JOSIAH. This passover kept in the eighteenth year of his reign (2 Kings 23:21). KEPT. PASSOVER. One of the ten observances recorded. See note on Exodus 12:28. FOURTEENTH DAY. In this respect it was unlike Hezekiah's. Compare 2 Chronicles 30:2 2 Chronicles 30:3, 2 Kings 23:22; 2 Kings 23:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SET THE PRIESTS, &C. This passover is interesting from the succinct description of its observance.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Deuteronomy 33:10; Deuteronomy 17:11, &c. ALL ISRAEL. Not Judah only. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. PUT... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WRITING OF DAVID. Compare 1 Chronicles 28:19; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 1 Chronicles 29:27; 1 Chronicles 29:30. THE WRITING OF SOLOMON. Compare 2 Chronicles 8:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIVISIONS. The word occurs only here. THE FAMILIES. the houses. THE PEOPLE. the sons of the People: i.e. the common people.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE HAND OF MOSES. This is Divine testimony as to the authorship of the Pentateuch (Exodus 12).... [ Continue Reading ]
HILKIAH. The high priest (2 Chronicles 34:9). GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEMAIAH... JOZABAD. Compare 2 Chronicles 31:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY: i.e. the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karab._ App-43. THE BOOK OF MOSES: i.e. Exodus. See App-47.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOD. boiled.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTERWARD. Contrast Ezekiel 34. OFFERING. offering up. Hebrew. _'alah._ See App-43.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID, AND ASAPH. Compare 1 Chronicles 25:1; 1 Chronicles 6:33 1 Chronicles 6:39, 1 Chronicles 6:44. SEER. See notes on Judges 9:9; 1 Chronicles 29:29. THEY MIGHT NOT: or they need not.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO PASSOVER LIKE TO THAT. Compare 2 Kings 23:22. No discrepancy with Hezekiah's passover (2 Chronicles 30:26); none like Hezekiah's till then. This, of Josiah's, was later, and exceeded it.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEPT. The Septuagint Version adds here [with. colon after kept]: " : after all these things that Josiah did in the house, who also burnt those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and the sodomites, which were in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that lie might... [ Continue Reading ]
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. AGAINST. at. CHARCHEMISH. the fortress of Chemosh). Pharaohnecho's object was to share the spoils of... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. Pharaoh-necho.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISGUISED HIMSELF. As Ahab had done (2 Chronicles 18:29; 1 Kings 22:30). MEGIDDO. Compare 2 Kings 23:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEPULCHRES. graves. Hebrew. _keber,_ as in 2 Chronicles 34:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH LAMENTED. This does not refer to the book of that name (Lamentations), though Josiah is referred to in it (Lamentations 4:20 and Jeremiah 22:10). Compare Zechariah 12:11; 2 Kings 23:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOODNESS. kindnesses. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, put for acts of kindness. See 2 Chronicles 32:32.... [ Continue Reading ]