_MOREOVER JOSIAH KEPT A PASSOVER UNTO THE LORD IN JERUSALEM: AND THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH._ Moreover Josiah kept a Passover - (see the notes at 2 Kings 23:21) The first 9 verses give an account of the preparations made for the celebration of the solemn feast... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SET THE PRIESTS IN THEIR CHARGES, AND ENCOURAGED THEM TO THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAID UNTO THE LEVITES THAT TAUGHT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH WERE HOLY UNTO THE LORD, PUT THE HOLY ARK IN THE HOUSE WHICH SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL DID BUILD; IT SHALL NOT BE A BURDEN UPON YOUR_ _ SHOULDERS: SERVE NOW THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL,_ Put the holy ark in the hous... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND PREPARE YOURSELVES BY THE HOUSES OF YOUR FATHERS, AFTER YOUR COURSES, ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF DAVID KING OF ISRAEL, AND ACCORDING TO THE WRITING OF SOLOMON HIS SON._ Prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses - i:e., each course or division was to be composed of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND STAND IN THE HOLY PLACE ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE FATHERS OF YOUR BRETHREN THE_ _ PEOPLE, AND AFTER THE DIVISION OF THE FAMILIES OF THE LEVITES._ Stand in the holy place - in the court of the priests, the place where the victims were killed. The people were admitted acc... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO KILL THE PASSOVER, AND SANCTIFY YOURSELVES, AND PREPARE YOUR BRETHREN, THAT THEY MAY DO ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE HAND OF MOSES._ So kill the Passover ... The design of the minute directions given here was to facilitate the distribution of the paschal lambs. These were to be eate... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSIAH GAVE TO THE PEOPLE, OF THE FLOCK, LAMBS AND KIDS, ALL FOR THE PASSOVER OFFERINGS, FOR ALL THAT WERE PRESENT, TO THE NUMBER OF THIRTY THOUSAND, AND THREE THOUSAND BULLOCKS: THESE WERE OF THE KING'S SUBSTANCE._ Josiah gave to the people ... lambs and kids - these were in all probability d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS PRINCES GAVE WILLINGLY UNTO THE PEOPLE, TO THE PRIESTS, AND TO THE LEVITES: HILKIAH AND ZECHARIAH AND JEHIEL, RULERS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, GAVE UNTO THE PRIESTS FOR THE PASSOVER OFFERINGS TWO THOUSAND AND_ _ SIX HUNDRED SMALL CATTLE, AND THREE HUNDRED OXEN._ His princes. They gave to the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_CONANIAH ALSO, AND SHEMAIAH AND NETHANEEL, HIS BRETHREN, AND HASHABIAH AND JEIEL AND JOZABAD, CHIEF OF THE LEVITES, GAVE UNTO THE LEVITES FOR PASSOVER OFFERINGS FIVE THOUSAND SMALL CATTLE, AND FIVE HUNDRED OXEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE SERVICE WAS PREPARED, AND THE PRIESTS STOOD IN THEIR PLACE, AND THE LEVITES IN THEIR COURSES, ACCORDING TO THE KING'S COMMANDMENT._ So the service was prepared ... All the necessary preparations having been completed, and the appointed time arrived for the Passover, the solemnity was celebr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER AND THE PRIESTS SPRINKLED THE BLOOD FROM THEIR HANDS AND THE LEVITES FLAYED_ _ AND THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER, AND THE PRIESTS SPRINKLED THE BLOOD FROM THEIR HANDS, AND THE LEVITES FLAYED THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY REMOVED THE BURNT OFFERINGS, THAT THEY MIGHT GIVE ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE, TO OFFER UNTO THE LORD, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF MOSES. AND SO DID THEY WITH THE OXEN._ They removed the burnt offerings. Some of the small cattle, being designed for burnt o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ROASTED THE PASSOVER WITH FIRE ACCORDING TO THE ORDINANCE: BUT THE OTHER HOLY OFFERINGS SOD THEY IN POTS, AND IN CALDRONS, AND IN PANS, AND DIVIDED THEM SPEEDILY AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE._ They roasted the Passover - (see Exodus 12:7.) This mode of preparation was prescribed by the law exclus... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTERWARD THEY MADE READY FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THE PRIESTS: BECAUSE THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF AARON WERE BUSIED IN OFFERING OF BURNT OFFERINGS AND THE FAT UNTIL NIGHT; THEREFORE THE LEVITES PREPARED FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF AARON._ Afterward they made ready for themselv... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SINGERS THE SONS OF ASAPH WERE IN THEIR PLACE, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF DAVID, AND ASAPH, AND HEMAN, AND JEDUTHUN THE KING'S SEER; AND THE PORTERS WAITED AT EVERY GATE; THEY MIGHT NOT DEPART FROM THEIR SERVICE; FOR THEIR BRETHREN THE LEVITES PREPARED FOR THEM._ And the singers ... w... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ALL THE SERVICE OF THE LORD WAS PREPARED THE SAME DAY, TO KEEP THE PASSOVER, AND TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS UPON THE ALTAR OF THE LORD, ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF KING JOSIAH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT KEPT THE PASSOVER AT THAT TIME, AND THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD SEVEN DAYS._ The children of Israel ... kept the Passover ... and the feast of unleavened bread seven days - х_ PECACH _ (H6453), a passing over]. At first the paschal lamb, and the pasch... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WAS NO PASSOVER LIKE TO THAT KEPT IN ISRAEL FROM THE DAYS OF SAMUEL THE PROPHET; NEITHER DID ALL THE KINGS OF ISRAEL KEEP SUCH A PASSOVER AS JOSIAH KEPT, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND ALL JUDAH AND ISRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT, AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM._ There was no Passover... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF JOSIAH WAS THIS PASSOVER KEPT._ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this Passover kept. 'It is said (2 Kings 22:3) that Josiah sent Shaphan to Hilkiah in the eighth month of that year.' If this statement rests upon a historical basis, all the ev... [ Continue Reading ]
_AFTER ALL THIS WHEN JOSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE NECHO KING OF EGYPT CAME UP TO FIGHT AGAINST_ _ AFTER ALL THIS, WHEN JOSIAH HAD PREPARED THE TEMPLE, NECHO KING OF EGYPT CAME UP TO FIGHT AGAINST CARCHEMISH BY EUPHRATES: AND JOSIAH WENT OUT AGAINST HIM._ After all this, when Josiah had prepared t... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HE SENT AMBASSADORS TO HIM, SAYING, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE, THOU KING OF JUDAH? I COME NOT AGAINST THEE THIS DAY, BUT AGAINST THE HOUSE WHEREWITH I HAVE WAR: FOR GOD COMMANDED ME TO MAKE HASTE: FORBEAR THEE FROM MEDDLING WITH GOD, WHO IS WITH ME, THAT HE DESTROY THEE NOT._ But he sent amb... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS JOSIAH WOULD NOT TURN HIS FACE FROM HIM, BUT DISGUISED HIMSELF, THAT HE MIGHT FIGHT WITH HIM, AND HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF NECHO FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD, AND CAME TO FIGHT IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO._ Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, х_ HITCHAPEES_ (H... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ARCHERS SHOT AT KING JOSIAH; AND THE KING SAID TO HIS SERVANTS, HAVE ME AWAY; FOR I AM SORE WOUNDED._ The archers shot at king Josiah - the Egyptian archers, whose accountrements, array, and mode of shooting, are familiarly known from the representations on the monuments.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS SERVANTS THEREFORE TOOK HIM OUT OF THAT CHARIOT, AND PUT HIM IN THE SECOND CHARIOT THAT HE HAD; AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, AND HE DIED, AND WAS BURIED IN ONE OF THE SEPULCHRES OF HIS FATHERS. AND ALL JUDAH AND JERUSALEM MOURNED FOR JOSIAH._ Took him out of that chariot, and put him in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEREMIAH LAMENTED FOR JOSIAH: AND ALL THE SINGING MEN AND THE SINGING WOMEN SPAKE OF JOSIAH IN THEIR LAMENTATIONS TO THIS DAY, AND MADE THEM AN ORDINANCE IN ISRAEL: AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMENTATIONS._ Jeremiah lamented for Josiah ... The elegy of the prophet has not reached us;... [ Continue Reading ]