2 Chronicles 34:13

13. Of the Levites… scribes On the ancient office of the scribe, see note on 2 Samuel 8:17. “Here,” says Rawlinson, “we have come to a new state of things an order of scribes, forming a distinct division of the Levitical body, has been instituted. It has been well observed, that though the class-term is first found in this passage, the class itself probably originated in the reign of Hezekiah. When that monarch employed men to copy out the uncollected proverbs of Solomon, (Proverbs 25:1,) a class of scribes must have been instituted. It is probably to the rise of this class that we are indebted for the preservation of so many prophecies belonging to Hezekiah’s time, while the works of almost all previous prophets Ahijah, Iddo, Shemaiah, Jehu the son of Hanani, and probably many others have perished.”