2 Chronicles 29:12-19

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:12-14

Then the Levites arose ,.... Whose names are mentioned; of the Kohathites two, Mahath the son of Amashai, and Joel the son of Azariah; of the Merarites two, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; of the Gershonites two, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; and of the family of Elizaphan, a Kohathite, two, Shimri and Jehiel; and of the family of Asaph, one of the chief singers in the times of David, two, Zechariah and Mattaniah; and of the family of Heman,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:15

And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves ,.... As they were bid, see 2 Chronicles 29:5 , and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the word of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord ; for this, which the king commanded, was by the Lord, and they came to do this work, in obedience to both. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:16

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it ,.... Into the holy place, where the candlesticks and shewbread tables stood, into which none but priests might enter, but not into the most holy place, the innermost of all; for none but the high priest might go into that, and only on the day of atonement; though in case of necessity, as for repairs, others might go into it, and so perhaps now to cleanse it, if any pollution was there: and brought out all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:17

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify ,.... Either of the reign of King Hezekiah, or rather of the year; the month Ab or Nisan, as the Targum expresses it: and on the eighth of the month came they to the porch of the Lord ; they seem to have begun cleansing the inner part of the temple first, and so came forward until they came to the porch which led into it: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days ; the holy place, and it may be the most holy... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:18

Then they went in to Hezekiah the king ,.... In his palace: and said, we have cleansed all the house of the Lord ; the several parts of it, and apartments belonging to it: and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof ; which they cleansed and scoured, and put in their proper place, and which Ahaz had removed: and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof ; which had lain neglected and profaned, but were now put in order. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:19

Moreover, all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression ,.... Not that he threw them away, being valuable, as made of gold and silver; but, as Kimchi interprets it, he removed them, and converted them to idolatrous uses; or, as the Targum, he defiled or profaned them, and made them abominable by strange idols: have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord ; they had cleaned them, and fitted them for service, and had... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:16

And the priests went - The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labor they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron; in this work eight days more were occupied, and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:17

On the first day - "They began on the first day of the first month Nisan." - Targum. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:19

All the vessels , which King Ahaz - The Targum says, "All the vessels which King Ahaz had polluted and rendered abominable by strange idols, when he reigned in his transgression against the Word of the Lord, we have collected and hidden; and others have we prepared to replace them; and they are now before the Lord." read more

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