2 Kings 22:4-14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 22:1-10

Concerning Josiah we are here told, I. That he was very young when he began to reign (2 Kgs. 22:1), only eight years old. Solomon says, Woe unto thee, O land! when thy king is a child; but happy art thou, O land! when thy king is such a child. Our English Israel had once a king that was such a child, Edward VI. Josiah, being young, had not received any bad impressions from the example of his father and grandfather, but soon saw their errors, and God gave his grace to take warning by them. See... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 22:11-20

We hear no more of the repairing of the temple: no doubt that good work went on well; but the book of the law that was found in it occupies us now, and well it may. It is not laid up in the king's cabinet as a piece of antiquity, a rarity to be admired, but it is read before the king. Those put the truest honour upon their Bibles that study them and converse with them daily, feed on that bread and walk by that light. Men of honour and business must look upon an acquaintance with God's word to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:4

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest ,.... Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, Jeremiah 1:1 , whom an Arabic writer F12 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 68. takes to be the same with this; but it is not likely: that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord which the people voluntarily offered for the repairing of it; this he would have the priest take an account of, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:5

And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work , that have the oversight of the house of the Lord ,.... That were overseers of the workmen, whose names are mentioned, 2 Chronicles 34:12 into their hands the money was to be delivered by the high priest, when he had taken the account of it, and perhaps along with the king's scribe, see 2 Kings 12:10 , and let them give it to the doers of the work, which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:6

Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons ,.... Who were employed, some in mending the woodwork, and others in repairing the stone walls and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house ; not only money was to be given them for their workmanship, but to buy timber and stone to work with. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:7

Howbeit, there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand ,.... No account was kept between the high priest, and the king's scribe who delivered the money and the overseers of the workmen, who received it from them the latter were not called to any account by the former, nor any audit made of their accounts: because they dealt faithfully : they were persons of such known honour and integrity, that their fidelity was not in the least called in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:8

And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe ,.... Not at the first time of his message to him, but afterwards that he attended on him upon the same business; after the high priest had examined the temple to know what repairs it wanted, and where: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord ; some think this was only the book of Deuteronomy, and some only some part of that; rather the whole Pentateuch, and that not a copy of it, but the very autograph of Moses,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:9

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again ,.... Of the delivery of his message to the high priest, and of what had been done upon it: and said, thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house ; meaning Hilkiah and himself, who had examined the chest in the temple, into which the money was put for the repairs of it, and had taken it out, and told it: and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:10

And Shaphan showed the king ,.... Further related to him what follows: saying, Hilkiah the high priest hath delivered me a book ; but did not say what book it was: and Shaphan read it before the king ; part of it; and it is thought by Kimchi and Ben Gersom that he particularly read the reproofs and threatenings in the book of Deuteronomy; they suppose that Hilkiah read those to Shaphan, and directed him to read them to the king, that he might take into consideration a further... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:11

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law ,.... From whence it appears that he had never wrote out a copy of it, as the kings of Israel were ordered to do, when they came to the throne, Deuteronomy 17:18 nor had read it, at least not the whole of it; and yet it seems strange that he should be twenty six years of age, as he now was, and had proceeded far in the reformation of worship, and yet be without the book of the law, and the high priest also; it... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 22:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 22:11-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 22:11

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