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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:19 - 34:19
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The dismay of the king at the contents of the book which was read to him, and his inquiry of the prophetess Huldah as to the judgments threatened in the law. - Compare with this the parallel account in 2Ki 22:11-20, with the commentary there given, as both accounts agree with the exception of some unimportant variations in expression. Instead of Abdon ben Micah (2Ch 34:20) we find in 2 Kings Achbor ben Micayahu, perhaps the correct reading. In 2Ch 34:21, the expression, “and for those that are left in Israel and Judah,” i.e., for the remainder of the people who were left in Israel after the destruction of the kingdom, and in Judah after the divine chastisements inflicted, mainly by the Assyrians under Hezekiah and Manasseh, is clearer and more significant than that in 2Ki 22:13, “and for the people, and for all Judah.” נִתְּכָה, to pour itself forth (of anger), is quite as suitable as נִצְּתָה, inflame, kindle itself, in 2Ki 22:13. In 2Ch 34:22, those sent with the high priest Hilkiah are briefly designated by the words הַמֶּלֶךְ וַאֲשֶׁר, and whom the king, scil. had sent; in 2Ki 22:14, on the contrary, the individual names are recorded (Ewald, Gramm. §292, b, would supply אָמַר, after the lxx). The names of the ancestors of the prophetess Huldah also are somewhat different. כָּזֹאת, as the king had said to him, is omitted in 2 Kings. - In 2Ch 34:24, כָּל־הָאָלֹות, all the curses, is more significant than כָּל־דִּבְרֵי, 2Ki 22:16. וַתִּתַּךְ (2Ch 34:25) is a statement of the result of the עֲזָבוּנִי: Because they have forsaken me, my anger pours itself forth. In 2Ch 34:27, the rhetorical expansion of the words which God had spoken of Jerusalem in the law, וגו לְשַׁמָּה לִהְיֹות, inserted in 2Ki 22:19 as an elucidation, are omitted. After the preceding designation of these words as “the curses written in the law,” any further elucidation was superfluous. On the contents of the saying of the prophetess Huldah, see the commentary on 2Ki 22:16.