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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:32

And Benjamin - It is scarcely possible that the text here can be sound. “Benjamin” is never put in contrast with “Jerusalem,” but always with Judah. The reading may be corrected from the parallel passage 2 Kings 23:3; “And he caused all those that were present in Jerusalem to stand to the covenant.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 34:32-33

2 Chronicles 34:32-33. He caused all present to stand to it He caused them to engage by an oath or covenant, that they would observe the laws of God, as his predecessors had formerly done, and which indeed they were before obliged to do. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant, &c. They complied with God’s and the king’s command, as to the outward acts of God’s worship, though not with an upright and renewed heart, as appears by the history. To serve, even to serve... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

The final reform (34:1-35:27)Another reform swept Judah during the reign of Josiah (34:1-33; see notes on 2 Kings 22:1-23:20). As with the reform of Hezekiah, the climax in the eyes of the Chronicler was a great Passover Feast in Jerusalem.After returning the ark to its rightful place in the temple, the priests and Levites prepared themselves for their duties. Josiah arranged them in divisions as Hezekiah had done earlier, so that the music, singing, sacrifices and other rituals could be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 34:31

stood in his place; or stood on his stand. Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ). a = the. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

1. Josiah’s reforms ch. 34The godly in Judah may have regarded Josiah as the most likely candidate to fulfill the promises God had given to David. His early life and reign were spiritually exemplary (2 Chronicles 34:2-3). He sought to purge idolatry from the whole territory of Israel as well as Judah (2 Chronicles 34:4-7). Many of the Simeonites (2 Chronicles 34:6) had allied themselves with Israel religiously (cf. 2 Chronicles 15:9). [Note: Keil, p. 431.] In Jerusalem, Josiah embarked on a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

Reign of JosiahThe chapter narrates how Josiah suppressed idolatry and repaired the Temple; how a book of the Law, found in the Temple, was read to the king and the people; and how the nation’s covenant with the Lord was renewed.This chapter and the following are, in general, parallel to 2 Kings 22, 2 Kings 23:1-30 with some unimportant variants; but the Chronicler gives more prominence than the writer of 2 Kings to the passover celebrated by Josiah.3. In the twelfth year] In 2 Ki the abolition... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 34:29-33

(29-33) The king reads the Book to the assembly, and renews the covenant. (Comp. 2 Kings 23:1) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 34:31

(31) In his place.—‘Al ‘omdô, “on his stand;” 2 Chronicles 23:13 (Authorised Version, “at his pillar”). Kings has ‘al hâ’ammûd, which appears to be synonymous; “on the dais.”A covenant.—The covenant. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 34:32

(32) And he caused . . . stand to it.—Kings, “and all the people stood into (i.e., came into) the covenant.” So Syriac: “And everyone that was found in Jerusalem and in Benjamin rose, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem entered into the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers.” (The chronicler’s reading may be accounted for by the fact that the verbs “he stood and” he caused to stand “differ only in the vowels, which anciently were not written at all. “All that were present in Jerusalem and... read more

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