2 Kings 16:18
the covert.There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship. 11:5; 1Ki 10:5; Eze 46:21 Chronicles 9:18
Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims. the king's.1Ki 10:5; 2Ki 11:19; Eze 44:2,3; 46:1,2; Ac 3:11they.26:12-191 Chronicles 26:16
Hosah.10,11Shallecheth.That is, ejection; probably the gate through which all the filth which from time to time might accumulate in the temple and its courts, was cast out. causeway.1Ki 10:5; 2Ch 9:4ward against ward.That is, their stations were opposite to each other; as the north to the south, and the east to the west. 12; 25:8; Ne 12:242 Chronicles 23:13
she looked.Ps 14:5the king.34:31; 2Ki 23:3and the princes.Nu 10:1-10; 1Ch 15:24all the people.1Ki 1:39,40; 1Ch 12:40; Pr 11:10; 29:2sounded.Jud 7:8,18-22; 2Ki 9:13the singers.1Ch 15:16-22,27; 25:1-8Then Athaliah.Ec 9:12Treason. Heb. Conspiracy.1Ki 18:17,18; 2Ki 9:23; Ro 2:1,2Ezekiel 44:3
for.46:2,8; 2Ch 23:13; 34:31the prince.It is probable that the prince mentioned here and elsewhere, does not mean the Messiah, but the ruler of the Jewish nation for the time being. For it is not only directed where he should sit in the temple, and eat his portion of the sacrifices, and when and how he should go out; but it is also ordered (ch. 45:22,) that at the passover he shall offer a bullock, a sin offering for himself and the people; and to guard him against any temptation of oppressing the people, he had a provision of land allotted to him, (ch. 45:8,) out of which he is to give an inheritance for his sons, (ch. 46:18.) These appear plainly to be political rules for common princes, and for a succession of them; but as no such rules were observed under the second temple, the fulfilment of it must still be future. 34:24; 37:25; Zec 6:12,13to eat.Ge 31:54; Ex 24:9-11; De 12:7,17,18; Isa 23:18; 62:9; 1Co 10:18-33Re 3:20he shall enter.40:9; 46:2,8-10Ezekiel 46:2
the porch.Joh 10:1-3by the post.8; 44:3; 2Ch 23:13; 34:31the priests.Col 1:28prepare.Or, "offer," as the word {âsah} frequently denotes. The whole of this seems to intimate the constant, reverential, and exemplary attendance of kings on the pure ordinances of religion, in the approaching flourishing days of the church. he shall worship.1Ki 8:22,23; 1Ch 17:16; 29:10-12; 2Ch 6:13; 29:29; Mt 26:39Heb 5:7,8but the gate.12
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