2 Chronicles 34:1-9
Josiah <02977> [A.M. 3363-3394. B.C. 641-610. Josiah.]
[Josias. eight years.]
approved <05869 03477> [right in the sight.]
deviate <05493> [declined.]
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]
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.]
burned <08313> [he.]
purified <02891> [cleansed.]
cities <05892> [in.]
ruins <02719> [mattocks. or, mauls.]
demolished <03807> [beaten.]
smashed <01854> [into powder. Heb. to make powder. he returned.]
eighteenth <08083> [A.M. 3380. B.C. 624. the eighteenth.]
sent Shaphan <08227 07971> [sent Shaphan.]
Maaseiah <04641> [Maaseiah.]
[recorded.]
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.
