2 Chronicles 34:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:8-13

Here, 1. Orders are given by the king for the repair of the temple, 2 Chron. 34:8. When he had purged the house of the corruptions of it he began to fit it up for the services that were to be performed in it. Thus we must do by the spiritual temple of the heart, get it cleansed from the pollutions of sin, and then renewed, so as to be transformed into the image of God. Josiah, in this order, calls God the Lord his God. Those that truly love God will love the habitation of his house. 2. Care is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:13

Also they were over the bearers of burdens ,.... Who carried the timber and stones to the workmen, to look after them, that they were not dilatory, and that the workmen might not stand still for want of materials being brought to them to work with: and were overseers over all that wrought in any manner of service ; whether in the way of masonry, or in that of carpenters, or of such that served them, or in whatsoever way: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

The reign of Josiah-its unexpected boon, in a republication of revealed religion, with the legitimate and happy results following thereupon. In the reign and person of Josiah, once more and for the last time in the now numbered years of the kingdom of Judah, the light of piety and "goodness" flickered up in the socket. His reign began when his yearn numbered but eight; it lasted thirty-one years. Four reigns succeeded his to the date of the destruction of Jerusalem, but the four together... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:8-13

The repairing of the temple by Josiah. I. THE COMMISSIONERS . 1 . Their names. Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the king's secretary ( 2 Chronicles 34:15 ); Maaseiah the governor of the city; and Josh the son of Joahaz, the recorder or chronicler. 2 . Their business. To repair the house of the Lord. This had been done two centuries before by Joash ( 2 Chronicles 24:12 ), and nearly one century before by Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 29:12-19 ). During the reigns of Manasseh and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:13

Scribes . Considering the mention of "scribes" in the plural in 1 Kings 4:3 , although it stands alone, till, at all events, the time of Hezekiah (as testified by Proverbs 25:1 ), it is at any rate not improbable that an order of scribes was instituted by Solomon; that it fell into desuetude immediately under the divided kingdom, and, coming into vogue again under Hezekiah, is now mentioned in the natural way we here find it. The mention of the "scribe" in the singular number is of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:13

Of the Levites there were scribes - Hereto the word “scribe” has never been used to designate a class (compare 1 Kings 4:3). But here an order of scribes, forming a distinct division of the Levitical body, has been instituted. The class itself probably originated in the reign of Hezekiah (compare Proverbs 25:1); and it is probably to the rise of this class that we are indebted for the preservation of so many prophecies belonging to Hezekiah’s time, while the works of almost all previous... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

The final reform (34:1-35:27)Another reform swept Judah during the reign of Josiah (34:1-33; see notes on 2 Kings 22:1-23:20). As with the reform of Hezekiah, the climax in the eyes of the Chronicler was a great Passover Feast in Jerusalem.After returning the ark to its rightful place in the temple, the priests and Levites prepared themselves for their duties. Josiah arranged them in divisions as Hezekiah had done earlier, so that the music, singing, sacrifices and other rituals could be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 34:13

Also. Some think this should be omitted with the italics "they were" and "were". read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 34:1-27

P. Josiah chs. 34-35Like Amon’s death (2 Chronicles 33:24), Josiah’s was unnecessarily premature. However, unlike Amon, Josiah was one of Judah’s reformers."Josiah instituted the most thorough of all the OT reforms . . ." [Note: Idem, "1, 2 Chronicles," p. 549.] "Despite this, however, Josiah is not so significant a monarch overall for the Chronicler as he is for the earlier historian [i.e., the writer of Kings]. Much that he records is now to be understood as recapitulation of Hezekiah’s work,... read more

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