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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 29 This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah, who upon his accession to the throne opened the doors of the temple, 2 Chronicles 29:1, summoned the priests and Levites, and exhorted them to purge the temple, and restore the worship of it, 2 Chronicles 29:4, who accordingly set about the work immediately, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 1,2. Hezekiah began to reign,.... Of these two verses, [See comments on 2 Kings 18:2], [See comments on 2 Kings 18:3].
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
We are here entering upon a pleasant scene, the good and glorious reign of Hezekiah, in which we shall find more of God and religion than perhaps in any of the good reigns we have yet met with; for he was a very zealous, devout, good man, none like him. In this chapter we have an account of the work of reformation which he set about with vigour...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 29:1]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,.... And, as appears from 2 Chronicles 29:17, on the first day of the month: opened the doors of the house of the Lord; which his father had shut, 2 Chronicles 28:24 and repaired them; or strengthened them, the hinges, and other parts of them, being loosened and weakened; and ornamented them by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he brought in the priests and Levites,.... The persons that officiated in the service of the temple: and gathered them together into the east street; which led to the eastern gate of the temple.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And said unto them, hear me, ye Levites; sanctify yourselves,.... By washing their bodies and their garments, that no pollution might attend them in their service, see Isaiah 52:11 and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers; by carrying out of it all manner of uncleanness, as they did, 2 Chronicles 29:16, and carry forth the filthiness...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For our fathers have transgressed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God,.... Meaning their more immediate ancestors, his father and theirs, who had committed idolatry; which is a great trespass, and than which there is not a greater evil in the sight of God, nor more provoking to him: and have forsaken him; his word,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch,.... So that there was no entering into the temple, 2 Chronicles 28:24 and put out the lamps; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say (n), that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon. Judah and Jerusalem,.... As appeared, by suffering the Syrians, and Israelites, and Edomites, and Philistines, to come upon them, and distress them, as the history of the preceding chapter shows: and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes; such...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, 2 Chronicles 28:5 and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this; for this idolatry; or they were, though afterwards dismissed, 2 Chronicles 28:8 and some of them were still in captivity, perhaps such as were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel,.... To renew one, as Asa and Jehoiada had done, promising to serve the Lord, and worship him according to his will: that his fierce wrath might be turned from us; under the tokens of which they still continued, and might expect it to break forth in other instances, unless a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My sons,.... So, as the father of his people, he speaks of them in the most tender and affectionate manner: be not now negligent; backward to this good work, slothful, sluggish, and remiss in it; according to Jarchi and Kimchi, the word has the signification of error, and the sense may be, do not continue in the error in which you have been, in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 12-14. Then the Levites arose,.... Whose names are mentioned; of the Kohathites two, Mahath the son of Amashai, and Joel the son of Azariah; of the Merarites two, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel; of the Gershonites two, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; and of the family of Elizaphan, a Kohathite, two,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 29:12]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on 2 Chronicles 29:13]
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,.... As they were bid, see 2 Chronicles 29:5, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the word of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord; for this, which the king commanded, was by the Lord, and they came to do this work, in obedience to both.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it,.... Into the holy place, where the candlesticks and shewbread tables stood, into which none but priests might enter, but not into the most holy place, the innermost of all; for none but the high priest might go into that, and only on the day of atonement; though in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,.... Either of the reign of King Hezekiah, or rather of the year; the month Ab or Nisan, as the Targum expresses it: and on the eighth of the month came they to the porch of the Lord; they seem to have begun cleansing the inner part of the temple first, and so came forward until they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,.... In his palace: and said, we have cleansed all the house of the Lord; the several parts of it, and apartments belonging to it: and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof; which they cleansed and scoured, and put in their proper place, and which Ahaz had removed: and the shewbread table,...