2 Chronicles 35:19
2 Chronicles 35:26
faithful <02617> [goodness. Heb. kindness.]
2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah <02977> [A.M. 3363-3394. B.C. 641-610. Josiah.]
[Josias. eight years.]
2 Chronicles 35:1
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness according to the law, and upon that account there was none like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover there were several irregularities. Bp. Patrick observes, that in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as David, or Solomon, or Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was more than any king ever did before.
fourteenth <0702> [the fourteenth.]
Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely alluded to at 2 Ki 23:21, is very particularly related her, while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the Kings, and here only touched upon. The feasts of the Lord God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but the passover was the chief. It was the first which was solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and ushered in those which were afterwards instituted: and it was the last great feast which was held in the night wherein Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in twain. Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah revived religion in their day.
2 Chronicles 35:23
Archers shot <03384> [the archers.]
wounded <02470> [wounded. Heb. made sick.]
2 Chronicles 36:1
people <05971> [the people.]
Jehoahaz <03059> [Jehoahaz.]
2 Chronicles 35:20
temple <01004> [A.M. 3394. B.C. 610. temple. Heb. house. Necho.]
Pharaoh, the lame, says the Targumist.
[Pharaoh-necho.]
[Charchemish.]
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
singers <07891> [all the singing.]
become customary <05414 02706> [and made them.]
2 Chronicles 33:25
executed <05221> [slew.]
people .............. they <05971> [the people.]
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
2 Chronicles 35:16
2 Chronicles 34:33
removed ..................................... aside <05493> [took away.]
detestable <08441> [the abominations.]
rest .... reign <03117> [all his days.]
following <0310> [from following. Heb. from after.]
2 Chronicles 35:7
Josiah <02977> [Josiah.]
supplied <07311> [gave. Heb. offered.]
30,000 ............ 3,000 <0505 07970> [thirty thousand.]
According to the calculation, that not fewer than ten, nor more than twenty persons, were to join for one kid or lamb, the numbers given on this occasion would suffice for above 400,000 persons.
royal <07399 04428> [the king's substance.]
2 Chronicles 35:18
Passover .......................... Passover <06453> [there was no passover.]
Not one on purer principles, more heartily joined in by the people present, more literally or exactly consecrated, according to the law, or more religiously observed. The words do not refer to the number present, but to the manner and spirit.
this had .... observed ................. had observed ....... celebrated <06213> [neither did.]
2 Chronicles 35:22
Josiah <02977> [Nevertheless.]
Josiah's conduct in this affair has been treated with great severity; and he has been charged with engaging rashly in an unjust war, and disregarding the express command of God. But Scripture no where condemns him; and Pharaoh, in marching through Josiah's territories, against his will, certainly committed an act of hostility. It is evident that Josiah was in possession of the whole land of Israel (ch. 26:6); and probably he held the northern parts of it as a grant from the king of Babylon; and was not only in alliance with him, but bound to guard his frontiers against hostile invaders. He may, therefore, be fairly justified from the charge of unjustly meddling in a war that did not belong him. It is true the ambassadors assured Josiah, that "God had commanded Pharaoh to make haste;" and he is therefore said not to have "hearkened to the words of Necho, from the mouth of God." But Necho produced no proof that he was a prophet of Jehovah; and the word he employed, {elohim,} may denote gods or idols; and critics have noticed that the expression, "from the mouth of God," is not used when the true God is meant.
disguised <02664> [but disguised.]
<06310> [the mouth.]
Megiddo <04023> [Megiddo.]
[Megiddon.]
[Armageddon.]
2 Chronicles 35:24
another <04932> [the second.]
<03212> [they.]
died <04191> [died.]
tombs <06913> [in one of the. or, among the.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
