Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Overview
Ch2 35:1, Josiah keeps a most solemn passover; Ch2 35:20, He provoking Pharaoh-necho, is slain at Megiddo; Ch2 35:25, Lamentations for Josiah.
Josiah: The whole solemnity was performed with great exactness according to the law, and upon that account there was none like it since Samuel's time; for even in Hezekiah's passover there were several irregularities. Bp. Patrick observes, that in this also it exceeded the other passovers which preceding things had kept, that though Josiah was by no means so rich as David, or Solomon, or Jehoshaphat, yet he furnished the congregation with beasts for sacrifice, both paschal and eucharistical, at his own proper cost and charge, which was more than any king ever did before. 2Chr. 30:1-27; Kg2 23:21-23
the fourteenth: Exo 12:6; Num 9:3; Deu 16:1-8; Ezr 6:19; Eze 45:21; Josiah's solemnization of the passover, which is merely alluded to at Kg2 23:21, is very particularly related her, while the destruction of idolatry is largely related in the Kings, and here only touched upon. The feasts of the Lord God, appointed by the ceremonial law, were very numerous; but the passover was the chief. It was the first which was solemnized in the night wherein Israel came out of Egypt, and ushered in those which were afterwards instituted, and it was the last great feast which was held in the night wherein Christ was betrayed, before the vail of the temple was rent in twain. Be means of this feast, both Josiah and Hezekiah revived religion in their day.
charges: Ch2 23:8, Ch2 23:18, Ch2 31:2; Num 18:5-7; 1Chr. 24:1-31; Ezr 6:18
encouraged: Ch2 29:5-11, Ch2 31:2; Ch1 22:19
the Levites: Ch2 17:8, Ch2 17:9, Ch2 30:22; Deu 33:10; Neh 8:7, Neh 8:8; Mal 2:7
in the house: Ch2 5:7
not be: Num. 4:15-49; Ch1 23:26
serve now: Num 8:19, Num 16:9, Num 16:10; Co2 4:5
the houses: 1Chr. 9:10-34; Neh 11:10-20
after your courses: The regulations formed by David, and established by Solomon, concerning the courses of the priests and Levites, were committed to writing, and preserved, for them to refer to continually. Josiah, as well as Hezekiah, required the priests and Levites to attend to their several duties, and encouraged them therein, but he neither added, altered, not retrenched anything. he merely enforced what had been established in the law, and in the regulations made by David and the contemporary prophets: "the commandment of the king....was by the word of the Lord." 1Chr. 23:1-26:32
and according: Ch2 8:14
And stand: Psa 134:1, Psa 135:2
families of the fathers: Heb. house of the fathers
people: Heb. sons of the people.
So kill: Ch2 30:15-17; Exo 12:6, Exo 12:21, Exo 12:22; Ezr 6:20, Ezr 6:21
sanctify: Ch2 29:5, Ch2 29:15, Ch2 29:34, Ch2 30:3, Ch2 30:15-19; Gen 35:2; Exo 19:10, Exo 19:15; Num 19:11-20; Job 1:5; Psa 51:7; Joe 2:16; Heb 9:13, Heb 9:14
Josiah: Ch2 7:8-10, Ch2 30:24; Isa 32:8; Eze 45:17
gave: Heb. offered, Kg1 8:63
thirty thousand: According to the calculation, that not fewer than ten, nor more than twenty persons, were to join for one kid or lamb, the numbers given on this occasion would suffice for above 400,000 persons.
the king's substance: Kg1 8:63; Ch1 29:3
his princes: Ch2 29:31-33; Ch1 29:6-9, Ch1 29:17; Ezr 1:6, Ezr 2:68, Ezr 2:69, Ezr 7:16, Ezr 8:25-35; Neh 7:70-72; Psa 45:12; Act 2:44, Act 2:45, Act 4:34, Act 4:35
gave: Heb. offered
Hilkiah: Ch2 34:14-20
rulers: Ch1 9:20, Ch1 24:4, Ch1 24:5; Jer 29:25, Jer 29:26; Act 4:1, Act 5:26
gave: Heb. offered, Isa 1:10-15; Jer 3:10, Jer 7:21-28; Mic 6:6-8
the priests: Ch2 35:4, Ch2 35:5, Ch2 30:16; Ezr 6:18
the priests: Ch2 29:22-24, Ch2 30:16; Lev 1:5, Lev 1:6; Num 18:3, Num 18:7; Heb 9:21, Heb 9:22
flayed them: Ch2 29:34
as it is written: Lev 3:3, Lev 3:5, Lev 3:9-11, Lev 3:14-16
roasted: Exo 12:8, Exo 12:9; Deu 16:7; Psa 22:14; Lam 1:12, Lam 1:13
sod: Lev 6:28; Num 6:19; Sa1 2:13-15
divided them speedily: Heb. made them run, Rom 12:11
because the priests: Act 6:2-4
place: Heb. station
according: Ch2 29:25, Ch2 29:26; Ch1 16:41, Ch1 16:42, Ch1 23:5, Ch1 25:1-7; Psa 77:1, Psa 78:1, Psa 79:1 *titles
the porters: Ch1 9:17-19, Ch1 26:14-19
present: Heb. found
the feast: Ch2 30:21-23; Exo 12:15-20, Exo 13:6, Exo 13:7, Exo 23:15, Exo 34:18; Lev 23:5-8; Num 28:16-25; Deu 16:3, Deu 16:4, Deu 16:8; Co1 5:7, Co1 5:8
there was no passover: Not one on purer principles, more heartily joined in by the people present, more literally or exactly consecrated, according to the law, or more religiously observed. The words do not refer to the number present, but to the manner and spirit. Ch2 30:5; Kg2 23:21-23
neither did: Ch2 30:26, Ch2 30:27
am 3394, bc 610
temple: Heb. house
Necho: Pharaoh, the lame, says the Targumist. Kg2 23:29, Kg2 23:30, Pharaoh-necho, Jer 46:2-12
Charchemish: Isa 10:9
What: Sa2 16:10; Mat 8:29; Joh 2:4
house wherewith I have war: Heb. house of my war
forbear thee: Ch2 25:19
Nevertheless: Josiah's conduct in this affair has been treated with great severity; and he has been charged with engaging rashly in an unjust war, and disregarding the express command of God. But Scripture no where condemns him; and Pharaoh, in marching through Josiah's territories, against his will, certainly committed an act of hostility. It is evident that Josiah was in possession of the whole land of Israel (Ch2 26:6); and probably he held the northern parts of it as a grant from the king of Babylon; and was not only in alliance with him, but bound to guard his frontiers against hostile invaders. He may, therefore, be fairly justified from the charge of unjustly meddling in a war that did not belong him. It is true the ambassadors assured Josiah, that "God had commanded Pharaoh to make haste;" and he is therefore said not to have "hearkened to the words of Necho, from the mouth of God." But Necho produced no proof that he was a prophet of Jehovah; and the word he employed, elohim, may denote gods or idols; and critics have noticed that the expression, "from the mouth of God," is not used when the true God is meant.
but disguised: Ch2 18:29; Kg1 14:2, Kg1 22:30, Kg1 22:34
the mouth: Ch2 35:21, Ch2 18:4-6; Jos 9:14
Megiddo: Jdg 5:19; Kg2 9:27, Kg2 23:30; Zac 12:11, Megiddon, Rev 16:16, Armageddon
the archers: Ch2 18:33; Gen 49:23; Kg2 9:24; Lam 3:13
wounded: Heb. made sick, Kg1 22:34; Kg2 8:29
the second: Gen 41:43
they: Kg2 23:30
died: Psa 36:6; Ecc 8:14, Ecc 9:1, Ecc 9:2
in one of the: or, among the, Ch2 34:28
Judah: Zac 12:11
all the singing: Job 3:8; Ecc 12:5; Jer 9:17-21; Mat 9:23
and made them: Jer 22:20
goodness: Heb. kindness, Ch2 31:20, Ch2 32:32
deeds: Ch2 20:34, Ch2 24:27, Ch2 25:26, Ch2 26:22, Ch2 32:32, Ch2 33:19; Kg2 10:34, Kg2 16:19, Kg2 20:20; Kg2 21:25