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Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:11-21

Here we have, I. Two particular instances of the care of Hezekiah concerning church matters, having put them into good order, to keep them so. The tithes and other holy things being brought in, he provided, 1. That they should be carefully laid up, and not left exposed in loose heaps, liable to be wasted and embezzled. He ordered chambers to be made ready in some of the courts of the temple for store-chambers (2 Chron. 31:11), and into them the offerings were brought and there kept under lock... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:9

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. How they came to be so large, or why they let them lie where they did. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:10

And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him ,.... Who was the high priest of the family of Eleazar, in the line of Zadok, made high priest in Solomon's time, when Abiathar was thrust out; Jarchi takes him to be the same Azariah that was in the days of Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:17 , and said, since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty ; which were now four mouths since; and the priests and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:11

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord ,.... Either to build new ones, or fit up those that were built: and they prepared them ; got them ready to lay up the stores in. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 31:12

And brought in the offerings, and the tithes, and the dedicated things, faithfully ,.... Kept nothing back for their own private use, but faithfully delivered in and laid up the whole that was brought which remained; this was done by the priests and Levites, in whose hands and care they were: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next ; these two had the charge and care of the whole, the one as deputy to the other. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:11

To prepare chambers - To make granaries to lay up this superabundance. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 31:12

Shimei - was the next - He was assistant to Cononiah. read more

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

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