2 Chronicles 35:1
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month. Ver. 1. _Moreover, Josiah kept a passover._] See on 2 Kings 23:21 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month. Ver. 1. _Moreover, Josiah kept a passover._] See on 2 Kings 23:21 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD, Ver. 2. _And he set the priests in their charges._] His idolatrous predecessors had put all out of order; and perhaps had made some priests that were not of the tribe of Levi, as Jeroboam had done.... [ 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, Ver. 3. _Put the holy ark i... [ 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. Ver. 4. _Prepare yourselves._] Heathens saw that God was not to be served, but by those who were οικοθεν παρασκευασμενοι, pr... [ 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. Ver. 5. _And stand in the holy place._] In the priests' court.... [ 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. Ver. 6. _Sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren._] Not by auricular confession, or the like; but by holy exhortations, to cast away the idols... [ 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. Ver. 7. _Of the flock, lambs and kids._] Either of these might by the law be o... [ 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. Ver. 8. _And his princes gave willi... [ 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. Ver. 9. _Five thousand small cattle._] See on 2 Chronicles 35:8. These Levites exceed... [ 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. Ver. 10. According to the king's commandment.] Kings in those days commanded the priests, as well as others, to do their duties. That great Heteroclite of Rome a... [ Continue Reading ]
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them]. Ver. 11. _And they killed the passover._] See 2 Chronicles 30:15. The Levites killed the bullocks, whereof see 2 Chronicles 35:7; but the paschal lamb, the most proper service of the... [ 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. Ver. 12. _To offer unto the Lord._] The burntofferings were wholly consumed on the a... [ 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. Ver. 13. _And they roasted the passover with fire._] To set forth Christ roasted for us in the fire... [ 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. Ver. 14. _And afterwards they made rea... [ 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._ Ver. 15. _Accordi... [ 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. Ver. 16. _Upon the altar of the Lord._] Which typified the godhead of Christ - not the cross properly - sanctifying t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. Ver. 17. _And the feast of unleavened bread._] See on 2 Chronicles 35:7 .... [ 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. Ver. 18. _And there was... [ Continue Reading ]
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. Ver. 19. _In the eighteenth year._] See 2 Kings 23:23 .... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Ver. 20. _After all this,_] viz, Thirteen years after the aforesaid passover. _ Necho king of Egypt,_] _i.e., _ Pharaoh with the goutish feet.... [ 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. Ver. 22. _Nevertheless Josiah, &c._] See 2 Kings 23:29. He should have considered t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. Ver. 23. _For I am sore wounded._] There wanted not those malignants, likely, that would say, It was just upon him for his foolhardiness and impiety in pulling down those things which his pr... [ 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. Ver. 24. _His servants therefore took him._]... [ 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. Ver. 25. _And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah._] Whose worth he had fully known;... [ Continue Reading ]