_NOW WHEN ALL THIS WAS FINISHED, ALL ISRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT WENT OUT TO THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND BRAKE THE IMAGES IN PIECES, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, AND THREW DOWN THE HIGH PLACES AND THE ALTARS OUT OF ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, IN EPHRAIM ALSO AND MANASSEH, UNTIL THEY HAD UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM ALL... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HEZEKIAH APPOINTED THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES AFTER THEIR COURSES, EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS SERVICE, THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES FOR BURNT OFFERINGS AND FOR PEACE OFFERINGS, TO MINISTER, AND TO GIVE THANKS, AND TO PRAISE IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE LORD._ Hezekiah appointed... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE APPOINTED ALSO THE KING'S PORTION OF HIS SUBSTANCE FOR THE BURNT OFFERINGS, TO WIT, FOR THE MORNING AND EVENING BURNT OFFERINGS, AND THE BURNT OFFERINGS FOR THE SABBATHS, AND FOR THE NEW MOONS, AND FOR THE SET FEASTS, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH, THAT DWELT IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, THEY ALSO BROUGHT IN THE TITHE OF OXEN AND SHEEP, AND THE TITHE OF HOLY THINGS WHICH WERE CONSECRATED UNTO THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND LAID THEM BY HEAPS._ And laid them by heaps. The contributions began to be sent in... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE THIRD MONTH THEY BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEAPS, AND FINISHED THEM IN THE SEVENTH MONTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HEZEKIAH QUESTIONED WITH THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES CONCERNING THE HEAPS._ Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. The object of his inquiries was to ascertain whether the supplies afforded the prospect of a sufficient maintenance for the members of the sac... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AZARIAH THE CHIEF PRIEST OF THE HOUSE OF ZADOK ANSWERED HIM, AND SAID, SINCE THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO BRING THE OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TO EAT, AND HAVE LEFT PLENTY: FOR THE LORD HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE; AND THAT WHICH IS LEFT IS THIS GREAT STORE._ Azariah ... answe... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HEZEKIAH COMMANDED TO PREPARE CHAMBERS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD; AND THEY PREPARED THEM,_ Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers - store-houses, granaries, or cellars. Either the old ones, which had been allowed through neglect to fall into decay, were to be repaired, or additional ones built... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BROUGHT IN THE OFFERINGS AND THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED THINGS FAITHFULLY: OVER WHICH CONONIAH THE LEVITE WAS RULER, AND SHIMEI HIS BROTHER WAS THE NEXT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THE GENEALOGY OF ALL THEIR LITTLE ONES, THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS, THROUGH ALL THE CONGREGATION: FOR IN THEIR SET OFFICE THEY SANCTIFIED THEMSELVES IN HOLINESS:_ For in their set office they sanctified themselves. This is the reason assigned for providing for the wive... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO OF THE SONS OF AARON THE PRIESTS, WHICH WERE IN THE FIELDS OF THE SUBURBS OF THEIR CITIES, IN EVERY SEVERAL CITY, THE MEN THAT WERE EXPRESSED BY NAME, TO GIVE PORTIONS TO ALL THE MALES AMONG THE PRIESTS, AND TO ALL THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGIES AMONG THE LEVITES._ No JFB commentary on thi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THUS DID HEZEKIAH THROUGHOUT ALL JUDAH, AND WROUGHT THAT WHICH WAS GOOD AND RIGHT AND TRUTH BEFORE THE LORD HIS GOD._ Hezekiah ... wrought that which was good and right. He displayed the qualities of a constitutional king, in restoring and upholding the ancient institutions of the kingdom, whi... [ Continue Reading ]