2 Kings 18:28
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
king ... king ... Assyria <04428 0804> [the king of Assyria.]
2 Kings 22:4
Hilkiah <02518> [Hilkiah.]
melt down <08552> [that he may.]
Ten years seem to have elapsed since the people began to present the accustomed offerings; yet no one had taken an account of them, nor were they applied to the purpose for which they were given.
melt down ... silver <03701 08552> [sum the silver.]
guards <08104> [the keepers.]
door <05592> [door. Heb. threshold.]
2 Kings 23:26
Lord's <03068> [Notwithstanding.]
<03708> [provocations. Heb. angers.]
2 Kings 8:13
dog <03611> [a dog.]
accomplish <06213> [he should do.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
2 Kings 12:10
royal <04428> [the king's.]
secretary <05608> [scribe. or, secretary. put up. Heb. bound up.]
bagged <06696> [in bags.]
Sir J. Chardin informs us, "it is a custom of Persia always to seal up bags of money; and the money of the king's treasure is not told, but is received by bags sealed up." These are what are called in the East purses; each of which, as Maillet informs us, contains money to the amount of 1,500 livres, or about 63Å“. of our money. The money thus collected for the reparation of the temple, seems, in like manner, to have been reckoned in bags of equal value to each other; as we can scarcely imagine the placing it in bags would otherwise have been mentioned. The value of a Jewish purse is unknown; but the bags mentioned in ch. 5:23, amounted to a talent.
2 Kings 18:19
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
He was the chief speaker, being a very eloquent man, and, according to the Hebrews, whom Procopius follows, an apostate Jew; which is not improbable, as he spoke Hebrew so fluently; and when he blasphemed the Divine Majesty, the king and nobles rent their clothes, which was usual unless the blasphemer were an Israelite.
said .... Tell <0559> [Thus saith.]
confidence <0986> [What confidence.]
2 Kings 22:8
found <04672> [I have found.]
This certainly was a genuine copy of the divine law, and probably the autograph of Moses, as it is said, in the parallel place of Chronicles, to be the book of the law of the Lord by Moses. It is not probable that this was the only copy of the law in the land, or that Josiah had never before seen the book of Moses; but the fact seems to be, that this was the original of the covenant renewed by Moses in the plains of Moab, and now being unexpectedly found, its antiquity, the occasion of its being made, the present circumstances of the people, the imperfect state in which the reformation was as yet, after all that had been done, would all concur to produce the effect here mentioned on the mind of the pious Josiah.
2 Kings 23:4
priest ... high-ranking priests <04932 03548> [priests of the second order.]
These were either such as occasionally supplied the high priest's office, or those of the second course or order established by David. See the References.
<08104> [the keepers.]
bring out <03318> [to bring.]
Baal <01168> [Baal.]
Kidron <06939> [Kidron.]
[Cedron. Beth-el.]
2 Kings 16:15
morning <01242> [the morning.]
King .............. burnt sacrifice ....... royal burnt sacrifices ...... burnt sacrifice .................... burnt sacrifice <04428 05930> [the king's burnt.]
<01239> [for me to enquire by.]
