And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. LE ROI ENVOYA ET ... RASSEMBLA ... TOUS LES ANCIENS. Ce roi pieux et patriotique, non content de la promesse de sa propre sécurité, sentit: après la réponse de Huldah, un désir accru d'éviter les calamités men... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of t... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to t... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fiel... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. A FAIT SORTIR LE BOSQUET - i: e., Asherah l'arbre mystiq... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. FREINEZ LES MAISONS DES SODOMITES , [ haqªdeeshiym (H6945)] - des mâles consacrés à Astarté (Vénus) (voir les notes à Deutéronome 23:18; 1 Rois 14:24). OÙ LES FEMMES T... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left ha... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_NEVERTHELESS THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR OF THE LORD IN JERUSALEM, BUT THEY DID EAT OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD AMONG THEIR BRETHREN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. TOPBETH - ainsi appelé de Toph, un tambour; l'opinion dominante parmi les écrivains juifs étant que les cris des enfants terrifiés qui passa... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. IL A EMMENÉ LES CHEVAUX QUE LES ROIS DE JUDA AVAIENT DONNÉ... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. LES AU... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Am... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. REMPLI LEURS PLACES AVEC LES OS DES HOMMES. Chaque monument de l'idolâtrie dans ses domaines, il a détruit de la même manière, et les endroits où ils se tenaient il les a souillés en les ré... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. DE PLUS L'AUTEL QUI SE TROUVAIT À BETH-EL... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. ET PENDANT QUE JO... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. QUEL TITRE EST-CE QUE JE VOIS? L'attention du roi, il est probable, avait été a... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND HE SAID, LET HIM ALONE; LET NO MAN MOVE HIS BONES. SO THEY LET HIS BONES ALONE, WITH THE BONES OF THE PROPHET THAT CAME OUT OF SAMARIA._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. LE ROI A ORDONNÉ ... GARDEZ LA PÂQUE ... Elle a été observée avec une grande solennité et a été suivie non seulement par ses propres sujets, mais aussi par les... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_SURELY THERE WAS NOT HOLDEN SUCH A PASSOVER FROM THE DAYS OF THE JUDGES THAT JUDGED ISRAEL, NOR IN ALL THE DAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, NOR OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND LIKE UNTO HIM WAS THERE NO KING BEFORE HIM, THAT TURNED TO THE LORD WITH ALL HIS HEART, AND WITH ALL HIS SOUL, AND WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW OF MOSES; NEITHER AFTER HIM AROSE THERE ANY LIKE HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. NONOBSTANT LE SEIGNEUR S'EST RETOURNÉ ... La réforme nationale que Josias a menée a été acceptée par le... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL REMOVE JUDAH ALSO OUT OF MY SIGHT, AS I HAVE REMOVED ISRAEL, AND WILL CAST OFF THIS CITY JERUSALEM WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN, AND THE HOUSE OF WHICH I SAID, MY NAME SHALL BE THERE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. EN SON TEMPS, PHARAON-NECHON - (voir 2 Chroniques 35:20 - 2 Chroniques 35:27 et 2 Chron.)... [ Continuer la lecture ]