2 Chronicles 34:12 King James Version with Strong's Concordance (STRONG)

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¹² And the men ^H582 did ^H6213 the work ^H4399 faithfully: ^H530 and the overseers ^H5329 of them were Jahath ^H3189 and Obadiah, ^H5662 the Levites, ^H3881 of the sons ^H1121 of Merari; ^H4847 and Zechariah ^H2148 and Meshullam, ^H4918 of the sons of the Kohathites, ^H6956 to set it forward; ^H6485 and other of the Levites, ^H3881 all that could skill ^H995 of instruments ^H3627 of musick. ^H7892

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1 Chronicles 6:31-48 STRONG

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And these are they whom David ^H1732 set ^H5975 over the service ^H3027 of song ^H7892 in the house ^H1004 of the LORD, ^H3068 after that the ark ^H727 had rest. ^H4494 And they ministered ^H8334 before ^H6440 the dwelling ^H4908 place of the tabernacle ^H168 of the congregation ^H4150 with singing, ^H7892 until Solomon ^H8010 had built ^H1129 the house ^H1004 of the LORD ^H3068 in Jerusalem: ^H3389 and then they waited ^H5975 on their office ^H5656 according to their order. ^H4941 And these are they that waited ^H5975 with their children. ^H1121 Of the sons ^H1121 of the Kohathites: ^H6956 Heman ^H1968 a singer, ^H7891 the son ^H1121 of Joel, ^H3100 the son ^H1121 of Shemuel, ^H8050 The son ^H1121 of Elkanah, ^H511 the son ^H1121 of Jeroham, ^H3395 the son ^H1121 of Eliel, ^H447 the son ^H1121 of Toah, ^H8430 The son ^H1121 of Zuph, ^H6689 the son ^H1121 of Elkanah, ^H511 the son ^H1121 of Mahath, ^H4287 the son ^H1121 of Amasai, ^H6022 The son ^H1121 of Elkanah, ^H511 the son ^H1121 of Joel, ^H3100 the son ^H1121 of Azariah, ^H5838 the son ^H1121 of Zephaniah, ^H6846 The son ^H1121 of Tahath, ^H8480 the son ^H1121 of Assir, ^H617 the son ^H1121 of Ebiasaph, ^H43 the son ^H1121 of Korah, ^H7141 The son ^H1121 of Izhar, ^H3324 the son ^H1121 of Kohath, ^H6955 the son ^H1121 of Levi, ^H3878 the son ^H1121 of Israel. ^H3478 And his brother ^H251 Asaph, ^H623 who stood ^H5975 on his right hand, ^H3225 even Asaph ^H623 the son ^H1121 of Berachiah, ^H1296 the son ^H1121 of Shimea, ^H8092 The son ^H1121 of Michael, ^H4317 the son ^H1121 of Baaseiah, ^H1202 the son ^H1121 of Malchiah, ^H4441 The son ^H1121 of Ethni, ^H867 the son ^H1121 of Zerah, ^H2226 the son ^H1121 of Adaiah, ^H5718 The son ^H1121 of Ethan, ^H387 the son ^H1121 of Zimmah, ^H2155 the son ^H1121 of Shimei, ^H8096 The son ^H1121 of Jahath, ^H3189 the son ^H1121 of Gershom, ^H1647 the son ^H1121 of Levi. ^H3878 And their brethren ^H251 the sons ^H1121 of Merari ^H4847 stood on the left hand: ^H8040 Ethan ^H387 the son ^H1121 of Kishi, ^H7029 the son ^H1121 of Abdi, ^H5660 the son ^H1121 of Malluch, ^H4409 The son ^H1121 of Hashabiah, ^H2811 the son ^H1121 of Amaziah, ^H558 the son ^H1121 of Hilkiah, ^H2518 The son ^H1121 of Amzi, ^H557 the son ^H1121 of Bani, ^H1137 the son ^H1121 of Shamer, ^H8106 The son ^H1121 of Mahli, ^H4249 the son ^H1121 of Mushi, ^H4187 the son ^H1121 of Merari, ^H4847 the son ^H1121 of Levi. ^H3878 Their brethren ^H251 also the Levites ^H3881 were appointed ^H5414 unto all manner of service ^H5656 of the tabernacle ^H4908 of the house ^H1004 of God. ^H430

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And David ^H1732 spake ^H559 to the chief ^H8269 of the Levites ^H3881 to appoint ^H5975 their brethren ^H251 to be the singers ^H7891 with instruments ^H3627 of musick, ^H7892 psalteries ^H5035 and harps ^H3658 and cymbals, ^H4700 sounding, ^H8085 by lifting up ^H7311 the voice ^H6963 with joy. ^H8057 So the Levites ^H3881 appointed ^H5975 Heman ^H1968 the son ^H1121 of Joel; ^H3100 and of his brethren, ^H251 Asaph ^H623 the son ^H1121 of Berechiah; ^H1296 and of the sons ^H1121 of Merari ^H4847 their brethren, ^H251 Ethan ^H387 the son ^H1121 of Kushaiah; ^H6984 And with them their brethren ^H251 of the second ^H4932 degree, Zechariah, ^H2148 Ben, ^H1122 and Jaaziel, ^H3268 and Shemiramoth, ^H8070 and Jehiel, ^H3171 and Unni, ^H6042 Eliab, ^H446 and Benaiah, ^H1141 and Maaseiah, ^H4641 and Mattithiah, ^H4993 and Elipheleh, ^H466 and Mikneiah, ^H4737 and Obededom, ^H5654 and Jeiel, ^H3273 the porters. ^H7778 So the singers, ^H7891 Heman, ^H1968 Asaph, ^H623 and Ethan, ^H387 were appointed to sound ^H8085 with cymbals ^H4700 of brass; ^H5178 And Zechariah, ^H2148 and Aziel, ^H5815 and Shemiramoth, ^H8070 and Jehiel, ^H3171 and Unni, ^H6042 and Eliab, ^H446 and Maaseiah, ^H4641 and Benaiah, ^H1141 with psalteries ^H5035 on Alamoth; ^H5961 And Mattithiah, ^H4993 and Elipheleh, ^H466 and Mikneiah, ^H4737 and Obededom, ^H5654 and Jeiel, ^H3273 and Azaziah, ^H5812 with harps ^H3658 on the Sheminith ^H8067 to excel. ^H5329 And Chenaniah, ^H3663 chief ^H8269 of the Levites, ^H3881 was for song: ^H4853 he instructed ^H3256 about the song, ^H4853 because he was skilful. ^H995

1 Chronicles 16:4-5 STRONG

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And he appointed ^H5414 certain of the Levites ^H3881 to minister ^H8334 before ^H6440 the ark ^H727 of the LORD, ^H3068 and to record, ^H2142 and to thank ^H3034 and praise ^H1984 the LORD ^H3068 God ^H430 of Israel: ^H3478 Asaph ^H623 the chief, ^H7218 and next ^H4932 to him Zechariah, ^H2148 Jeiel, ^H3273 and Shemiramoth, ^H8070 and Jehiel, ^H3171 and Mattithiah, ^H4993 and Eliab, ^H446 and Benaiah, ^H1141 and Obededom: ^H5654 and Jeiel ^H3273 with psalteries ^H5035 ^H3627 and with harps; ^H3658 but Asaph ^H623 made a sound ^H8085 with cymbals; ^H4700

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Moreover David ^H1732 and the captains ^H8269 of the host ^H6635 separated ^H914 to the service ^H5656 of the sons ^H1121 of Asaph, ^H623 and of Heman, ^H1968 and of Jeduthun, ^H3038 who should prophesy ^H5012 ^H5030 with harps, ^H3658 with psalteries, ^H5035 and with cymbals: ^H4700 and the number ^H4557 of the workmen ^H582 ^H4399 according to their service ^H5656 was: Of the sons ^H1121 of Asaph; ^H623 Zaccur, ^H2139 and Joseph, ^H3130 and Nethaniah, ^H5418 and Asarelah, ^H841 the sons ^H1121 of Asaph ^H623 under the hands ^H3027 of Asaph, ^H623 which prophesied ^H5012 according to the order ^H3027 of the king. ^H4428 Of Jeduthun: ^H3038 the sons ^H1121 of Jeduthun; ^H3038 Gedaliah, ^H1436 and Zeri, ^H6874 and Jeshaiah, ^H3470 Hashabiah, ^H2811 and Mattithiah, ^H4993 six, ^H8337 under the hands ^H3027 of their father ^H1 Jeduthun, ^H3038 who prophesied ^H5012 with a harp, ^H3658 to give thanks ^H3034 and to praise ^H1984 the LORD. ^H3068 Of Heman: ^H1968 the sons ^H1121 of Heman; ^H1968 Bukkiah, ^H1232 Mattaniah, ^H4983 Uzziel, ^H5816 Shebuel, ^H7619 and Jerimoth, ^H3406 Hananiah, ^H2608 Hanani, ^H2607 Eliathah, ^H448 Giddalti, ^H1437 and Romamtiezer, ^H7320 Joshbekashah, ^H3436 Mallothi, ^H4413 Hothir, ^H1956 and Mahazioth: ^H4238 All these were the sons ^H1121 of Heman ^H1968 the king's ^H4428 seer ^H2374 in the words ^H1697 of God, ^H430 to lift up ^H7311 the horn. ^H7161 And God ^H430 gave ^H5414 to Heman ^H1968 fourteen ^H702 ^H6240 sons ^H1121 and three ^H7969 daughters. ^H1323 All these were under the hands ^H3027 of their father ^H1 for song ^H7892 in the house ^H1004 of the LORD, ^H3068 with cymbals, ^H4700 psalteries, ^H5035 and harps, ^H3658 for the service ^H5656 of the house ^H1004 of God, ^H430 according to the king's ^H4428 order ^H3027 to Asaph, ^H623 Jeduthun, ^H3038 and Heman. ^H1968 So the number ^H4557 of them, with their brethren ^H251 that were instructed ^H3925 in the songs ^H7892 of the LORD, ^H3068 even all that were cunning, ^H995 was two hundred ^H3967 fourscore ^H8084 and eight. ^H8083 And they cast ^H5307 lots, ^H1486 ward ^H4931 against ^H5980 ward, as well the small ^H6996 as the great, ^H1419 the teacher ^H995 as the scholar. ^H8527 Now the first ^H7223 lot ^H1486 came forth ^H3318 for Asaph ^H623 to Joseph: ^H3130 the second ^H8145 to Gedaliah, ^H1436 who with his brethren ^H251 and sons ^H1121 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The third ^H7992 to Zaccur, ^H2139 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The fourth ^H7243 to Izri, ^H3339 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The fifth ^H2549 to Nethaniah, ^H5418 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The sixth ^H8345 to Bukkiah, ^H1232 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The seventh ^H7637 to Jesharelah, ^H3480 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The eighth ^H8066 to Jeshaiah, ^H3470 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The ninth ^H8671 to Mattaniah, ^H4983 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The tenth ^H6224 to Shimei, ^H8096 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The eleventh ^H6249 ^H6240 to Azareel, ^H5832 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The twelfth ^H8147 ^H6240 to Hashabiah, ^H2811 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The thirteenth ^H7969 ^H6240 to Shubael, ^H7619 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The fourteenth ^H702 ^H6240 to Mattithiah, ^H4993 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The fifteenth ^H2568 ^H6240 to Jeremoth, ^H3406 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The sixteenth ^H8337 ^H6240 to Hananiah, ^H2608 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The seventeenth ^H7651 ^H6240 to Joshbekashah, ^H3436 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The eighteenth ^H8083 ^H6240 to Hanani, ^H2607 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The nineteenth ^H8672 ^H6240 to Mallothi, ^H4413 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The twentieth ^H6242 to Eliathah, ^H448 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The one ^H259 and twentieth ^H6242 to Hothir, ^H1956 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The two ^H8147 and twentieth ^H6242 to Giddalti, ^H1437 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The three ^H7969 and twentieth ^H6242 to Mahazioth, ^H4238 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve: ^H8147 ^H6240 The four ^H702 and twentieth ^H6242 to Romamtiezer, ^H7320 he, his sons, ^H1121 and his brethren, ^H251 were twelve. ^H8147 ^H6240

Commentary on 2 Chronicles 34 Matthew Henry Commentary

John Gill Keil & Delitzsch Robert Jamieson: Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Chapter 34

Before we see Judah and Jerusalem ruined we shall yet see some glorious years, while good Josiah sits at the helm. By his pious endeavours for reformation God tried them yet once more; if they had known in this their day, the day of their visitation, the things that belonged to their peace and improved them, their ruin might have been prevented. But after this reign they were hidden from their eyes, and the next reigns brought an utter desolation upon them. In this chapter we have,

I. A general account of Josiah's character (v. 1, 2).
II. His zeal to root out idolatry (v. 3-7).
III. His care to repair the temple (v. 8-13).
IV. The finding of the book of the law and the good use made of it (v. 14-28).
V. The public reading of the law to the people and their renewing their covenant with God thereupon (v. 29-33). Much of this we had 2 Ki. 22.

2Ch 34:1-7

Concerning Josiah we are here told,

1. That he came to the crown when he was very young, only eight years old (yet his infancy did not debar him from his right), and he reigned thirty-one years (v. 1), a considerable time. I fear, however, that in the beginning of his reign things went much as they had done in his father's time, because, being a child, he must have left the management of them to others; so that it was not till his twelfth year, which goes far in the number of his years, that the reformation began, v. 3. He could not, as Hezekiah did, fall about it immediately.
2. That he reigned very well (v. 2), approved himself to God, trod in the steps of David, and did not decline either to the right hand of to the left: for there are errors on both hands.
3. That while he was young, about sixteen years old, he began to seek after God, v. 3. We have reason to think he had not so good an education as Manasseh had (it is well if those about him did not endeavour to corrupt and debauch him); yet he thus sought God when he was young. It is the duty and interest of young people, and will particularly be the honour of young gentlemen, as soon as they come to years of understanding, to begin to seek God; for those that seek him early shall find him.
4. That in the twelfth year of his reign, when it is probable he took the administration of the government entirely into his own hands, he began to purge his kingdom from the remains of idolatry; he destroyed the high places, groves, images, altars, all the utensils of idolatry, v. 3, 4. He not only cast them out as Manasseh did, but broke them to pieces, and made dust of them. This destruction of idolatry is here said to be in his twelfth year, but it was said (2 Ki. 23:23) to be in his eighteenth year. Something was probably done towards it in his twelfth year; then he began to purge out idolatry, but that good work met with opposition, so that it was not thoroughly done till they had found the book of the law six years afterwards. But here the whole work is laid together briefly which was much more largely and particularly related in the Kings. His zeal carried him out to do this, not only in Judah and Jerusalem, but in the cities of Israel too, as far as he had any influence upon them.

2Ch 34:8-13

Here,

1. Orders are given by the king for the repair of the temple, v. 8. When he had purged the house of the corruptions of it he began to fit it up for the services that were to be performed in it. Thus we must do by the spiritual temple of the heart, get it cleansed from the pollutions of sin, and then renewed, so as to be transformed into the image of God. Josiah, in this order, calls God the Lord his God. Those that truly love God will love the habitation of his house.
2. Care is taken about it, effectual care. The Levites went about the country and gathered money towards it, which was returned to the three trustees mentioned, v. 8. They brought it to Hilkiah the high priest (v. 9), and he and they put it into the hands of workmen, both overseers and labourers, who undertook to do it by the great, as we say, or in the gross, v. 10, 11. It is observed that the workmen were industrious and honest: They did the work faithfully (v. 12); and workmen are not completely faithful if they are not both careful and diligent, for a confidence is reposed in them that they will be so. It is also intimated that the overseers were ingenious; for it is said that all those were employed to inspect this work who were skilful in instruments of music; not that their skill in music could be of any use in architecture, but it was an evidence that they were men of sense and ingenuity, and particularly that their genius lay towards the mathematics, which qualified them very much for this trust. Witty men are then wise men when they employ their wit in doing good, in helping their friends, and, as they have opportunity, in serving the public. Observe, in this work, how God dispenses his gifts variously; here were some that were bearers of burdens, cut out for bodily labour and fit to work. Here were others (made meliori luto-of finer materials) that had skill in music, and they were overseers of those that laboured, and scribes and officers. The former were the hands: these were the heads. They had need of one another, and the work needed both. Let not the overseers of the work despise the bearers of burdens, nor let those that work in the service grudge at those whose office it is to direct; but let each esteem and serve the other in love, and let God have the glory and the church the benefit of the different gifts and dispositions of both.

2Ch 34:14-28

This whole paragraph we had, just as it is here related, 2 Ki. 22:8-20, and have nothing to add here to what was there observed. But,

1. We may hence take occasion to bless God that we have plenty of Bibles, and that they are, or may be, in all hands,-that the book of the law and gospel is not lost, is not scarce,-that, in this sense, the word of the Lord is not precious. Bibles are jewels, but, thanks be to God, they are not rarities. The fountain of the waters of life is not a spring shut up or a fountain sealed, but the streams of it, in all places, make glad the city of our God. Usus communis aquarum-These waters flow for general use. What a great deal shall we have to answer for if the great things of God's law, being thus made common, should be accounted by us as strange things!
2. We may hence learn, whenever we read or hear the word of God, to affect our hearts with it, and to get them possessed with a holy fear of that wrath of God which is there revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, as Josiah's tender heart was. When he heard the words of the law he rent his clothes (v. 19), and God was well pleased with his doing so, v. 27. Were the things contained in the scripture new to us, as they were here to Josiah, surely they would make deeper impressions upon us than commonly they do; but they are not the less weighty, and therefore should not be the less considered by us, for their being well known. Rend the heart therefore, not the garments.
3. We are here directed when we are under convictions of sin, and apprehensions of divine wrath, to enquire of the Lord; so Josiah did, v. 21. It concerns us to ask (as they did, Acts 2:37), Men and brethren, what shall we do? and more particularly (as the jailor), What must I do to be saved? Acts 16:30. If you will thus enquire, enquire (Isa. 21:12); and, blessed be God, we have the lively oracles to which to apply with these enquiries.
4. We are here warned of the ruin that sin brings upon nations and kingdoms. Those that forsake God bring evil upon themselves (v. 24, 25), and kindle a fire which shall not be quenched. Such will the fire of God's wrath be when the decree has gone forth against those that obstinately and impenitently persist in their wicked ways.
5. We are here encouraged to humble ourselves before God and seek unto him, as Josiah did. If we cannot prevail thereby to turn away God's wrath from our land, yet we shall deliver our own souls, v. 27, 28. And good people are here taught to be so far from fearing death as to welcome it rather when it takes them away from the evil to come. See how the property of it is altered by making it the matter of a promise: Thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, housed in that ark, as Noah, when a deluge is coming.

2Ch 34:29-33

We have here an account of the further advances which Josiah made towards the reformation of his kingdom upon the hearing of the law read and the receipt of the message God sent him by the prophetess. Happy the people that had such a king; for here we find that,

1. They were well taught. He did not go about to force them to do their duty, till he had first instructed them in it. He called all the people together, great and small, young and old, rich and poor, high and low. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear the words of the book of the covenant; for they are all concerned in those words. To put an honour upon the service, and to engage attention the more, though there were priests and Levites present, the king himself read the book to the people (v. 30), and he read it, no doubt, in such a manner as to show that he was himself affected with it, which would be a means of affecting the hearers.
2. They were well fixed. The articles of agreement between God and Israel being read, that they might intelligently covenant with God, both king and people with great solemnity did as it were subscribe the articles. The king in his place covenanted to keep God's commandments with all his heart and soul, according to what was written in the book (v. 31), and urged the people to declare their consent likewise to this covenant, and solemnly to promise that they would faithfully perform, fulfil, and keep, all and every thing that was on their part to be done, according to this covenant: this they did; they could not for shame do otherwise. He caused all that were present to stand to it (v. 32), and made them all to serve, even to serve the Lord their God (v. 33), to do it and to make a business of it. he did all he could to bring them to it-to serve, even to serve; the repetition denotes that this was the only thing his heart was set on; he aimed at nothing else in what he did but to engage them to God and their duty.
3. They were well tended, were honest with good looking to. All his days they departed not from following the Lord; he kept them, with much ado, from running into idolatry again. All his days were days of restraint upon them; but this intimated that there was in them a bent to backslide, a strong inclination to idolatry. Many of them wanted nothing but to have him out of the way, and then they would have their high places and their images up again. And therefore we find that in the days of Josiah (Jer. 3:6) God charged it upon treacherous Judah that she had not returned to him with all her heart, but feignedly (v. 10), nay, had played the harlot (v. 8) and thereby had even justified backsliding Israel, v. 11. In the twenty-third year of this reign, four or five years after this, they had gone on to provoke God to anger with the works of their hands (Jer. 25:3-7); and, which is very observable, it is from the beginning of Josiah's reformation, his twelfth or thirteenth year, that the iniquity of the house of Judah, which brought ruin upon them, and which the prophet was to bear lying on his right side, was dated (Eze. 4:6), for thence to the destruction of Jerusalem was just forty years. Josiah was sincere in what he did, but the generality of the people were averse to it and hankered after their idols still; so that the reformation, though well designed and well prosecuted by the prince, had little or no effect upon the people. It was with reluctancy that they parted with their idols; still they were in heart joined to them, and wished for them again. This God saw, and therefore from that time, when one would have thought the foundations had been laid for a perpetual security and peace, from that very time did the decree go forth for their destruction. Nothing hastens the ruin of a people nor ripens them for it more than the baffling of hopeful attempts for reformation and a hypocritical return to God. Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

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