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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 1:2Zephaniah 1:12 Chronicles 33:1He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. See also: 2 Chronicles 29:2Joshua 1:72 Chronicles 17:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images. See also: 2 Chronicles 33:222 Chronicles 15:22 Chronicles 33:17They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. See also: Exodus 32:20Leviticus 26:302 Kings 23:4-6He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. See also: 1 Kings 13:2Numbers 35:332 Chronicles 34:7He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:1Isaiah 7:252 Chronicles 30:10-11He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 31:1Deuteronomy 9:212 Chronicles 34:1Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God. See also: 2 Samuel 8:16Jeremiah 40:11Jeremiah 26:24They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:102 Chronicles 35:82 Chronicles 30:18They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the LORD’s house; and the workmen who labored in the LORD’s house gave it to mend and repair the house. See also: 2 Kings 22:5-62 Kings 12:142 Kings 12:11-12They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. See also: 2 Chronicles 33:4-72 Chronicles 33:22The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments. See also: 2 Kings 12:151 Chronicles 23:51 Chronicles 16:4-5Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. See also: Nehemiah 4:102 Chronicles 2:181 Chronicles 26:1-19When they brought out the money that was brought into the LORD’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the LORD’s law given by Moses. See also: Leviticus 10:11Jeremiah 8:8Ezra 7:10Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the LORD’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing. See also: 2 Kings 22:9-10Jeremiah 36:20-21They have emptied out the money that was found in the LORD’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and into the hand of the workmen.” Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king. See also: Joshua 1:8Psalms 119:46Deuteronomy 17:19When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. See also: Joshua 7:6Galatians 3:10-132 Kings 19:1The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, See also: 2 Kings 22:12Jeremiah 26:24Jeremiah 40:9“Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the LORD’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the LORD’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.” See also: Ezekiel 14:1-112 Chronicles 28:6Jeremiah 21:2So Hilkiah and those whom the king had commanded went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect. See also: Exodus 15:20Luke 2:36Luke 1:41-45She said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, See also: Jeremiah 37:7-102 Kings 22:15-20Jeremiah 21:3-7“The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:14-20Deuteronomy 28:15-68Joshua 23:16Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’ See also: Jeremiah 7:20Mark 9:43-48Nahum 1:6But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, you shall tell him this, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard, See also: 2 Chronicles 34:212 Chronicles 34:23because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD. See also: 2 Chronicles 32:26Psalms 34:18Ezekiel 9:4“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” They brought back this message to the king. See also: Psalms 37:37Isaiah 39:8Jeremiah 15:1Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. See also: 2 Kings 23:1-3Mark 14:81 Samuel 12:23The king went up to the LORD’s house with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small—and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Kings 23:2Exodus 24:7Deuteronomy 1:17The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. See also: 2 Chronicles 23:162 Kings 11:142 Chronicles 15:12He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. See also: 2 Chronicles 14:42 Chronicles 29:29Ecclesiastes 8:2Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:3-7Joshua 24:311 Kings 11:5-7
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 34:3
Ver. 3. Boy; 16 years old. D. --- The kings of Juda were in their minority, till they had completed their 13th year. Grotius. --- Cleansed. Heb. and Sept. "in the twelfth year he began to purify,"
&c. H. --- The work was not brought to perfection till six years afterwards, v. 8.
C. T.
↑ 32 Chronicles 34:4
Ver. 4. Idols. Heb. chammanim, (H.) "statues of the sun." The term often denotes those open enclosures, where sacred fire was kept in honour of the sun. C. --- Sept. "the heights above them." Syr. "he destroyed the altars, idols, tigers, and temples, (5) the bracelets, little bells, and all the trees which had been consecrated to idols." Arab. "the altars, idols, and leopards."
↑ 42 Chronicles 34:5
Ver. 5. Priests, whom he slew upon the altars, 4 K. xxiii.
↑ 52 Chronicles 34:6
Ver. 6. He. Heb. "with their swords, (C. Prot. mattocks) round about;" (H.) or,
"and in their deserts," the inhabitants being removed. Sept. "in their places around." Syr. and Arab. "in their public places." All the interpreters have read differently from what we find in Heb. at present.
Some may wonder that Josias should act thus, out of his own dominions. But the few Israelites who were left, had placed themselves under his protection; and as he made no ravages, and the Cuthites did not adopt the former superstitious practices of the country, they were not concerned to see the altars destroyed; nor were the kings of Assyria informed of, or interested to stop, these proceedings. C. --- Josias followed the directions of the priests and prophets; (M.) and many believe that the Assyrian monarch had given these territories to him, to hold, as his vassal; (T.) or God restored them to the lawful king, (v. 9) having promised all those countries to the family of David, for the express purpose of keeping up his own worship among his chosen people, and for exterminating idolatry. H.
↑ 62 Chronicles 34:8
Ver. 8. Eselias, or Assia. This man is alone mentioned, 4 K. xxii. 3. C.
↑ 82 Chronicles 34:11
Ver. 11. Houses, or apartments of the temple, which were gone to decay. H.
↑ 112 Chronicles 34:12
Ver. 12. Of music is expressed in Heb. and Sept. H. --- These Levites were chosen, because they were not so constantly employed in the temple, (C.) and they were not hired barely to inspect the works, and hence the expense was diminished.
↑ 122 Chronicles 34:13
Ver. 13. Masters: literally, "master porters." Prot. "officers and porters;" all Levites. H. ---
Jahath, &c. directed them that carried burdens, (C.) as the Hebrew intimates; and in general, all the officers were chosen from the same tribe. H.
↑ 132 Chronicles 34:17
Ver. 17. Together: lit. "melted down," as the Heb. and Sept. signify. Coin was not yet used. C.
--- But the pieces of money, of whatever description, were collected. H.
↑ 172 Chronicles 34:22
Ver. 22. Hasra. Olda's husband's grandfather is styled Araas, 4 K. xxii. H. ---
Second part of the city, near the temple, or near the second gate, or between the two walls. D.
↑ 222 Chronicles 34:28
Ver. 28. Peace. The country enjoyed peace, as Pharao was gone; (M.) and Josias did not witness the evils here denounced. T. --- This was a blessing. W.
↑ 282 Chronicles 34:33
Ver. 33. In Israel, who had fled into his dominions. See v. 6. C. --- They. Sept.
"he," &c. Josias worshipped God with all his heart: but all Israel paid him, at least, an external adoration. H.
↑ 33License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses