo in 609 B.C. The Egyptian king was bringing his army north to help the Assyrians fight against Babylon....
CRITICAL NOTES.] The preparations for the Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1); the actual celebration (2 Chronicles 35:10); Josiah’s defeat by Necho (2 Chronicles 35:20)....
EXPOSITION This chapter of twenty-seven Verses, occupied with the account of Josiah's great Passover (2 Chronicles 35:1), and his death in the battle of Megiddo, waged by Necho King of Egypt with "Car...
The death of Josiah is declared in the latter part of chapter 35. And what had happened is that the king of Egypt had come into the land and was fighting up in the area of Megiddo and Josiah went up a...
2 Kings 23:29; 2 Kings 23:30; Isaiah 10:9; Jeremiah 46:2...
After all — When he and his people hoped that God was reconciled, and the foundation of a lasting happiness laid, their hopes were quickly blasted. So much are men often mistaken in their judgments ab...