TSK - 2 CHRONICLES 35

  1  Josiah keeps a most solemn passover.
20  He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo.
25  Lamentations for Josiah.


VERSE 1
- Josiah.
  The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness
  according to the law, and upon that account there was none
  like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover
  there were several irregularities.  Bp. Patrick observes, that
  in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding
  things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as
  David, or Solomon, or Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the
  congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both passover and
  eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was
  more than any king ever did before.

   * 2Ch 30:1-27 2Ki 23:21-23
- the fourteenth.
   * Ex 12:6 Nu 9:3 De 16:1-8 Ezr 6:19 Eze 45:21
  Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely
  alluded to at 2 Ki 21 23:21, is very particularly related her,
  while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the
  Kings, and here only touched upon.  The feasts of the Lord
  God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but
  the passover was the chief.  It was the first which was
  solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and
  ushered in those which were afterwards instituted:  and it was
  the last great feast which was held in the night wherein
  Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in
  twain.  Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah
  revived religion in their day.


VERSE 2 
 - charges.
   * 2Ch 23:8,18; 31:2 Nu 18:5-7 1Ch 24:1-31 Ezr 6:18
- encouraged.
   * 2Ch 29:5-11; 31:2 1Ch 22:19


VERSE 3 
 - the Levites.
   * 2Ch 17:8,9; 30:22 De 33:10 Ne 8:7,8 Mal 2:7
- Put.
   * 2Ch 8:11; 34:14
- in the house.  See on ch.
   * 2Ch 5:7
- not be.
   * Nu 4:15-49 1Ch 23:26
- serve now.
   * Nu 8:19; 16:9,10 2Co 4:5


VERSE 4 
 - the houses.
   * 1Ch 9:10-34 Ne 11:10-20
- after your courses.
  The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon,
  concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were
  committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to
  continually.  Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the
  priests and Levites to attend to their several duties, and
  encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not
  retrenched anything:  he merely enforced what had been
  established in the law, and in the regulations made by David
  and the contemporary prophets:  "the commandment of the
  king....was by the word of the Lord."

   * 1Ch 23:1-32 26:32
- and according.
   * 2Ch 8:14


VERSE 5 
 - And stand.
   * Ps 134:1; 135:2
- families of the fathers.  Heb. house of the fathers.  people.
  Heb. sons of the people.


VERSE 6 
 - So kill.
   * 2Ch 30:15-17 Ex 12:6,21,22 Ezr 6:20,21
- sanctify.
   * 2Ch 29:5,15,34; 30:3,15-19 Ge 35:2 Ex 19:10,15 Nu 19:11-20 Job 1:5
   * Ps 51:7 Joe 2:16 Heb 9:13,14


VERSE 7 
 - Josiah.
   * 2Ch 7:8-10; 30:24 Isa 32:8 Eze 45:17
- gave.  Heb. offered.
   * 1Ki 8:63
- thirty thousand.
  According to the calculation, that not fewer than ten, nor
  more than twenty persons, were to join for one kid or lamb,
  the numbers given on this occasion would suffice for above
  400,000 persons.

- the king's substance.
   * 1Ki 8:63 1Ch 29:3


VERSE 8 
 - his princes.
   * 2Ch 29:31-33 1Ch 29:6-9,17 Ezr 1:6; 2:68,69; 7:16; 8:25-35
   * Ne 7:70-72 Ps 45:12 Ac 2:44,45; 4:34,35
- gave.  Heb. offered.  willingly.
   * 2Co 8:12; 9:7
- Hilkiah.
   * 2Ch 34:14-20
- rulers.
   * 1Ch 9:20; 24:4,5 Jer 29:25,26 Ac 4:1; 5:26


VERSE 9 
 - gave.  Heb. offered.
   * Isa 1:10-15 Jer 3:10; 7:21-28 Mic 6:6-8


VERSE 10 
 - the priests.
   * :4,5; 30:16 Ezr 6:18


VERSE 11 
 - the priests.
   * 2Ch 29:22-24; 30:16 Le 1:5,6 Nu 18:3,7 Heb 9:21,22
- flayed them.
   * 2Ch 29:34


VERSE 12 
 - as it is written.
   * Le 3:3,5,9-11,14-16


VERSE 13 
 - roasted.
   * Ex 12:8,9 De 16:7 Ps 22:14 La 1:12,13
- sod.
   * Le 6:28 Nu 6:19 1Sa 2:13-15
- divided them speedily.  Heb. made them run.
   * Ro 12:11


VERSE 14 
 - because the priests.
   * Ac 6:2-4


VERSE 15 
 - place.  Heb. station.  according.
   * 2Ch 29:25,26 1Ch 16:41,42; 23:5; 25:1-7 Ps 77:1; 78:1; 79:1 *titles
- the porters.
   * 1Ch 9:17-19; 26:14-19

VERSE 16


VERSE 17 
 - present.  Heb. found.  the feast.
   * 2Ch 30:21-23 Ex 12:15-20; 13:6,7; 23:15; 34:18 Le 23:5-8 Nu 28:16-25
   * De 16:3,4,8 1Co 5:7,8


VERSE 18 
 - there was no passover.
  Not one on purer principles, more heartily joined in by the
  people present, more literally or exactly consecrated,
  according to the law, or more religiously observed.  The words
  do not refer to the number present, but to the manner and
  spirit.

   * 2Ch 30:5 2Ki 23:21-23
- neither did.
   * 2Ch 30:26,27

VERSE 19


VERSE 20 
 - A.M. 3394.  B.C. 610.  temple.  Heb. house.  Necho.
  Pharaoh, the lame, says the Targumist.

   * 2Ki 23:29,30
- Pharaoh-necho.
   * Jer 46:2-12
- Charchemish.
   * Isa 10:9


VERSE 21 
 - What.
   * 2Sa 16:10 Mt 8:29 Joh 2:4
- house wherewith I have war.  Heb. house of my war.  God.
   * 2Ki 18:25 Isa 36:10
- forbear thee.
   * 2Ch 25:19


VERSE 22 
 - Nevertheless.
  Josiah's conduct in this affair has been treated with great
  severity; and he has been charged with engaging rashly in an
  unjust war, and disregarding the express command of God.  But
  Scripture no where condemns him; and Pharaoh, in marching
  through Josiah's territories, against his will, certainly
  committed an act of hostility.  It is evident that Josiah was
  in possession of the whole land of Israel (ch. 6 26:6); and
  probably he held the northern parts of it as a grant from the
  king of Babylon; and was not only in alliance with him, but
  bound to guard his frontiers against hostile invaders.  He
  may, therefore, be fairly justified from the charge of
  unjustly meddling in a war that did not belong him.  It is
  true the ambassadors assured Josiah, that "God had commanded
  Pharaoh to make haste;" and he is therefore said not to have
  "hearkened to the words of Necho, from the mouth of God." But
  Necho produced no proof that he was a prophet of Jehovah; and
  the word he employed, {elohim,} may denote gods or idols; and
  critics have noticed that the expression, "from the mouth of
  God," is not used when the true God is meant.

- but disguised.
   * 2Ch 18:29 1Ki 14:2; 22:30,34
- the mouth.
   * :21; 18:4-6 Jos 9:14
- Megiddo.
   * Jud 5:19 2Ki 9:27; 23:30 Zec 12:11
- Megiddon.
   * Re 16:16
- Armageddon.


VERSE 23 
 - the archers.
   * 2Ch 18:33 Ge 49:23 2Ki 9:24 La 3:13
- wounded.  Heb. made sick.
   * 1Ki 22:34 2Ki 8:29


VERSE 24 
 - the second.
   * Ge 41:43
- they.
   * 2Ki 23:30
- died.
   * Ps 36:6 Ec 8:14; 9:1,2
- in one of the.  or, among the.
   * 2Ch 34:28
- Judah.
   * Zec 12:11


VERSE 25 
 - Jeremiah.
   * Jer 22:10 La 4:20
- all the singing.
   * Job 3:8 Ec 12:5 Jer 9:17-21 Mt 9:23
- and made them.
   * Jer 22:20


VERSE 26 
 - goodness.  Heb. kindness.
   * 2Ch 31:20; 32:32


VERSE 27 
 - deeds.
   * 2Ch 20:34; 24:27; 25:26; 26:22; 32:32; 33:19 2Ki 10:34; 16:19; 20:20
   * 2Ki 21:25



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