Bible Commentary

Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters. 13. were overseers of all that wrought the work ] R.V. set forward all that did the work. in any manner ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:13”

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music. 12. the overseers ] There … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:12”

Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. 11. to the artificers and builders ] R.V. to the carpenters and to the builders. to floor ] R.V. to make beams for. the houses ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:11”

And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house: 10. put it in ] R.V. delivered it into. and they gave it to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:10”

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:9”

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 8 28 (= 2Ki 22:3-20). Repair of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:8”

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. 7. And when all the idols ] R.V. And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:7”

And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 6. Simeon ] Here as in 2Ch 15:9 regarded as belonging to the Northern tribes, but their cities were in the south; cp. 1Ch 4:28 ff. with their mattocks ] R.V. in their ruins … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:6”

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 5. he burnt the bones of the priests ] Specially at Beth-el; 2Ki 23:15-16. cleansed ] R.V. purged (as in 2Ch 34:3; 2Ch 34:8). Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse 5. He burnt the bones of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:5”

And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strewed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 34:4”