2 Chronicles 29:1-11
<03169> [A.M. 3278-3306. B.C. 726-698. Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias. Zechariah.]
[28:1 34:2 2Ki 18:3]
Of several of Hezekiah's predecessors it had been said that they did that which was right, but not like David, that is, not with David's integrity and zeal.
first ..... first <07223> [A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. He in the first.]
opened <06605> [opened.]
square .... east <07339 04217> [east street.]
consecrate ...... consecrate <06942> [sanctify now.]
consecrate ...... consecrate ... temple <06942 01004> [sanctify the house.]
Remove <03318> [carry forth.]
fathers <01> [For our fathers.]
abandoned .... turned away <05800 05437> [have forsaken him.]
turned away <05437> [turned away.]
rejected <06203 05414> [turned their backs. Heb. given the neck.]
Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.
angry <07110> [Wherefore.]
made <05414> [he hath delivered.]
It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners: see ch. 28:6-8.
<02189> [trouble. Heb. commotion.]
horror <08047> [to astonishment.]
fathers <01> [our fathers.]
intend <03824> [Now it is.]
make ... covenant <03772 01285> [to make a covenant.]
To renew that covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign, and the spirit of which was, "I will be your God, ye shall be my people."
raging <02740> [that his fierce.]
negligent <07952> [negligent. or, deceived.]
<03068> [the Lord]
offer <06999> [burn incense. or, offer sacrifice.]
