2 Kings 23:29-35

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 23:25-30

Upon the reading of these verses we must say, Lord, though thy righteousness be as the great mountains?evident, conspicuous, and past dispute, yet thy judgments are a great deep, unfathomable and past finding out, Ps. 36:6. What shall we say to this? I. It is here owned that Josiah was one of the best kings that ever sat upon the throne of David, 2 Kgs. 23:25. As Hezekiah was a non-such for faith and dependence upon God in straits (2 Kgs. 18:5), so Josiah was a non-such for sincerity and zeal... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 23:31-37

Jerusalem saw not a good day after Josiah was laid in his grave, but one trouble came after another, till within twenty-two years it was quite destroyed. Of the reign of two of his sons here is a short account; the former we find here a prisoner and the latter a tributary to the king of Egypt, and both so in the very beginning of their reign. This king of Egypt having slain Josiah, though he had not had any design upon Judah, yet, being provoked by the opposition which Josiah gave him, now, it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:29

In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt ,.... Who is called in the Targum Pharaoh the lame, because he was lame in his feet, perhaps gouty; Herodotus F24 Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 158. also calls him Necos the son of Psammiticus; now it was in the last days of Josiah this king reigned in Egypt, or however that the following event was: that he went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates ; to Carchemish, a city situated upon it; see 2 Chronicles 35:26 , the king he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:30

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo ,.... They took him out of the chariot in which he was wounded, and put him into another, where he died of his wounds by the way; being mortally wounded, he is said to be dead, or a dead man, see 2 Chronicles 35:24 . and brought him to Jerusalem ; which, according to Bunting F2 Travels, &c.; p. 188. , was forty four miles from Megiddo: and buried him in his own sepulchre ; which either he had provided for himself... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign ,.... Who seems to be the same with Shallum, Jeremiah 22:11 . and he reigned three months in Jerusalem ; a short reign, being deposed by the king of Egypt, as after related: and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah ; a city in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 10:29 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:32

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord ,.... Committed idolatry: according to all that his fathers had done ; his grand father and great grandfather, Amon and Manasseh; so soon after Josiah's death was the revolt to idolatry. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath ,.... Places in Syria; Hamath was formerly a kingdom in Syria, and Riblah is said by Jerom F3 Comment. in Ezekiel. xlvii. fol. 261. C. to be Antioch of Syria, near to which was the fountain of Daphne; and in the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem on Numbers 34:11 . Daphne is put for Riblah; and Josephus F4 Antiqu. l. 17. c. 2. sect. 3. says Antioch was by Daphne of Syria; and in the Apocrypha:"Which when Onias... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:34

And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father ,.... Not in the room of Jehoahaz; for he did not allow him to be a king, and to have any lawful right to the throne; but, deposing him, set up his elder brother: and turned his name to Jehoiakim ; to show his subjection to him, and that he held his government by him: and took Jehoahaz away : with him, from Jerusalem, when he departed thence: and he came to Egypt, and died there : and never... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:35

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh ,.... The one hundred talents of silver and the talent of gold, which he imposed as a tribute upon the land: but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh ; he did not take it out of his own treasures nor the treasures of the house of the Lord, which perhaps might be exhausted, but levied it of the people of the land: he exacted the silver and gold of the people of the land , required them to pay it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 23:29

In his days Pharaoh-nechoh - See the note on the death of Josiah, 2 Kings 22:20 ; (note). Nechoh is supposed to have been the son of Psammitichus, king of Egypt; and the Assyrian king, whom he was now going to attack, was the famous Nabopolassar. What the cause of this quarrel was, is not known. Some say it was on account of Carchemish, a city on the Euphrates, belonging to the Egyptians, which Nabopolassar had seized. See Isaiah 10:9 . read more

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