2 Chronicles 29:1-36

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11

Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns, was but eight, which occasioned the delay of the reformation; but Hezekiah had come to years, and so applied himself immediately to it. We may well think with what a sorrowful heart he beheld his father's idolatry and profaneness, how it troubled him to see the doors of the temple shut, though,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:12-19

We have here busy work, good work, and needful work, the cleansing of the house of the Lord. I. The persons employed in this work were the priests and Levites, who should have kept the temple clean, but, not having done that, were concerned to make it clean. Several of the Levites are here named, two of each of the three principal houses, Kohath, Gershon, and Merari (2 Chron. 29:12), and two of each of the three families of singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, 2 Chron. 29:13, 14. We cannot... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:20-36

The temple being cleansed, we have here an account of the good use that was immediately made of it. A solemn assembly was called to meet the king at the temple, the very next day (2 Chron. 29:20); and very glad, no doubt, all the good people in Jerusalem were, when it was said, Let us go up to the house of the Lord, Ps. 122:1. As soon as Hezekiah heard that the temple was ready for him he lost no time, but made it appear that he was ready for it. He rose early to go up to the house of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-2

Hezekiah began to reign ,.... Of these two verses; see Gill on 2 Kings 18:2 ; see Gill on 2 Kings 18:3 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:3

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month ,.... And, as appears from 2 Chronicles 29:17 , on the first day of the month: opened the doors of the house of the Lord ; which his father had shut, 2 Chronicles 28:24 . and repaired them ; or strengthened them, the hinges, and other parts of them, being loosened and weakened; and ornamented them by overlaying them with gold, the plates of which very probably his father had taken off; for, certain it is, Hezekiah overlaid... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:4

And he brought in the priests and Levites ,.... The persons that officiated in the service of the temple: and gathered them together into the east street ; which led to the eastern gate of the temple. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:5

And said unto them, hear me, ye Levites; sanctify yourselves ,.... By washing their bodies and their garments, that no pollution might attend them in their service, see Isaiah 52:11 . and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers ; by carrying out of it all manner of uncleanness, as they did, 2 Chronicles 29:16 , and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place ; or the abomination; the altar, like that at Damascus, which Ahaz, removing the altar of the Lord, had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:6

For our fathers have transgressed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God ,.... Meaning their more immediate ancestors, his father and theirs, who had committed idolatry; which is a great trespass, and than which there is not a greater evil in the sight of God, nor more provoking to him: and have forsaken him ; his word, worship, and ordinances: and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord ; the temple, by neglecting that, and the service of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:7

Also they have shut up the doors of the porch ,.... So that there was no entering into the temple, 2 Chronicles 28:24 . and put out the lamps ; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say F14 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. , that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:8

Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon. Judah and Jerusalem ,.... As appeared, by suffering the Syrians, and Israelites, and Edomites, and Philistines, to come upon them, and distress them, as the history of the preceding chapter shows: and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes ; such desolation and destruction were made among them, as not only threw them into a stupor, that they knew not what to do, but were amazing to all their... read more

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