Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 35:4
And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
4. by the houses of your fathers, after your courses ] R.V. after your fathers’ houses by your courses.
the writing of David ] Cp. 1Ch 23:27; 1Ch 28:19-21.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
4. prepare yourselves by the housesof your fathers, after your coursesEach course or division wasto be composed of those who belonged to the same fathers’ house.
according to the writing ofDavid and . . . SolomonTheir injunctions are recorded (2Ch 8:14;1Ch 23:1-26).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And prepare yourselves,…. To do their work in this service of the sanctuary, the passover; that they be ready to do it, and diligent in it, and perform it according to the law of God:
by the houses of your fathers, after your courses; such of them whose turn in course it was to officiate:
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son; who had given in writing directions in what manner their courses should be observed, see 1Ch 23:1.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(4) And prepare yourselves.The pronoun should not be italicised, for the verb is niphal or reflexive, and not hiphil or causative, as the Hebrew vowel points wrongly suggest.
By the houses of your fathers.According to your father-houses.
After your courses.In your divisions, (See 1 Chronicles 13-26)
According to the writing of David . . . Solomon his son.Comp. 1Ch. 28:19, where David refers to such a writing. The words seem to imply the existence of written memorials of the regulations of public worship, which David and Solomon instituted.
(Writing of David is kthb, a word only found in Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel and Esther. Writing of Solomon is miktab; see Exo. 32:16).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
4. According to the writing of David and of Solomon A written arrangement of the families and courses of the Levites which had been made by David and Solomon. Comp. 2Ch 8:14.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ch 35:4 And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
Ver. 4. Prepare yourselves. ] Heathens saw that God was not to be served, but by those who were , prepared aforehand. a Solon willed in his laws that the sacrifices should be chosen and selected, and the sacrificers should purify themselves some days before.
a Plutarch. Demosth.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the writing of David. Compare 1Ch 28:19; 1Ch 29:25, 1Ch 29:27, 1Ch 29:30.
the writing of Solomon. Compare 2Ch 8:14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the houses: 1Ch 9:10-34, Neh 11:10-20
after your courses: The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and Levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything: he merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: “the commandment of the king….was by the word of the Lord.” 1Ch 23:1 – 1Ch 26:32
and according: 2Ch 8:14
Reciprocal: 2Ch 5:11 – wait by course 2Ch 35:10 – the priests Ezr 6:18 – the priests