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. Ver. 1. _Josiah was eight years old._] Josiah he was called by God two or three hundred years before he was born. 1Ki 13:2 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. Ver. 2. _And he did that which was right._] Helped on, no doubt, by the holy prophets of his time, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Huldah, &c.; as w... [ 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, Ver. 3. _In the eighteenth year of king Josiah._] That is, In the eighteenth year of his reign; after that, with a great de... [ 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: Ver. 4. _Go up to Helkiah the high priest._] Who perhaps was father to Jeremiah the prophet. Jer 1:1 _ That he may sum the silver._]... [ Continue Reading ]
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, Ver. 5. _Into the hands of the doers of the work._] So both the o... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. Ver. 6. _To buy timber and hewn stone._] For the very stone walls also _temporis iniuria et hominum incuria_ were much decayed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. Ver. 7. _Howbeit there was no reckoning._] Or, Let there be no reckoning made with them of the money: for they will deal faithfully. See Nehemiah 7:2. _See Trapp on "_ Neh 7... [ 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. Ver. 8. _I have found the book of the law._] _Authenticum Mosis autographum; _ Deuteronomy; or perhaps the whole law in Moses's... [ 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. Ver. 9. _Thy servants have gathered._... [ Continue Reading ]
And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. Ver. 10. _And Shaphan read it before the king._] Who well showed how he was affected toward it, and wrought upon by it, (1.) _Lectione libri; _ (2.) _Laceratione vestium... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes._ Ver. 11. _When the king had heard the words._] Which the wicked account to be but wind, Jer 5:13 and spoken _in terrorem_ only; though God threaten to make them fire, Jer 5:14 and as he gave h... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, Ver. 12. _And Achbor the son of Michaiah._] Called Abdon the son of Micah, 2Ch 34:20 by a different pronunciation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Go ye, enquire 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 writt... [ 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. Ver. 14. _Went unto Huldah the prophet... [ Continue Reading ]
_And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,_ Ver. 15. _Tell the man._] Kings had need to be told that they are but men. Remember that thou art but a man, said the boy to king Philip: and _Agnosco me esse mortalem,_ I acknowledge myself a mortal, sai... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: Ver. 16. _Behold, I will bring evil upon this place._] God is absolute in threatening, because resolute in punishing.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. Ver. 17. _Because they have forsaken me._] The reformation they make bein... [ Continue Reading ]
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [As touching] the words which thou hast heard; Ver. 18. _But to the king of Judah._] Here she giveth him his just title, whom before she had called "man." 2Ki 22:15 Piety is... [ Continue Reading ]
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. Ver. 20. _And thou shalt be gathered unto thy grave in peace._] And yet he d... [ Continue Reading ]