2 Kings 22:1-7. Josiah king of Judah. His good reign. He begins to repair the temple (2 Chronicles 34:1-13) 1. _Josiah_was _eight years old when he_began _to reign_ Called to the throne as such a mere child the new king must have been under some guardianship, and however good his natural desires ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it came to pass in the eighteenth year_ The Chronicler gives two dates anterior to this for events in the course of Josiah's life. He says (2 Chronicles 34:3-7 R.V.) -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 y... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hilkiah the high priest_ From 1 Chronicles 6:13 it seems that he was the son of Shallum, and judging from Ezra 7:1 he appears to have been an ancestor of Ezra. _that he may sum the silver_ R.V. MONEY. With a view to a restoration of the temple, a collection of money like that in the reign of Joash... [ Continue Reading ]
_into the hand of the doers of the work_ R.V. OF THE WORKMEN. Two sets of people are here both called -doers of the work" (R.V. WORKMEN), first, those who have the oversight, whom we should now call perhaps -contractors" or -architects": and secondly, the actual artificers, carpenters, &c. The forme... [ Continue Reading ]
ng justice. The preposition &b>nto" may be understood to mean, _either_that the governor's house was built on the wall, and that the restoration mentioned in this verse reached this point; _or_that the governor's -throne" was in the vicinity, and the restoration was carried on to a point over agains... [ Continue Reading ]