_AND HEZEKIAH SENT TO ALL ISRAEL AND JUDAH, AND WROTE LETTERS ALSO TO EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH, THAT THEY SHOULD COME TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AT JERUSALEM, TO KEEP THE PASSOVER UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL._ Hezekiah sent to all ... Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh. The names of th... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE KING HAD TAKEN COUNSEL, AND HIS PRINCES, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION IN JERUSALEM, TO KEEP THE PASSOVER IN THE SECOND MONTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY ESTABLISHED A DECREE TO MAKE PROCLAMATION THROUGHOUT ALL ISRAEL, FROM BEERSHEBA EVEN TO DAN, THAT THEY SHOULD COME TO KEEP THE PASSOVER UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AT JERUSALEM: FOR THEY HAD NOT DONE IT OF A LONG TIME IN SUCH SORT AS IT WAS WRITTEN._ They established a decree to make procl... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE POSTS WENT WITH THE LETTERS FROM THE KING AND HIS PRINCES THROUGHOUT ALL ISRAEL AND JUDAH, AND ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE KING, SAYING, YE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL, AND HE WILL RETURN TO THE REMNANT OF YOU, THAT ARE ESCAPED OUT O... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BE NOT YE LIKE YOUR FATHERS, AND LIKE YOUR BRETHREN, WHICH TRESPASSED AGAINST THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, WHO THEREFORE GAVE THEM UP TO DESOLATION, AS YE SEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE POSTS PASSED FROM CITY TO CITY THROUGH THE COUNTRY OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH EVEN UNTO ZEBULUN: BUT THEY LAUGHED THEM TO SCORN, AND MOCKED THEM._ The posts passed from city to city. It is not surprising that after so long a discontinuance of the sacred festival, this attempt to revive it shou... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS DIVERS OF ASHER AND MANASSEH AND OF ZEBULUN HUMBLED THEMSELVES, AND CAME TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY AROSE AND TOOK AWAY THE ALTARS THAT WERE IN JERUSALEM, AND ALL THE ALTARS FOR INCENSE TOOK THEY AWAY, AND CAST THEM INTO THE BROOK KIDRON._ THEY AROSE AND TOOK AWAY THE ALTARS THAT WERE IN JERUSALEM. As a necessary preparation for the right observance of the approaching solemnity, the remo... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH: AND THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES WERE ASHAMED, AND SANCTIFIED THEMSELVES, AND BROUGHT IN THE BURNT OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ The priests and the Levites were ashamed. Though the Levites are associated in this stat... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY STOOD IN THEIR PLACE AFTER THEIR MANNER, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES THE MAN OF GOD: THE PRIESTS SPRINKLED THE BLOOD, WHICH THEY RECEIVED OF THE HAND OF THE LEVITES._ The priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites. This was a deviation from the establish... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THERE WERE MANY IN THE CONGREGATION THAT WERE NOT SANCTIFIED: THEREFORE THE LEVITES HAD THE CHARGE OF THE KILLING OF THE PASSOVERS FOR EVERY ONE THAT WAS NOT CLEAN, TO SANCTIFY THEM UNTO THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD HEARKENED TO HEZEKIAH, AND HEALED THE PEOPLE._ The Lord ... healed the people. We imagine the whole affair to have been the following: in consequence of their transgressions they had cause to fear disease and even death (Leviticus 15:31). Hezekiah prayed for the nation, which was on t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT AT JERUSALEM KEPT THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD SEVEN DAYS WITH GREAT GLADNESS: AND THE LEVITES AND THE PRIESTS PRAISED THE LORD DAY BY DAY, SINGING WITH LOUD INSTRUMENTS UNTO THE LORD._ The children of Israel ... kept the feast The time appointed by th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HEZEKIAH SPAKE COMFORTABLY UNTO ALL THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT THE GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD: AND_ _ THEY DID EAT THROUGHOUT THE FEAST SEVEN DAYS, OFFERING PEACE OFFERINGS, AND MAKING CONFESSION TO THE LORD_ _ GOD OF THEIR FATHERS._ Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY TOOK COUNSEL TO KEEP OTHER SEVEN DAYS: AND THEY KEPT OTHER SEVEN DAYS WITH GLADNESS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH DID GIVE TO THE CONGREGATION A THOUSAND BULLOCKS AND SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP; AND THE PRINCES GAVE TO THE CONGREGATION A THOUSAND BULLOCKS AND TEN THOUSAND SHEEP: AND A GREAT NUMBER OF PRIESTS SANCTIFIED THEMSELVES._ A great number of priests sanctified themselves - so that... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF JUDAH, WITH THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION THAT CAME OUT OF ISRAEL, AND THE STRANGERS THAT CAME OUT OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL, AND THAT DWELT IN JUDAH, REJOICED._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THERE WAS GREAT JOY IN JERUSALEM: FOR SINCE THE TIME OF SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL THERE WAS NOT THE LIKE IN JERUSALEM._ Since the time of Solomon ... there was not the like in Jerusalem. The annual festivals, after the schism in the kingdom, seem to have decayed in regularity as w... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES AROSE AND BLESSED THE PEOPLE: AND THEIR VOICE WAS HEARD, AND THEIR PRAYER CAME UP TO HIS HOLY DWELLING PLACE, EVEN UNTO HEAVEN._ The priests ... arose and blessed the people - (see the notes at Numbers 6:23.)... [ Continue Reading ]