2 Chronicles 34:1-18

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Josiah <02977> [A.M. 3363-3394. B.C. 641-610. Josiah.]

[Josias. eight years.]

34:2

approved <05869 03477> [right in the sight.]

deviate <05493> [declined.]

34:3

young <05288> [A.M. 3370. B.C. 634. while he.]

seek <01875> [to seek.]

ridding <02891> [purge.]

high places <01116> [the high places.]

[See on]

34:4

ordered <05422> [brake down.]

incense altars ........... idols ... images <02553 06456 04541> [images. or, sun images.]

crushed <01854> [made dust.]

tombs <06913> [graves. Heb. face of the graves.]

34:5

burned <08313> [he.]

purified <02891> [cleansed.]

34:6

cities <05892> [in.]

ruins <02719> [mattocks. or, mauls.]

34:7

demolished <03807> [beaten.]

smashed <01854> [into powder. Heb. to make powder. he returned.]

34:8

eighteenth <08083> [A.M. 3380. B.C. 624. the eighteenth.]

sent Shaphan <08227 07971> [sent Shaphan.]

Maaseiah <04641> [Maaseiah.]

[recorded.]

34:9

Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]

gave <05414> [they delivered.]

Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]

<07725> [and they returned.]

Instead of {wyyashuvoo}, "and they returned," as the Keri has, we should, with the Kethiv, read {weyoshevey,} "and the inhabitants of;" a reading which is supported by many MSS,; printed editions, and all the versions, as well as necessity and common sense.

34:10

handed <03027> [in the hand.]

34:11

rafters <07136> [floor. or, rafter. the kings.]

34:12

faithfully <0530> [faithfully.]

skilled <0995> [all.]

skilled <0995> [skill.]

The verb skill is now obsolete: the meaning is, "every one who is skilful, {maiveen,} on instruments of music."

34:13

laborers <05449> [the bearers.]

Levites <03881> [and of the Levites.]

scribes <05608> [scribes.]

officials <07860> [officers.]

guards <07778> [porters.]

34:14

Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]

scroll <05612> [a book.]

Literally, "a book of the law of the Lord, by the hand of Moses," i.e, as Dr. Kennicott understands it, "in the handwriting of Moses;" for, says he, though there are fifteen places in the Old Testament which mention the "Law of Moses," and "book of Moses," yet this one place only mentions "the book of the law in, or by, the hand of Moses."

law <08451> [the law.]

Moses <04872> [Moses. Heb. the hand of Moses.]

34:16

Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]

servants <05650> [thy servants. Heb. the hand of thy servants.]

34:17

melted <05413> [And they.]

melted <05413> [gathered together. Heb. poured out, or melted.]

34:18

Shaphan ............... Shaphan read <08227 07121> [And Shaphan read.]

before <06440> [it. Heb. in it.]