And his princes... Levites.And his princes for a free-will offering (Leviticus 7:16) to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites had presented heave-offerings. How many victims they gave is not specified. Some words may have fallen out of the text. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 30:24.) Hilkiah is introduced quite abruptly in the text as it stands.

Rulers of the house of God.2 Chronicles 31:13; 1 Chronicles 9:11. Hilkiah was high priest (2 Chronicles 34:9); Zechariah perhaps his deputy, “the second priest” (2 Kings 25:18); Jehiel may have been the head of the line of Ithamar, which still existed even after the return (Ezra 8:2).

Oxen, i.e., “bullocks” (2 Chronicles 35:7).

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