_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 ABIJAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ZECHARIAH._ Hezekiah began to reign ... - (see the notes at 2 Kings 18:1) His mother's name, which, in the passage referred to, app... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT DAVID HIS FATHER HAD DONE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF HIS REIGN, IN THE FIRST MONTH, OPENED THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND REPAIRED THEM._ In the first year of his reign, in the first month - not the first month after his accession to the throne, but in Nisan, the first month of the sacred year, the season appointed f... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT IN THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, AND GATHERED THEM TOGETHER INTO THE EAST STREET,_ The east street - the court of the priests, which fronted the eastern gate of the temple. Assembling the priests and Levites there, he enjoined them to set about the immediate purification of the templ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAID UNTO THEM, HEAR ME, YE LEVITES, SANCTIFY NOW YOURSELVES, AND SANCTIFY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, AND CARRY FORTH THE FILTHINESS OUT OF THE HOLY PLACE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR OUR FATHERS HAVE TRESPASSED, AND DONE THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE EYES OF THE LORD OUR GOD, AND HAVE FORSAKEN HIM, AND HAVE TURNED AWAY THEIR FACES FROM THE HABITATION OF THE LORD, AND TURNED THEIR BACKS._ Our fathers have trespassed. Ahaz and the generation contemporary with him were specially... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO THEY HAVE SHUT UP THE DOORS OF THE PORCH, AND PUT OUT THE LAMPS, AND HAVE NOT BURNED INCENSE NOR OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS IN THE HOLY PLACE UNTO THE GOD OF ISRAEL._ They ... shut up the doors of the porch - so that the sacred ritual was entirely discontinued.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE THE WRATH OF THE LORD WAS UPON JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, AND HE HATH DELIVERED THEM TO TROUBLE, TO ASTONISHMENT, AND TO HISSING, AS YE SEE WITH YOUR EYES._ Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem. This pious king had the discernment to ascribe all the national calamities... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR, LO, OUR FATHERS HAVE FALLEN BY THE SWORD, AND OUR SONS AND OUR DAUGHTERS AND OUR WIVES ARE IN CAPTIVITY FOR THIS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IT IS IN MINE HEART TO MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THAT HIS FIERCE WRATH MAY TURN AWAY FROM US._ Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with ... God. Convinced of the sin and bitter fruits of idolatry, Hezekiah intended to reverse the policy of his father, and to restore,... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY SONS, BE NOT NOW NEGLIGENT: FOR THE LORD HATH CHOSEN YOU TO STAND BEFORE HIM, TO SERVE HIM, AND THAT YE SHOULD MINISTER UNTO HIM, AND BURN INCENSE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE LEVITES AROSE, MAHATH THE SON OF AMASAI, AND JOEL THE SON OF AZARIAH, OF THE SONS OF THE KOHATHITES: AND OF THE SONS OF MERARI, KISH THE SON OF ABDI, AND AZARIAH THE SON OF JEHALELEL: AND OF THE GERSHONITES; JOAH THE SON OF ZIMMAH, AND EDEN THE SON OF JOAH:_ Then the Levites arose. Fourte... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND OF THE SONS OF ELIZAPHAN; SHIMRI, AND JEIEL: AND OF THE SONS OF ASAPH; ZECHARIAH, AND MATTANIAH:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER ALL THE VESSELS, WHICH KING AHAZ IN HIS REIGN DID CAST AWAY IN HIS TRANSGRESSION, HAVE WE PREPARED AND SANCTIFIED, AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE LORD._ Did cast away, [Septuagint, ha emianen] - which he had profaned or defiled.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HEZEKIAH THE KING ROSE EARLY, AND GATHERED THE RULERS OF THE CITY, AND WENT UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city. His anxiety to enter upon the expiatory service with all possible despatch, now that the temple had been properly p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BROUGHT SEVEN BULLOCKS, AND SEVEN RAMS, AND SEVEN LAMBS, AND SEVEN HE GOATS, FOR A SIN OFFERING FOR THE KINGDOM, AND FOR THE SANCTUARY, AND FOR JUDAH. AND HE COMMANDED THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF AARON TO OFFER THEM ON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HEZEKIAH ANSWERED AND SAID, NOW YE HAVE CONSECRATED YOURSELVES UNTO THE LORD, COME NEAR AND BRING SACRIFICES AND THANK OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. AND THE CONGREGATION BROUGHT IN SACRIFICES AND THANK OFFERINGS; AND AS MANY AS WERE OF A FREE HEART BURNT OFFERINGS._ Hezekiah ... said,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NUMBER OF THE BURNT OFFERINGS, WHICH THE CONGREGATION BROUGHT, WAS THREESCORE AND TEN BULLOCKS, AN HUNDRED RAMS, AND TWO HUNDRED LAMBS: ALL THESE WERE FOR A BURNT OFFERING TO THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE PRIESTS WERE TOO FEW, SO THAT THEY COULD NOT FLAY ALL THE BURNT OFFERINGS: WHEREFORE THEIR BRETHREN THE LEVITES DID HELP THEM, TILL THE WORK WAS ENDED, AND UNTIL THE OTHER PRIESTS HAD SANCTIFIED THEMSELVES: FOR THE LEVITES WERE MORE UPRIGHT IN HEART TO SANCTIFY THEMSELVES THAN THE PRIESTS._... [ Continue Reading ]