CONTENTS
This chapter concludes the history of Josiah. He keeps a solemn pass
over. He goes to battle at Magiddo, and is slain. Is deeply lamented
at his funeral by his people.
2 Chronicles 35:1
The passover which Josiah observed is mentioned in the parallel
history, 2 Kings 23:1; but not so parti... [ Continue Reading ]
First; the ministry of the priests and Levites being arranged, we find
the placing the ark, taking up the most important concern, as
preparatory to the service. Jesus must be first beheld in the
believer's view, as the grand object of all, - the altar, the
sacrifice, and the priests; for it is by vi... [ Continue Reading ]
The offerings of the people very properly came next in order,
preparatory to the service. The Lord will be sanctified in all that
draw nigh unto him. Leviticus 10:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matters being thus prepared, the service began. And let not the Reader
overlook the employment of the priests, who it is said were busied in
offering burnt-offerings and the fat until night. The sufferings of
Jesus opened at the evening if we take in the garden scene, which as
it formed so interesti... [ Continue Reading ]
What an high encomium is this in the character of Josiah! and what a
proof of the faith of Josiah's mind which he had with an eye to
Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here, as in all men, a shade to the character of Josiah. The
sequel in Josiah's death proves that what Necho, king of Egypt, told
Josiah, was well founded. Such a message therefore he ought to have
regarded. But Josiah is in this instance a renewed evidence of the
universal corruption of hum... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here introduced to us Jeremiah, whose prophetical writings
make so important a part in the sacred canon of scripture. This
prophet began his ministry in the 13th year of Josiah, and continued
it until the carrying away of the people into Babylon. The character
of Josiah cannot be better asce... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! in the view of this passover, and the religious observance of
it by the whole kingdom of Judah, let you and I learn to prize our
gospel privileges. They had the shadow, we have the substance. They
looked to good things to come; we celebrate mercies fulfilled. They
looked through... [ Continue Reading ]