John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:11
My sons ,.... So, as the father of his people, he speaks of them in the most tender and affectionate manner: be not now negligent ; backward to this good work, slothful, sluggish, and remiss in it; according to Jarchi and Kimchi, the word has the signification of error, and the sense may be, do not continue in the error in which you have been, in neglecting the service of God: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and... read more
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