Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Chronicles 29:17
The first day — A happy beginning of the new year! Thus should every year begin with the reformation of what is amiss, and the purging away of all the defilements contracted the foregoing year.
The first day — A happy beginning of the new year! Thus should every year begin with the reformation of what is amiss, and the purging away of all the defilements contracted the foregoing year.
Verse 2 Chronicles 29:17. _ON THE FIRST_ DAY] "They began on the first day of the first month Nisan." - _Targum_....
6. REFORMATION UNDER HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 29 Hezekiah and the Beginning of the Revival _ 1. The record of his reign (2 Chronicles 29:1)_ 2. The purification of the temple (2 Chronicles 29:3) 3. The re...
THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH. Note the six events which took place on that day (Genesis 8:13)....
_to sanctify … so they sanctified_ Two periods of eight days each were spent in "sanctifying," the courts apparently occupying eight days and the house itself eight days. _in the sixteenth day_ The L...
14. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (29-32) TEXT 2 Chronicles 29:1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was A...
_AND OF THE SONS OF ELIZAPHAN; SHIMRI, AND JEIEL: AND OF THE SONS OF ASAPH; ZECHARIAH, AND MATTANIAH:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH This chapter describes a cleansing of the TEMPLE and a sacrifice for the sins of the people. This and the following 2 Chronicles 30-32, cover the same period as 2 Kings 18-20,...
THE SIXTEENTH DAY] In the first period of 8 days the Temple itself was cleansed, in the second period the Temple court (where the altar of burnt offering was: 2 Chronicles 29:18)....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 29 HEZEKIAH ORGANISES *WORSHIP IN THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 29:1-36...
The time the work took. Beginning on the 1st of Nisan with the purification of the courts, they had cleansed them by the 8th of the month, and “came to the porch of the Lord,” _i.e.,_ to the entry of...
וַ֠ יָּחֵלּוּ בְּ אֶחָ֞ד לַ † חֹ֣דֶשׁ...
HEZEKIAH: THE RELIGIOUS VALUE OF MUSIC 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
REMOVING UNCLEANNESS 2 Chronicles 29:12 The names of the assisting Levites are specially mentioned, because their obedient cooperation counted for so much in the national reconstruction. For eight da...
With the accession of Hezekiah a great change came over the life of Judah. Among all the reformers he was perhaps the most remarkable. That this was so in spite of the fact that he was the son of Ahaz...
Now they began on the first [day] of the (g) first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and...
_Month, Nisan, corresponding with our March, (M.) when Ezechias began his reign. Salien, the year of the world 3309._...
The purification of the house of the Lord may serve to remind us of the yet more infinitely important work of God the Holy Ghost in his cleansing work of the heart by his power. - What a sweet scriptu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 THROUGH 31. Jotham, the son of Uzziah, walks uprightly; and he avoids his father's fault; but the people are still corrupt. Nevertheless the faithfulness...
NOW THEY BEGAN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH TO SANCTIFY,.... Either of the reign of King Hezekiah, or rather of the year; the month Ab or Nisan, as the Targum expresses it: AND ON THE EIGHTH O...
Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in...
_Now they began on the first day of the first month_ A happy beginning of the new year! Thus should every year begin with a reformation of what is amiss, and the purging away of all the defilements co...
1 Hezekiah his good reigne. 3 He restoreth Religion. 5 He exhorteth the Leuites. 12 They sanctifie themselues, and cleanse the house of God. 20 Hezekiah offereth solemne sacrifices, wherein the Le...
HEZEKIAH RESTORES THE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH...
Now, they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord; so long it took them to remove the accumulated filth of the cour...
HEZEKIAH MADE KING (vv.1-2) Hezekiah took the place of Ahaz in reigning over Judah at the age of 25 years. His mother's name, Abijah, is told us. She must have been a far different character than he...
1-19 When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs u...
In sixteen days purging the house, and porch, and courts, and all the chambers belonging to the temple. This is noted to imply partly the universal abuse and defilement of all the parts of it by Ahaz,...
2 Chronicles 29:17 began H2490 (H8686) sanctify H6942 (H8763) first H259 first H7223 month H2320 eighth H808
FIRST MONTH That is, April....
CONTENTS: Hezekiah's reign in Judah and the revival. Temple restored. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: Those who begin with God begin at the right end of their work and will prosper accordingl...
2 Chronicles 29:1. _Five and twenty years old._ Ahaz was twenty when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years. Now, imperfect years are not reckoned, as might be proved from several texts. Ther...
_Now they began on the first day of the first month _ A NEW YEAR IN JERUSALEM Let us consider-- I. The work done (2 Chronicles 29:18). What a grand work of an analogous character is thereby suggeste...
2 CHRONICLES 29:1 Hezekiah. The Chronicler devotes more attention to Hezekiah’s reign (715–687 B.C.) than to that of any other king since David and Solomon. 2 Kings 18:1 concentrates mainly on
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 29:16 The work of cleansing the temple took two weeks, until the SIXTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH, two days past the proper date of Passover (see...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Hezekiah’s reign commenced and carried through four Chapter s in marked contrast with corresponding portion (2 Kings 18-20). The writer of Kings fixes on civil affairs—the two invasio...
EXPOSITION The important reign of Hezekiah extends over this and the following three chapters, counting in all ninety-seven verses. The parallel, for the contents of the first three of these chapters,...
Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years (2 Chronicles 29:1) Now it is interesting to me that as wicked as was Ahaz, Hezekiah was a very good, sp...
1 Chronicles 28:11; 1 Kings 6:3; 2 Chronicles 29:7; 2 Chronicles 3:4;...