2 Chronicles 31:1-21
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's reorganisation of the Temple service.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CONTINUED) This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's reorganisation of the Temple service.... [ Continue Reading ]
APPOINTED THE COURSES] The succession (see 1 Chronicles 23-26) had been suspended during the idolatry of the previous reigns, and required to be rearranged. THE TENTS OF THE LORD] The phrase is borrowed from the conditions that prevailed in the wilderness.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING'S PORTION, etc.] The king set an example to his subjects by providing for the Sacrifices named, for which see Numbers 28:29, whilst the people were required to support the priests (according to Numbers 18).... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT DWELT IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH] The provincial population, as distinguished from the inhabitants of the capital. THE TITHE OF HOLY THINGS] The words tithe of have been accidentally repeated from the preceding; they are omitted in 2 Chronicles 31:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAMBERS] i.e. some of the side chambers that surrounded the Temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOWARD THE EAST] RV 'at the east _gate_': cp. 1 Chronicles 26:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO GIVE to THEIR BRETHREN] The general sense of 2 Chronicles 31:15 is that the officers named in 2 Chronicles 31:15 distributed to all the priests who dwelt in the priestly cities a share of the people's offerings, those alone being excluded from sharing, who, whilst in their courses at Jerusalem, w... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDE] i.e. excepting. Genealogy] i.e. list.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO OF THE SONS OF AARON, etc.] The meaning is that the six persons named in 2 Chronicles 31:15 furnished support to the priests and Levites who dwelt outside the cities, as well as to those who dwelt within them.... [ Continue Reading ]