Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. Ver. 1. _Josiah was eight years old._] Woe to that land whose prince is a child, saith Solomon; Ecc 10:16 but Josiah was an extraordinary child, and a great blessing to his people. So was our Edwa... [ Continue Reading ]
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left. Ver. 2. _And he did that which was right._] See 2 Kings 22:2 .... [ Continue Reading ]
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. Ver. 3. _For in the eighth year of his r... [ Continue Reading ]
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. V... [ Continue Reading ]
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. Ver. 5. _And he burnt the bones._] That those altars might be defiled, discredited, and abhorred for ever. _ He cleansed Judah and Jerusalem._] Cleansed it as well as he could; bringing them to an outward co... [ Continue Reading ]
And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. Ver. 6. _And so did he in the cities of Manasseh._] Wherever he had to do; and in all places else where he could come; so great was his zeal, so diffusive his charity.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. Ver. 7. _And when he had broken._] See 2 Chronicles 34:4 . _ And cut down all the images._] Which have their... [ Continue Reading ]
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. Ver. 8. _Now in the eighteenth year._] See on 2 Kings 22:... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem._... [ Continue Reading ]
And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: Ver. 10. _And they put it in the hand._] See on 2 Kings 22:5 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. Ver. 11. _Even to the artificeres, &c._] See on 2 Kings 22:6 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick. Ver. 12. _The men... [ Continue Reading ]
Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters. Ver. 13. _Also they were over the bearers of burdens._] To see they did their work carefully; and to make the... [ Continue Reading ]
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses. 2Ch 34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered th... [ Continue Reading ]
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do [it]. Ver. 16. _And Shaphan carried the book._] See 2 Kings 22:10 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. Ver. 17-21. See on 2 Kings 22:9,12 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that [effect]. Ver. 22-26. See 2 Kings 22:14,18 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD. Ver. 27. _B... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. Ver. 28. _Behold, I will gather thee._] See 2 Kings 22... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. Ver. 29-33. See 2 Kings 23:1,3, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. Ver. 33. _And... [ Continue Reading ]