2Ch 29 | TSK | STEP | Hezekiah's good reign. He restores religion. He exhorts the Levites. They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house of God Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices, wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests. A.M. 3278-3306. B.C. 726-698. Hezekiah. Ezekias. Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 29

1 Hezekiah's good reign.

3 He restores religion.

5 He exhorts the Levites.

12 They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house of God

20 Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices, wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests.

A.M. 3278-3306. B.C. 726-698. Hezekiah.

2Ki 18:1-3; 1Ch 3:13; Isa 1:1; Ho 1:1; Mic 1:1; Mt 1:9,10

Ezekias. Zechariah.

26:5; Isa 8:2

28:1 34:2 2Ki 18:3Of several of Hezekiah's predecessors it had been said that they did that which was right, but not like David, that is, not with David's integrity and zeal.

A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. He in the first.

34:3; Ps 101:3; Ec 9:10; Mt 6:33; Ga 1:16

opened.

7; 28:24; 2Ki 16:14-18

east street.

32:6; Ne 3:29; Jer 19:2

sanctify now.

35:6; Ex 19:10,15; 1Ch 15:12

sanctify the house.

16; 34:3-8; Eze 36:25; Mt 21:12,13; 1Co 3:16,17; 2Co 6:16; 7:1

Eph 5:26,27

carry forth.

Eze 8:3,9-18

For our fathers.

28:2-4,23-25; 34:21; Ezr 5:12; 9:7; Ne 9:16,32; Jer 16:19; 44:21

La 5:7; Da 9:16; Mt 10:37; 23:30-32

have forsaken him.

Jer 2:13,17

turned away.

Jer 2:27; Eze 8:16

turned their backs. Heb. given the neck. Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.

3; 28:24; Le 24:2-8; 2Ki 16:17,18; Mal 1:10

Wherefore.

24:18; 34:24,25; 36:14-16; De 28:15-20

he hath delivered.It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners: see ch. 28:6-8.

trouble. Heb. commotion.

De 28:25

to astonishment.

Le 26:32; De 28:59; 1Ki 9:8; Jer 18:15,16; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18

our fathers.

28:5-8,17; Le 26:17; La 5:7

Now it is.

6:7,8

to make a covenant.To renew that covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign, and the spirit of which was, "I will be your God, ye shall be my people."

15:12,13; 23:16; 34:30-32; Ezr 10:3; Ne 9:38; 10:1-39; Jer 34:15,18

Jer 50:5; 2Co 8:5

that his fierce.

2Ki 23:3,26

negligent. or, deceived.

Ga 6:7,8

the Lord

Nu 3:6-9; 8:6-14; 18:2-6; De 10:8

burn incense. or, offer sacrifice.

Nu 16:35-40; 18:7

Kohathites.

Ex 6:16-25; Nu 4:2-20; 1Ch 6:16-18; 15:5; 23:12-20

of the sons.

1Ch 6:16-18; 15:5; 23:12-20

of the sons.

1Ch 6:19,44; 15:6; 23:21-23

of the Gershonites.

1Ch 6:17,20,21; 15:7; 23:7-11

Elizaphan.

Le 10:4

Elzaphan.

1Ch 15:8

Asaph.

1Ch 6:39; 15:17; 25:2

Heman.

1Ch 6:33; 15:19

Jeduthun.

1Ch 25:1,3,6

sanctified themselves.

by the words of the Lord. or, in the business of the Lord.

30:12

to cleanse.

1Ch 23:28

the priests.The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labour they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but, as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron: in this work, eight more days were occupied; and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.

the inner part.

3:8; 5:7; Ex 26:33,34; 1Ki 6:19,20; Heb 9:2-8,23,24

all the uncleanness.

Eze 36:29; Mt 21:12,13; 23:27

Kidron.

15:16; 2Ki 23:4-6; Joh 18:1

Cedron.

the porch.

7; 3:4; 1Ki 6:3; 1Ch 28:11

the sixteenth.

the altar.

the shewbread.

all the vessels.

did cast away.Or, as the LXX., Vulgate, and Targum read, "did pollute," {hizneeach,} he rendered them so abominable that they were rejected with abhorrence.

rose.

Ge 22:3; Ex 24:4; Jos 6:12; Jer 25:4

they brought.The law only required one bullock for the sins of the high priest, another for the sins of the people, and one he-goat for the sins of the prince: but Hezekiah offered many more, and the reason appears sufficiently evident: the law only speaks of the sins of ignorance, but here there were sins of every dye, idolatry, apostasy from the Divine worship, profanation of the temple, etc., etc. The sin offerings, we are informed, were offered, first, for the Kingdom, for the transgressions of the king and his family; secondly, for the sanctuary, which had been defiled and polluted; and for the priests, who had been profane, negligent, and unholy; and finally, for Judah, for the whole mass of the people, who had been led away into every kind of abomination by the above examples.

seven.

Nu 23:1,14,29; 1Ch 15:26; Ezr 8:35; Job 42:8; Eze 45:23

a sin offering.

Le 4:3-14; Nu 15:22-24; 2Co 5:21

sprinkled.

Le 1:5; 4:7,18,34; 8:14,15,19,24; Heb 9:21,22

forth. Heb. near. they laid.

Le 1:4; 4:15,24

reconciliation.

Le 6:30; 8:15; Eze 45:15,17; Da 9:24; Ro 5:10,11; 2Co 5:18-21

Col 1:20,21; Heb 2:17

to make.

Le 14:20

the sin offering.

Le 4:13-35

And he set.

1Ch 9:33; 15:16-22; 16:4,5,42; 25:1-7

according.

8:14; 35:15; 1Ch 23:5; 28:12,19

Gad.

2Sa 24:11; 1Ch 21:9; 29:29

Nathan.

2Sa 7:2-4; 12:1-7

for so was.

30:12

of the Lord by his prophets. Heb. by the hand of the Lord,by the hand of his prophets.

the instruments.

1Ch 23:5; Ps 87:7; 150:3-5; Isa 38:20; Am 6:5

the priests.

5:12,13; Nu 10:8,10; Jos 6:4-9; 1Ch 15:24; 16:6; Ps 81:3; 98:5,6

when. Heb. in the time. the song.

7:3; 20:21; 23:18; Ps 136:1; 137:3,4

the instruments. Heb. hands of instruments.

And all the congregation.

Ps 68:24-26; Re 5:8-14

the singers sang. Heb. song.

Ps 89:15

present. Heb. found. bowed themselves.

20:18; 1Ch 29:20; Ps 72:11; Ro 14:11; Php 2:10,11

with the words.

2Sa 23:1,2; 1Ch 16:7-36

they sang.

Ps 32:11; 33:1; 95:1,2,6; 100:1,2; 149:2; Php 4:4

consecrated yourselves. or, filled your hand.

13:9

sacrifices.

Le 1:1-3:17

thank.

Le 7:12

and as many, etc.As the burnt offerings were wholly consumed on the altar, the offering of them evinced greater zeal and liberality than the oblation of peace offerings, the greater part of which was eaten by the officer and his friends.

Le 1:3; 23:38; Ezr 1:4

the number.Comparing the sacrifices offered on this occasion with those of Solomon at the dedication of the temple, we may form some idea of the decrease of the prosperity and riches of Judah, or of the decline of the general spirit of piety.

1Ki 3:4; 8:63; 1Ch 29:21; Ezr 6:17

the consecrated.It is probable that the consecrated things denote the peace offerings and thank offerings.

the priests.Peace offerings, and such like, the Levites might flay and dress; but the whole burnt offerings could only be touched by the priests, except in a case of necessity, such as the present.

5; 30:16,17

their brethren.

35:11; Nu 8:15,19; 18:3,6,7

did help them. Heb. strengthened them. for the Levites.

30:3

upright.

1Ch 29:17; Ps 7:10; 26:6; 94:15

the burnt.

the fat.

Ex 29:13; Le 3:15,16

the drink.

Ge 35:14; Le 23:13; Nu 15:5-10

so the.

1Ch 16:37-42; Ezr 6:18; 1Co 14:40

Hezekiah rejoiced.Both Hezekiah and the people rejoiced, that God had prepared the hearts of the people to bring about so great and glorious a reformation in so short a time. This good king's example and influence were here, as in many other cases, under God, the grand spring of all those mighty movements.

1Ch 29:9,17; Ezr 6:22; 1Th 3:8,9

God.

30:12; 1Ch 29:18; Ps 10:17; Pr 16:1

the thing.

Ac 2:41