2 Chronicles 31:1-32:33 ESV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-10

We have here an account of what was done after the passover. What was wanting in the solemnities of preparation for it before was made up in that which is better, a due improvement of it after. When the religious exercises of a Lord's day or a communion are finished we must not think that then the work is done. No, then the hardest part of our work begins, which is to exemplify the impressions of the ordinance upon our minds in all the instances of a holy conversation. So it was here; when all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished ,.... The temple cleansed, the priests and Levites sanctified, the passover and feast of unleavened bread observed, and other seven days of rejoicing kept: all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin ; which had been erected by Ahaz, 2 Chronicles 28:2 at or about this time also the brasen serpent was broke... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:1

Brake the images in pieces - This species of reformation was not only carried on through Judah, but they carried it into Israel; whether through a transport of religious zeal, or whether with the consent of Hoshea the Israelitish king, we cannot tell. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

As much as the last verse of the foregoing chapter was all of the religious fervour of the occasion, this verse is all of the, practical honest work of the people and their leaders. All Israel that were present; i.e. present (or Hebrew, "found") in Jerusalem at the conclusion of the Feast of the Passover. Jerusalem had already been attended to ( 2 Chronicles 31:14 of foregoing chapter). Now the right mind of the people bore the reformation with a wave of enthusiasm over all Judah and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

After the excitement. And now what next? The services and the feasts are over; the temple door is closed; the tables are taken down; the musical instruments are laid aside in their places; the programme has been completed—the extended programme. What now shall that excited, enthusiastic multitude do? There is— I. THE PECULIAR PERIL OF THE HOUR . There is no hour of greater moral danger—such is our human nature—than that immediately following great religious excitement. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-4

A religious reformation in the days of Hezekiah. I. A POPULAR CRUSADE AGAINST IDOLATRY . ( 2 Chronicles 31:1 .) 1 . When begun. "When all this was finished," i.e. after the temple had been purified and rededicated ( 2 Chronicles 29:1-36 .), and the Passover celebrated ( 2 Chronicles 30:1-27 .). Everything in its order. "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven;" "a time to pluck up that which is planted;" "a time to break... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-21

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-21

The works that came of faith. This chapter discloses to our view the perfection of activity. The rest of the Sunday, so to say, is followed by most laudable industry, and "the fervent in spirit" are "diligent in business" worthy of them. The picture is, indeed, of a living, moving scene. An army of volunteers issues forth from the recently purged city of Jerusalem to engage in worthy warfare, extirpating "images," "groves," "high places , " "altars," and utterly exterminating them from... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:1

Jerusalem had been cleansed 2 Chronicles 30:14; now the land had to be purged. Hezekiah therefore gave his sanction to a popular movement directed as much against the “high places” which had been maintained since the times of the patriarchs, as against the remnants of the Baal-worship, or the innovations of Ahaz. See 2 Kings 18:4 note. The invasion of the northern kingdom “Ephraim and Manasseh” by a tumultuous crowd from the southern one, and the success which attended the movement, can only be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 31:1

2 Chronicles 31:1. In Ephraim and Manasseh also Though these tribes were a part of Hoshea’s kingdom, yet Hezekiah might direct this abolition of idolatry in them, either in virtue of the law of God, to which both Israel and Judah owed subjection, and which commanded the extirpation of these things, out of the whole land of Canaan; or by the special impulse and direction of God’s Spirit, which puts men upon heroic and extraordinary actions, though not to be drawn into imitation; or out of a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:1

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:1-21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 31:1

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