Put the holy ark etc - The ark of the covenant may have been temporarily removed from the holy of holies while Josiah effected necessary repairs.
It shall not be a burden upon your shoulders - The removing and replacing the ark Josiah means “shall not henceforth be your duty. The ark shall remain undisturbed in the holy of holies. You shall return to your old employments, to the service of God and the instruction of the people.”
Verse 2 Chronicles 35:3. _PUT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE_] It is likely that the priests had secured this when they found that the idolatrous kings were determined to destroy every thing that might lea...
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...
THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL. This was the great and special duty of the priests and Levites. But they neglected it for their ritual, as too many priests have done from that day to this. See notes on Deuter...
_that taught all Israel_ Cp. Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 8:9; also (perhaps) 2 Chronicles 30:22, A.V....
THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL— _The Levites who taught all Israel how they should sanctify themselves before the Lord._ Houbigant....
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...
_AND SAID UNTO THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH WERE HOLY UNTO THE LORD, PUT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE WHICH SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL DID BUILD; IT SHALL NOT BE A BURDEN UPON Y...
PUT THE HOLY ARK, etc.] The following words suggest that during the repair of the Temple, it had been removed and committed to the care of the Levites....
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
THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL. — In the law (Nehemiah 8:7; comp. also 2 Chronicles 17:8). WHICH WERE HOLY UNTO THE LORD. — Separated to His service (Exodus 28:36, “Holiness to the Lord,” the insc...
(3-6) The king’s charge to the Levites....
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לַ֠ † לְוִיִּם _הַ_†_מְּבִינִ֨ים_†...
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 MEMORABLE PASSOVER 2 Chronicles 35:1 This Passover was memorable, not only for the imposing grandeur of the ceremonial, and the concourse of worshipers, but because of the strict adherence, even in...
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...
And said unto the Levites that (b) taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a (c) bu...
By whose. Sept. "the powerful in Israel, that they might be sanctified to the Lord; and they put," &c. Heb. "who instructed all Israel, the holy people of the Lord: Put," &c. H. --- No more. Heb. adds...
First; the ministry of the priests and Levites being arranged, we find the placing the ark, taking up the most important concern, as preparatory to the service. Jesus must be first beheld in the belie...
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...
AND SAID UNTO THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL,.... Whose business it was to go through the several tribes, and instruct them in the knowledge of God, his word and worship, statutes and ordinances....
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upo...
_That taught all Israel which were holy_ That is, the Levites were holy unto the Lord. And therefore it may be rendered, _and were holy,_ &c., that is, peculiarly dedicated to this service, of ministe...
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...
and said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the Lord, set apart for His service, PUT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE WHICH SOLOMON, THE SON OF DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL, DID BUILD; fo...
THE CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER...
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...
1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other...
WHICH WERE HOLY; or, and _which were holy_. IN THE HOUSE; in the temple; or in the holy of holies; whence, it may seem, it had been removed, either, 1. By some of the wicked and idolatrous kings of Ju...
2 Chronicles 35:3 said H559 (H8799) Levites H3881 taught H995 (H8688) (H8675) H4000 Israel H3478 holy...
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 35:1 Compare 2 Kings 23:21. ⇐...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 35:3 PUT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE THAT SOLOMON... BUILT (v. 2 Chronicles 35:3). The ark may have been removed
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...
1 Chronicles 23:26; 2 Chronicles 17:8; 2 Chronicles 17:9; 2 Chronicles 30:22;...
The house — In the holy of holies. Whence, it may seem, it had been removed, by some of the wicked kings of Judah, possibly by Josiah's father Amon. A burden — Or, that it might not be a burden, so th...