2 Kings 22:4
Hilkiah.1Ch 6:13; 9:11; 2Ch 34:9-18that he may.Ten years seem to have elapsed since the people began to present the accustomed offerings; yet no one had taken an account of them, nor were they applied to the purpose for which they were given. sum the silver.12:4,8-11; 2Ch 24:8-12; Mr 12:41,42the keepers.1Ch 9:19; 26:13-19; 2Ch 8:14; Ne 11:19; Ps 84:10door. Heb. threshold.2 Chronicles 29:4-11
east street.32:6; Ne 3:29; Jer 19:2 sanctify now.35:6; Ex 19:10,15; 1Ch 15:12sanctify the house.16; 34:3-8; Eze 36:25; Mt 21:12,13; 1Co 3:16,17; 2Co 6:16; 7:1Eph 5:26,27carry 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; 44:21La 5:7; Da 9:16; Mt 10:37; 23:30-32have forsaken him.Jer 2:13,17turned away.Jer 2:27; Eze 8:16turned 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 28:15-20he 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 28:25to 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.6:7,8to 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 34:15,18Jer 50:5; 2Co 8:5that his fierce.2Ki 23:3,26 negligent. or, deceived.Ga 6:7,8the LordNu 3:6-9; 8:6-14; 18:2-6; De 10:8burn incense. or, offer sacrifice.Nu 16:35-40; 18:72 Chronicles 35:2
charges.23:8,18; 31:2; Nu 18:5-7; 1Ch 24:1-31; Ezr 6:18encouraged.29:5-11; 31:2; 1Ch 22:19
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