2 Chronicles 35:1
2 Chronicles 35:1-19 (Esther 1:1; Esther 1:1-22; cp. 2 Kings 23:21-23). Josiah's Passover 1. _Moreover Josiah_ R.V. AND JOSIAH. _the first month_ The legal month; cp. 2 Chronicles 30:2 (with note).... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Chronicles 35:1-19 (Esther 1:1; Esther 1:1-22; cp. 2 Kings 23:21-23). Josiah's Passover 1. _Moreover Josiah_ R.V. AND JOSIAH. _the first month_ The legal month; cp. 2 Chronicles 30:2 (with note).... [ Continue Reading ]
_in their charges_ i.e. at their duties. _encouraged them_ As Hezekiah had done; cp. 2 Chronicles 29:5-11; 2 Chronicles 30:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
_that taught all Israel_ Cp. Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 8:9; also (perhaps) 2 Chronicles 30:22, A.V.... [ Continue Reading ]
_by the houses of your fathers, after your courses_ R.V. AFTER YOUR FATHERS" HOUSES BY YOUR COURSES. _the writing of David_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 23:27; 1 Chronicles 28:19-21.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of the families of the fathers_ R.V. OF THE FATHERS" HOUSES. _the people_ R.V. THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE, i.e. the laity. The same phrase is translated in 2 Kings 23:6 "the common people" (without any invidious meaning). _and_after _the division of the families of the Levites_ R.V. AND LET THERE... [ Continue Reading ]
_prepare your brethren that_they _may do_ R.V. PREPARE FOR YOUR BRETHREN, TO DO. Cp. 2 Chronicles 35:12-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
_gave_ R.V. mg., GAVE FOR OFFERINGS; cp. 2 Chronicles 30:24, (R.V.) where it is said that Hezekiah did the same at his great Passover. _to the people_ R.V. TO THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE (as in 2 Chronicles 35:5, see note). _for all_ R.V. UNTO ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
_willingly_ The A.V. is better here than the R.V. ("for a free will offering"). _rulers of the house of God_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 9:11, note.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Conaniah … and Shemaiah_ Perhaps the "Conaniah and Shimei his brother" of 2 Chronicles 31:12, and so _Jozabad_may be the "Jozabad" of 2 Chronicles 31:13. If this be so, the names represent families rather than individuals, for nearly sixty years separate the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah. _chief_... [ Continue Reading ]
_in their courses_ R.V. BY THEIR COURSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_sprinkled_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 29:22, note. _from their hands_ R.V. WHICH THEY RECEIVED OF THEIR HAND; cp. 2 Chronicles 30:16. _the Levites flayed_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 29:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
_that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people_ R.V. THAT THEY MIGHT GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE FATHERS" HOUSES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the ordinance_ Exodus 12:9. _but the_other _holy_offerings] R.V. AND THE HOLY OFFERINGS. The bullocks mentioned in 2 Chronicles 35:7-9. They would not be slain on the Passover day itself, but on the days which immediately followed. _divided_them _speedily among all the people_ R.V. CARRIED THEM Q... [ Continue Reading ]
_of burnt offerings_ R.V. THE BURNT OFFERINGS. _the fat_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 7:7, note; 2 Chronicles 29:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the singers_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 25:1 ff. waited _at every gate; they might not depart_ R.V. WERE AT EVERY GATE: THEY NEEDED NOT TO DEPART.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the same day_ Lit. "on that day," i.e. the fourteenth of Nisan.... [ Continue Reading ]
_there was no passover_ Cp. what is said of Hezekiah's Passover, 2 Chronicles 30:26. _from the days of Samuel_ Perhaps in allusion to 1 Samuel 9:12-13, though there is no word there to identify the feast mentioned with the Passover. In 2 Kings 23:22 "from the days of the judges.... [ Continue Reading ]
_in the eighteenth year_ Cp. 2 Chronicles 34:8; 2 Kings 23:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Necho_ R.V. NECO. This was Neco II. (reigned 611 595 b.c., Maspero, _Histoire Ancienne_, p. 545, note), who according to Herodotus (II. 159) conquered the "Syrians" (Jews _or_Assyrians?) at "Magdol" (Megiddo _or_Magdol near the Pelusiac mouth of the Nile?) and then captured Cadytis (Kadesh on the O... [ Continue Reading ]
(1Es 1:25-31; cp. 2 Kings 23:29-30). The Death of Josiah The account of Josiah's death is very much fuller in Chron. than in Kings. The features which are peculiar to the Chronicler are, (1) Neco's message to dissuade Josiah from war, (2) Josiah's disguising himself and coming to fight _in the vall... [ Continue Reading ]
_against the house wherewith I have war_ In 1Es 1:27 there is a different reading "My war is upon Euphrates." _commanded_ R.V. HATH COMMANDED.... [ Continue Reading ]
_disguised himself_ Josiah, like Ahab (2 Chronicles 18:29), took the warning so far seriously as to think that his life was in danger and that he would be safer fighting in disguise. The ἐκραταιώθη ("was strengthened") of the LXX. represents an inferior reading. _the valley of Megiddo_ Cp. Judges 5... [ Continue Reading ]
_the archers shot_ Cp. the death of Ahab, 2 Chronicles 18:33. 1Es 1:29 has an inferior reading, viz. "the princes came down against king Josias.... [ Continue Reading ]
_His servants therefore took him out of_that _chariot_ R.V. SO HIS SERVANTS TOOK HIM OUT OF THE CHARIOT. _the second chariot_ War chariots were small, with (apparently) only standing room for their occupants; see the illustrations of Egyptian and Assyrian chariots given in Smith's _Bib. Dict._s.v.... [ Continue Reading ]
(1Es 1:32; not in 2 Kin.). The Lamentations for Josiah 25. _lamented_ i.e. "composed (_or_uttered) an elegy." The Heb. word (_ḳônçn_) suggests formal composition, and the actual words of lamentation are often given; 2 Samuel 1:17 ff; 2 Samuel 3:33-34; Ezekiel 27:32; Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 32:16. _a... [ Continue Reading ]
(1Es 1:33; 2 Kings 23:25; 2 Kings 23:28). The Epilogue of Josiah's Reign 26. _his goodness_ R.V. HIS GOOD DEEDS; cp. 2 Chronicles 32:32. _according to that which was_( IS) _written_ Cp. the strong terms used in 2 Kings 23:25, "like unto him was no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all... [ Continue Reading ]