And when they came... they delivered.And they came ... and they gave. In 2 Kings 22:3, the contents of 2 Chronicles 34:9 a are given in the form of the king’s instructions to Shaphan. Here we are told that those instructions were carried out. “They delivered (wayyittĕnû) is substituted for the difficult wĕyattçm of Kings (i.e., “and let him pay out”).

From the hand of Manasseh... Benjamin. — Kings, “from the people.” Reuss oddly imagines that these words denote “a kind of organised collection throughout all Palestine,” and then proceeds to draw an inference unfavourable to the chronicler.

And they returned to Jerusalem. — This is the meaning of the Qri or Hebrew margin. The Hebrew text has, “and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,” which is correct.

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