Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 31:7
Third month — Of the sacred year, in which their harvest began. Seventh — In which their harvest ended and the feast of tabernacles was kept.
Third month — Of the sacred year, in which their harvest began. Seventh — In which their harvest ended and the feast of tabernacles was kept.
Verse 2 Chronicles 31:7. _IN THE THIRD MONTH_] "The month _Sivan_; the _seventh,_ _Tisri_." - _Targum_. _THE HEAPS_] The vast _collections of grain_ which they had from the tithes over and above the...
THE THIRD MONTH - Compare 2 Chronicles 29:3; 2Ch 30:2, 2 Chronicles 30:13. The events hitherto described - the destruction of the high places, the re-appointment of the courses, and the re-establishme...
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;...
THIRD... SEVENTH: i.e. Sivan, Thammuz, Ah, Elul, Ethanim. TO LAY THE FOUNDATION: i.e. to begin to build up the heaps....
_the third month_ The Feast of Harvest took place at the beginning of this month and seven weeks later the Feast of Ingathering followed....
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...
_IN THE THIRD MONTH THEY BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEAPS, AND FINISHED THEM IN THE SEVENTH MONTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's reorganisation of the Temple service....
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...
IN THE THIRD MONTH. — And so at the end of wheat-harvest, the third month (Sivan) answering to our May — June. Pentecost, the Feast of Harvest, or Firstfruits, fell in this month. TO LAY THE FOUNDATI...
בַּ † חֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ הַ שְּׁלִשִׁ֔י הֵחֵ֥לּוּ הָ...
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
ABUNDANT GIVING TO GOD 2 Chronicles 31:1 This Passover left a permanent impression on the nation, and led to the complete overthrow of idolatry. The pure worship of God was now established throughout...
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...
_Them, bringing from Pentecost till the harvest was ended._...
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...
IN THE THIRD MONTH THEY BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEAPS..... The month Sivan, as the Targum, in which month was the feast of Pentecost, called the feast of the harvest, Exodus 23:16, for then...
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month. Ver. 7. _In the third month._] About pentecost which is called the feast of harvest. _ The...
_They brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep_ They not only brought in the same tithe which the dwellers in Jerusalem did, namely, of _corn_, and _wine_, and _oil_, &c., which they had in their own st...
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...
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, at the time when the wheat-harvest began, AND FINISHED THEM IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, the time when the orchards had yielded their increas...
PROVISION MADE FOR THE LEVITES...
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...
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 LEVITIC...
2 Chronicles 31:7 third H7992 month H2320 began H2490 (H8689) heaps H3245 (H8800) H6194 finished H3615 ...
THIRD MONTH That is, June. SEVENTH MONTH That is, October....
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
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 31:7 The gathering of food lasts from the grain harvest in THE THIRD MONTH (May–June, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) until the fruit and vine harvest in THE SEVENTH...
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...
Leviticus 23:16...