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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:20-27

It was thirteen years from Josiah's famous passover to his death. During this time, we may hope, thing went well in his kingdom, that he prospered, and religion flourished; yet we are not entertained with the pleasing account of those years, but they are passed over in silence, because the people, for all this, were not turned from the love of their sins nor God from the fierceness of his anger. The next news therefore we hear of Josiah is that he is cut off in the midst of his days and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:22

Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn his face from him ,.... Or withdraw his forces, and go back: but disguised himself that he might fight with him ; without being personally known, and aimed at, see 1 Kings 22:30 . and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God : not believing that what he said came from the Lord, though it might; and his infirmity was, that he did not inquire of the Lord about it: and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo ; which was in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:23

And the archers shot at King Josiah ,.... For, though disguised, he appeared to be a general officer, and indeed chief commander, and therefore aimed at him, and pressed him hard: and the king said to his servants, have me away, for I am wounded ; as Ahab said, when in the like case, 1 Kings 22:34 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:24

And his servants therefore took him out of that chariot ,.... Dead, and had him to Jerusalem, and buried him; See Gill on 2 Kings 23:30 , and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah ; he having been so good a king, so tender of them, and such an happy instrument in restoring the true religion, and the service of God; this was the sense of the generality of them, who were sincere in their mourning; but it is not improbable that those who were inclined to idolatry were secretly glad,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah ,.... Composed a lamentation for him, which is now lost; for what is said in Lamentations 4:20 respects Zedekiah, and not Josiah: and all the singing men, and all the singing women, spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day ; who were made use of on mournful occasions, as the "preficae" among the Romans, see Jeremiah 9:17 these in their mournful ditties used to make mention of his name, and the disaster that befell him: and made them an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 35:26-27

His piety towards God, and liberality to the people; of these two verses; see Gill on 2 Kings 23:28 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:24

The second chariot - Perhaps this means no more than that they took Josiah out of his own chariot and put him into another, either for secrecy, or because his own had been disabled. The chariot into which he was put might have been that of the officer or aid-de-camp who attended his master to the war. See the note on 2 Kings 22:20 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:25

Behold , they are written in the lamentations - The Hebrews had poetical compositions for all great and important events, military songs, songs of triumph, epithalamia or marriage odes, funeral elegies, etc. Several of these are preserved in different parts of the historical books of Scripture, and these were generally made by prophets or inspired men. That composed on the tragical end of this good king by Jeremiah is now lost. The Targum says, "Jeremiah bewailed Josiah with a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 35:27

And his deeds , first and last - "The former things which he did in his childhood, and the latter things which he did in his youth; and all the judgments which he pronounced from his eighth year, when he came to the kingdom, to his eighteenth, when he was grown up, and began to repair the sanctuary of the Lord; and all that he brought of his substance to the hand of judgment, purging both the house of Israel and Judah from all uncleanness; behold, they are written in the book of... read more

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