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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:28

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did. Josiah was reckoned a good rather than a great king. No mention is made of his "might." The writer of Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 35:26 ) commemorates his "kindnesses" or "his good deeds." The son of Sirach speaks of his "upright" behavior (Ecclesiasticus 49:2). Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,' 10.4. § 1) praises his "justice" and his "piety," and says (ibid; 10.4. § 5) his later years were passed "in peace and opulence." Are they not written... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:28-30

The events of Josiah's reign from his eighteenth to his thirty-first year are left a blank, both here and in Chronicles. Politically, the time was a stirring one. The great invasion of Western Asia by the Scythic hordes (Herod; 1.103-106), which is alluded to by Jeremiah 6:1-5 , Ezekiel 38:1-23 :39; and perhaps by Zephaniah 2:6 , probably belongs to it; as also the attack of Psamatik I. upon Philistia (Herod; 2.105), the fall of the Assyrian empire, and the destruction of Nineveh: the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29

In his days Pharaoh-Nechoh King of Egypt went up against the King of Assyria. Neku, the "Pharaoh-Nechoh" of this passage, and the Necos of Herodotus, was the son of Psamatik I and succeeded his father on the throne of Egypt, probably in B.C. 610. He was one of the most enterprising of the later Egyptian kings, and appears to have made this expedition in his second or third year. The unsettled condition of Western Asia after the Scythic invasion, and the fall of the Assyrian empire, seemed to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29-37

Pharaoh-Nechoh and the Jewish kings. A new power had risen in Egypt which was to play a temporary, but influential, part in the evolution of God's purposes towards Judah. Assyria was at this time in its death-agonies. The scepter of empire was soon to pass to Babylon. But it was Pharaoh-Nechoh who, following the designs of his own ambition, was to set in motion a train of events which had the effect of bringing Judah within the power of the King of Babylon. I. THE DEATH OF JOSIAH ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:30

And his servants carried him in a chariot —his "second chariot," according to the writer of Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 35:24 ), which was probably one kept in reserve in case flight should be necessary, of lighter construction, and drawn by fleeter horses, than his war-chariot— dead from Megiddo. Wounded to death, that is. From Chronicles we gather that his wound, which was from an arrow, was not immediately fatal ( 2 Chronicles 35:23 , 2 Chronicles 35:24 ); but that he died of it on... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:25

And like unto him ... - See 2 Kings 18:5 note. We must not press the letter of either passage, but regard both kings as placed among the very best of the kings of Judah. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:26

See the marginal references. True repentance might have averted God’s anger. But the people had sunk into a condition in which a true repentance was no longer possible. Individuals, like Josiah, were sincere, but the mass of the nation, despite their formal renewal of the covenant 2 Kings 23:3, and their outward perseverance in Yahweh-worship 2 Chronicles 34:33, had feigned rather than felt repentance. The earlier chapters of Jeremiah are full at once of reproaches which he directs against the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:27

It added to the guilt of Judah that she had had the warning of her sister Israel’s example, and had failed to profit by it. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:28

Josiah lived for 13 years after the celebration of his great Passover. Of this period we know absolutely nothing, except that in the course of it he seems to have submitted himself to Nabopolassar; who, after the fall of Nineveh, was accepted as the legitimate successor of the Assyrian monarchs by all the nations of the western coast. Josiah, after perhaps a little hesitation (see Jeremiah 2:18, Jeremiah 2:36), followed the example of his neighbors, and frankly accepted the position of an... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:29

Pharaoh-Nechoh - This king is well known to us both from profane historians, and from the Egyptian monuments. He succeeded his father Psammetichus (Psamatik) in the year 610 B.C., and was king of Egypt for 16 years. He was an enlightened and enterprising monarch. The great expedition here mentioned was an attempt to detach from the newly-formed Babylonian empire the important tract of country extending from Egypt to the Euphrates at Carchemish. Calculating probably on the friendship or... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:28

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:28-30

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29-37

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 23:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 23:29

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