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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

CRITICAL NOTES.] Hezekiah’s reign commenced and carried through four chapters in marked contrast with corresponding portion (2 Kings 18-20). The writer of Kings fixes on civil affairs—the two invasions of Sennacherib and on the embassy of Merodach-baladan, related at length, passing lightly and hastily over Hezekiah’s reformation (ch. 2 Chronicles 18:4-7), the author of Chron. gives a full account of this latter in three chapters (29–31), compressing into one (31) the whole that he has to say... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

Chapter 29Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years ( 2 Chronicles 29:1 )Now it is interesting to me that as wicked as was Ahaz, Hezekiah was a very good, spiritual king. Perhaps he saw the folly of his father. Perhaps he saw what his father's reign had done for the nation. But it is interesting how that such an ungodly man as Ahaz could have a son as Hezekiah who was so spiritual. And Hezekiah began to reign, but Hezekiah was strongly... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

2 Chronicles 29:1 . Five and twenty years old. Ahaz was twenty when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years. Now, imperfect years are not reckoned, as might be proved from several texts. Therefore Ahaz might be near twenty one years old on receiving the crown, and he might reign near seventeen years; yet after all, Ahaz must have been very much inclined to connubial pleasure to be a father at fourteen; and there is no doubt but he was immodest in early life. If this be not allowed,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11

2 Chronicles 29:1-11Hezekiah began to reign.Hezekiah’s reformationThe surroundings of Hezekiah in his youth seem, at first view, to have been unfavourable in the extreme. He was the son of a depraved father. He grew up at a corrupt court. Good kings and bad follow one another in very illogical succession. It must be that there is a self-acting power at the centre of every personal life. Let us cling to the belief, too, that, however vast the moral inequalities of human lives may be, no life is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:4

2Ch 29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, Ver. 4. The east street. ] Which was before the east gate of the temple. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Chronicles 29:4

east street: 2 Chronicles 32:6, Nehemiah 3:29, Jeremiah 19:2 Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:42 - General Joshua 3:8 - command 2 Kings 12:4 - said to the priests 1 Chronicles 15:12 - sanctify Nehemiah 12:27 - out Nehemiah 13:22 - I commanded Ezekiel 44:10 - the Levites read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Chronicles 29:4

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,And he brought in, … — He found Judah low and naked, yet did not make it his first business to revive the civil interests of his kingdom, but to restore religion to a good posture. Those that begin with God, begin at the right end of their work; and it will prosper accordingly. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:4

4. Into the east street Probably the same as “the street of the house of God,” (Ezra 10:9,) the broad open place before the temple, either in the outer court, or on the east of it. read more

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