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IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR - This is the date of the finding of the Book
of the Law and of the Passover (marginal reference, and 2 Kings
23:23), but is not meant to apply to all the various reforms of Jos...
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V. THE REIGN OF JOSIAH
1. The Revival
CHAPTER 22
_ 1. Josiah begins to reign (2 Kings 22:1; 2 Chronicles 34:1)_
2. The temple repaired (2 Kings 22:3;...
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2 KINGS 22:1 TO 2 KINGS 23:30_ A_. THE REIGN AND REFORMS OF JOSIAH.
The fifty-seven years of the reigns of Manasseh and Amon were,
according to Kings (not Chronicles), a period of apostasy, which
prob...
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IT CAME TO PASS IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
This was when king Josiah was twenty-six years old. It is probable
that all these events did not occur in. single year, but the year in
which they began, or cu...
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_And it came to pass in the eighteenth year_ The Chronicler gives two
dates anterior to this for events in the course of Josiah's life. He
says (2 Chronicles 34:3-7 R.V.) -In the eighth year of his re...
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B. THE TEMPLE REPAIR 22:3-7
TRANSLATION
(3) And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the
king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe,
to the house of the L...
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_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,_
In the eighteenth year...
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JOSIAH. THE FINDING OF A BOOK OF THE LAW
1. Boscath] in Judah: cp. Joshua 15:39....
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 22
JOSIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH
V1 Josiah was 8 years old when he became king. He ruled in Jerusalem
for 31 years....
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IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR. — See the Notes on 2 Chronicles 34:3, _seq._
The discourses of Jeremiah, who began his prophetic ministry in the
thirteenth year of Josiah, to which Thenius refers as incompreh...
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וַ יְהִ֗י בִּ שְׁמֹנֶ֤ה עֶשְׂרֵה֙
שָׁנָ֔ה לַ
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JOSIAH
B.C. 639-608
2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 23:1
Jos., "Ant.," X 4:1.
"In outline dim and vast
Their fearful shadows cast
The giant forms of Empires, on their way
To ruin: one by one
They tower,...
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FINDING THE LOST LAW
2 Kings 22:1
In the midst of a dissolute court, Josiah's young life grew as a palm
on the desert-waste. At the age of sixteen he sought the Lord, and at
eighteen he became even m...
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With Josiah's accession came the last attempt at reformation before
Judah was finally swept into captivity. Josiah's first act of
reformation was to restore the Temple. All that followed grew out of
t...
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_Scribe of. Hebrew, "to the temple." (Chaldean; Syriac, &c.) It is not
certain that there was such an officer as scribe of the temple; but
the king's secretary was ordered by Joas to take an account o...
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If the Reader will read the parallel history of this pious king, as it
is more largely recorded in the book of the Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
34:1. he will there find that in the eighth year of his reig...
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Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see
how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh,
young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
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_A MEMORABLE YEAR_
‘The eighteenth year of king Josiah.’
2 Kings 22:3
Josiah mounted the throne when he was eight years old. He was the son
of Amon and the grandson of Manasseh, both of them evil r...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23.
Observe what grace raised up Hezekiah and Josiah, both of whom were
born of fathers given up to idolatry, and followed by sons who were
equally aba...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF KING JOSIAH,.... Not of
his age, but of his reign, as appears from 2 Chronicles 34:8 nor is
what follows the first remarkable act he did in a religious wa...
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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 eightee...
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_In the eighteenth year of King Josiah_ Not of his life, but of his
reign, as it is expressed, 2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8. _The
king sent Shaphan_ The secretary of state; _saying, Go up to H...
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1 Iosiah his good reigne.
3 He taketh care for the repaire of the Temple.
8 Hilkiah hauing found a booke of the Lawe, Iosiah sendeth to Huldah
to enquire of the Lord.
15 Huldah prophesieth destruct...
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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, the secretary of state, who was in charge of the finances, T...
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Josiah's Good Reign...
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JOSIAH'S GOOD REIGN
(22:1 - 23:30)
From Josiah's beginning to reign at eight years of age, his reign was
faithful and godly, for he walked in the ways of David, the first of
Israel's godly kings (v....
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1-10 The different event of Josiah's early succession from that of
Manasseh, must be ascribed to the distinguishing grace of God; yet
probably the persons that trained him up were instruments in prod...
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IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR, not of his life, but _of his reign_, as it is
expressed, 2 CHRONICLES 34:3,8. What he did before this time, see 2
CHRONICLES 34:3, &c. The scribe; the king's secretary....
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2 Kings 22:3 eighteenth H8083 H6240 year H8141 King H4428 Josiah H2977
king H4428 sent H7971 (H8804) Shaphan...
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INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE RESTORATION OF THE TEMPLE (2 KINGS 22:3).
In view of its connection with the Temple these instructions would
have been entered in the royal annals (compare 2 Kings 12:4). T...
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CONTENTS: Reign of Josiah. Repairing temple and finding of the book of
the law.
CHARACTERS: God, Josiah, Hilkiah, Shaphan, Huldah, Ahikam, Achbor,
Asahiah.
CONCLUSION: An unread Bible is a lost Bibl...
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2 Kings 22:8. _I have found the book of the law._ This was “the book
of the law of the Lord by Moses,” 2 Chronicles 34:14; that is, in
Moses's own handwriting. Lyranus, a rabbi, says, that Ahaz had bu...
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_Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign._
A MONARCH OF RARE VIRTUE, AND A GOD OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
I. A monarch of rare virtue. Josiah was eight years old when he began
to reign.” In th...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 22:1 Josiah. Josiah is a long-awaited good
king (see 1 Kings 13:2). He does many significant deeds, but it comes
too late to change Judah’s fate.
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 22:3 THE KING SENT SHAPHAN. Like Joash in 2
Kings 12:1, Josiah’s initial concern is simply to repair the temple,
not to reform its worship. I
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THE LAST EFFORT OF REFORMATION UNDER JOSIAH
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 22:2. HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT—In his minority Josiah
was. guarded and directed by godly teachers and counselor...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 22:1
ACCESSION OF JOSIAH. REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE. RECOVERY OF THE BOOK OF THE
LAW....
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And Josiah was only eight years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was
right in the sight of the LORD (2 Kings 22:1-2).
Now at this poi...
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2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Chronicles 34:9...
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The scribe — The secretary of state....