2 Chronicles 29:6-9 NIV

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

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:9

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword ,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, 2 Chronicles 28:5 . and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this ; for this idolatry; or they were, though afterwards dismissed, 2 Chronicles 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were carried captive by the Edomites, 2 Chronicles 28:17 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:8

He hath delivered them to trouble , to astonishment - He probably refers here chiefly to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites in which a hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners; see the preceding chapter, 2 Chronicles 28:6-8 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11

The height of opportunity. To Hezekiah as he ascended the throne of Judah there was presented a very noble opportunity. His father had brought the nation down very low, had left it "naked" to its various enemies, had caused it to incur the sore displeasure of the Lord, had suffered it to reach the very verge of destruction. But he himself was young and strong; he knew what was the secret and what the source of prosperity; he indulged the hope that everything might yet be restored if... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

The reformation of Hezekiah-the thing done suddenly. Hezekiah was the thirteenth of the twenty kings of the line of Judah; but when his reign of twenty-nine years had run to its end, as many as two hundred and eighty-two yearn had sped away of the three hundred and ninety-two of the duration of the line up to the date of the Captivity. It may also be remembered that, of the seven reigns following upon that of Hezekiah, two (those of Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin) lasted only three months each.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:3-19

The purification of the temple. I. THE GATHERING OF THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES . ( 2 Chronicles 29:4 .) 1 . When ? In the first year of the king's reign, in the first month ( 2 Chronicles 29:3 , 2 Chronicles 29:17 ), but whether of that reign (Caspari) or of the ecclesiastical year (Bertheau, Keil, Jamieson, Ochler in Herzog) cannot be determined. In either case it was not long after his accession. The acts evinced 2 . Where? In "the broad place on the east;"... read more

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 29:8

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-36

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:3-19

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