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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:12

All that could skill of instruments of music - Did the musicians play on their several instruments to encourage and enliven the workmen? Is not this a probable case from their mention here? If this were really the case, instrumental music was never better applied in any thing that refers to the worship of God. It is fabled of Orpheus, a most celebrated musician, that such was the enchanting harmony of his lyre, that he built the city of Thebes by it: the stones and timbers... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:14

Found a book of the law - See on 2 Kings 22:8 ; (note). read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:22

Huldah the prophetess - See on 2 Kings 22:14 ; (note). read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:27

Because thine heart was tender - "Because thy heart was melted, and thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of the Word of the Lord, דיי מימרא meymera daya , when thou didst hear his words, פתגמוי ית yath pithgamoi , against this place," etc. Here the Targum most evidently distinguishes between מימרא meymera , the Personal Word, and פתגם pithgam , a word spoken or expressed. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 34:28

Gathered to thy grave in peace - See particularly the note on 2 Kings 22:20 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

The reign of Josiah-its unexpected boon, in a republication of revealed religion, with the legitimate and happy results following thereupon. In the reign and person of Josiah, once more and for the last time in the now numbered years of the kingdom of Judah, the light of piety and "goodness" flickered up in the socket. His reign began when his yearn numbered but eight; it lasted thirty-one years. Four reigns succeeded his to the date of the destruction of Jerusalem, but the four together... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:8

It is in some sense as though the work of purification, atoning, penitence, must precede that of practical repentance, of repairing , restoring, rebuilding. The original, however, does not warrant the laying of any stress on the when, found again in the Authorized Version. Shaphau. In the parallel ( 2 Kings 22:3 ) Shaphan is designated "the scribe." His descendants, to the second generation, at all events, did him honor ( Jeremiah 26:24 ; Jeremiah 29:3 ; Jeremiah 36:10 , Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:8-13

The repairing of the temple by Josiah. I. THE COMMISSIONERS . 1 . Their names. Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the king's secretary ( 2 Chronicles 34:15 ); Maaseiah the governor of the city; and Josh the son of Joahaz, the recorder or chronicler. 2 . Their business. To repair the house of the Lord. This had been done two centuries before by Joash ( 2 Chronicles 24:12 ), and nearly one century before by Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 29:12-19 ). During the reigns of Manasseh and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:9

Hilkiah the high priest . Of Hilkiah's ancestors and descendants we learn something in the following references: 1 Chronicles 6:13 , 1 Chronicles 6:14 ; 1 Chronicles 9:11 ; 2 Kings 25:18 ; Nehemiah 11:11 ; Ezra 7:1 . They delivered . This means that Hilkiah's people delivered of what they had collected to Shaphan and his colleagues, who again in their turn ( Ezra 7:10 ) "put it into the hand of the workmen,' etc. This is certainly the meaning of 2 Kings 22:4-9 . And they... read more

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