2 Chronicles 34:13 - Exposition

Scribes . Considering the mention of "scribes" in the plural in 1 Kings 4:3 , although it stands alone, till, at all events, the time of Hezekiah (as testified by Proverbs 25:1 ), it is at any rate not improbable that an order of scribes was instituted by Solomon; that it fell into desuetude immediately under the divided kingdom, and, coming into vogue again under Hezekiah, is now mentioned in the natural way we here find it. The mention of the "scribe" in the singular number is of frequent occurrence in the historic books, and in Isaiah ( Isaiah 33:18 ; Isaiah 36:22 ). The officers. This word reproduces, in the Hebrew, the familiar shoterim of Exodus 5:10 (see also 1 Chronicles 23:3-6 ).