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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. See also: Joshua 15:392 Chronicles 34:1-33Jeremiah 1:2He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left. See also: Deuteronomy 5:32Joshua 1:72 Kings 18:3In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the LORD’s house, saying, See also: 2 Chronicles 34:3-33“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into the LORD’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people. See also: 2 Kings 12:42 Kings 12:8-112 Chronicles 8:14Let them deliver it into the hand of the workers who have the oversight of the LORD’s house; and let them give it to the workers who are in the LORD’s house, to repair the damage to the house, See also: 2 Kings 12:11-142 Kings 12:52 Chronicles 24:27to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. However, no accounting shall be asked of them for the money delivered into their hand, for they deal faithfully.” See also: 2 Kings 12:151 Corinthians 4:2Nehemiah 7:2Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the LORD’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. See also: Deuteronomy 31:24-262 Chronicles 34:14-28Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of the LORD’s house.” See also: Jeremiah 39:14Jeremiah 29:3Jeremiah 36:10-12Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me.” Then Shaphan read it before the king. See also: Jeremiah 36:21Jeremiah 36:6Deuteronomy 17:18-20When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. See also: 2 Chronicles 34:19Joel 2:13Jonah 3:6-7The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying, See also: Jeremiah 26:242 Kings 25:222 Kings 19:2-3“Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the LORD’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.” See also: Nehemiah 9:3Exodus 20:5James 1:22-25So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her. See also: Judges 4:42 Chronicles 34:22Luke 1:41-56She said to them, “The LORD the God of Israel says, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, See also: Jeremiah 23:282 Kings 1:162 Kings 1:6“The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. See also: Daniel 9:11-14Joshua 23:15Deuteronomy 32:15-26Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’” See also: 2 Kings 21:22Jeremiah 17:27Judges 10:6-7But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him, “The LORD the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard, See also: 2 Chronicles 34:26-28Isaiah 3:10Malachi 3:16-17because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,’ says the LORD. See also: Psalms 51:171 Kings 21:29Isaiah 57:15‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king. See also: Psalms 37:37Isaiah 57:1-21 Chronicles 17:11
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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 Kings 22:1
Ver. 1. Eight years. After he had reigned other eight, being still but a boy, he began more seriously to seek the Lord, and purified his dominions, and the neighbouring country, from all the vestiges of idolatry. 2 Par. xxxiii. 3. He was one of the three most excellent kings of Juda, (H.) and might be said to be the last; as those who followed were displaced at pleasure by Egypt, &c.
D.
↑ 12 Kings 22:3
Ver. 3. Scribe of. Heb. "to the temple." Chal. Syr. &c. It is not certain that there was such an officer as scribe of the temple; but the king's secretary was ordered by Joas to take an account of the money contributed, C. xii. 10. C. ---
Josias followed the same plan. T.
↑ 32 Kings 22:4
Ver. 4. Together, so as to be reduced into a mass, and refined by fire. Pagnin.
--- Sept. "seal up the money." Prot. "that he may sum the silver which," &c. H.
--- Let him make all be paid up that is due, (Piscat.) and cease to demand any more. --- Door-keepers. Their office was of some consequence. 1 Par. ix. 26. 29.
C.
↑ 42 Kings 22:5
Ver. 5. Overseers, or undertakers. Grotius. --- People of the great respectability were selected, so that no reckoning with them was requisite, v. 7. H. --- They were thus encouraged to do the work with greater perfection. C.
↑ 52 Kings 22:8
Ver. 8. The book of the law, (that is, Deuteronomy. Ch. --- S. Chrys. hom. 9. in Mat.) or the Pentateuch. Joseph. --- Achaz, Manasses, and Amon, had burnt (R.
Solomon) as many copies as they could, (H.) but some zealous priests had concealed this copy, in a box, in the wall of the temple, (Lyran) or in the treasury adjoining it. The very hand writing of Moses, containing the record of the covenant, (or the 28, 29, 30, and 31st chapters of Deuteronomy) which was placed in (C.) or beside the ark, was now happily discovered. H. --- It seems it had been misplaced, as the ark itself had been removed, 2 Par. xxiv. 14. and xxxv. 3. This venerable monument, and the dreadful menaces which it denounced, made the deepest impression upon all, as we should read the autographs of S. Matthew, &c. with far greater respect and emotion than we do the printed copies. It is not at all probably that all the books of Scripture had been destroyed, as there were always some religious souls in both kingdoms; and if some kings had already made the impious attempt, (H.) of which, however, they are never accused in Scripture, they would not have been able to carry their malicious designs into effect. Josias had, before his 18th year, made many excellent regulations, conformably to the law, which was well understood, and carefully preserved by the priests and prophets. C. 2 Par. xvii.
9. --- Read it. Scribes were generally chosen from among the Levites. C.
↑ 82 Kings 22:11
Ver. 11. Garments, through zeal for God's honour, and fear of his indignation.
M.
↑ 112 Kings 22:14
Ver. 14. Holda. She is known only by this honourable embassy. It is rather wonderful that Jeremias was not consulted, as he had began to prophesy five years before. But he probably resided at Anathoth. Sophonias appeared, perhaps, only towards the end of the reign of Josias.
C. --- The Second, a street, or part of the city so called; in Hebrew, Massem.
Ch. --- The Sept.
retain this word, (M.) or rather, "in Masena;" Heb. mishne. H. --- Manasses inclosed Jerusalem with a second wall, (2 Par. xxxiii. 14. C.) unless this was done by his father, ib. xxxii. 5. T. ---
Here Holda is said to have kept a school. C. --- Chal. "the house of doctrine," a lace next in importance to the temple. Vatab. --- S. Jerom speaks of this Second, as of a gate, or part of Jerusalem, between the inner and the outer wall. C. Pelag, 2 Irad. in 2 Par. and in Sophon. i. 10.
M.
↑ 142 Kings 22:20
Ver. 20. Peace, before these horrors overtake the city. Josias was interred with all the usual honours, have fallen in battle. C. xxiii. 29. C. --- Instead of peace, the Alex. Sept. reads, "in Jerusalem," to which city Josias was brought from Mageddo, where he had perhaps rashly attacked the king of Egypt, with whom he had not been engaged in war. H. --- This last good king was given to Juda, that he people might not pretend that they were forced to embrace idolatry by the royal power. S. Jer. D.
↑ 20License: 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