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**eight years.** Manasseh began at twelve, bred under godly Hezekiah. Josiah began at eight, bred by ungodly Amon. Contrast the two characters.
**Boscath.** In Judah. Compare [Joshua 15:39](../../../kjv/joshua/15/39) .

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**turned not aside.** Josiah is the only king of whom this is said.

**the eighteenth year.** Marks the completion of the work ([2 Kings 23:23](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/23) ). Begun in the twelfth year ([2 Chronicles 34:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/3) , [2 Chronicles 34:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/8) ). Jeremiah was called in Josiah's thirteenth year ([Jeremiah 1:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/2) ; [Jeremiah 25:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/3) ), and was to Josiah what Isaiah had been to Hezekiah.
**Shaphan.** Eight relatives mentioned in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles:
(1) His grandfather, Meshullam ([2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) );
(2) his father, Azaliah ([2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) );
(3) his son, Ahikam ([2 Kings 22:12](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/12) );
(4) his son, Gemariah ([Jeremiah 36:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/10) );
(5) his son, Elasah ([Jeremiah 29:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/3) );
(6) his son, Jaazaniah ([Ezekiel 8:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/8/11) );
(7) his grandson, Michaiah ([Jeremiah 36:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/11) , [Jeremiah 36:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/13) );
(8) his grandson, Gedaliah ( Jer 39:43 ).

**Hilkiah.** The son of Shallum and father of Azariah ([1 Chronicles 6:13](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/6/13) ). sum = pour out, or pay away.

**of the doers.** These were the overseers. to the doers. These were the labourers.

**the house.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, and Septuagint, read "the breaches of the house", as in [2 Kings 22:5](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/5) .

**the book of the law.** i.e. the original copy of the Pentateuch, laid up by the side of the Ark ([Deuteronomy 31:24-26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/31/24-26) ). Probably secreted during the reigns of Manasseh ([2 Kings 21:16](../../../kjv/2-kings/21/16) ) and Amon ([2 Kings 21:21](../../../kjv/2-kings/21/21) ). See App-47 .

**read it.** Especially those parts applicable to the then circumstances, such as [Leviticus 26](../../../kjv/leviticus/26) . [Deuteronomy 28](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28) . &c.

**he rent his clothes.** Not necessarily on account of his surprise, but on account of the solemnity of the words.

**Ahikara.** The friend of Jeremiah ([Jeremiah 26:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/24) ) and father of Gedaliah (Compare [2 Kings 25:22](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/22) .[Jeremiah 39:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/14) , [Jeremiah 40:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/40/5) ). See note on "Shaphan" ([2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) ).
**Achbor.** Not the same person as Abdon, in [2 Chronicles 34:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/20) .

**and for all Judah.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "and for the remnant in Israel and in Judah". Compare [2 Chronicles 34:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/21) . [2 Chronicles 6:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/6/4) ); Deborah ([Judges 4:4](../../../kjv/judges/4/4) ); Noadiah ([Nehemiah 6:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/6/14) ); Isaiah's wife ([Isaiah 8:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/3) ); Anna ([Luke 2:36](../../../kjv/luke/2/36) ); and Philip's daughters ([Acts 21:9](../../../kjv/acts/21/9) ).
**the wife.** Compare the usage ([Judges 4:4](../../../kjv/judges/4/4) ). The employment of a woman as prophet shows the degeneracy of the times, deplored by Isaiah ([2 Kings 9:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/9/15) ), denounced by Jeremiah ([2 Kings 5:7](../../../kjv/2-kings/5/7) , [2 Kings 5:8](../../../kjv/2-kings/5/8) ; [2 Kings 14:14](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/14) ; [2 Kings 23:14-30](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/14-30) ; 2Ki 37:19 . [Lamentations 2:14](../../../kjv/lamentations/2/14) ), and by Ezekiel ([2 Kings 13:2-23](../../../kjv/2-kings/13/2-23) ). Inferred also from Huldah's words (verses: [2 Kings 22:15-18](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/15-18) ), and [Jeremiah 5:31](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/31) .
**wardrobe:** i.e. vestry, or vestments.
**now.** Note the Figure of speech *Parenthesis.*
**in the college.** Hebrew in the second. Some supply "part", or "city". Probably = "second gate [of the city]". Compare [2 Chronicles 34:22](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/34/22) and [Zephaniah 1:10](../../../kjv/zephaniah/1/10) ,

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**evil.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .

**forsaken Me.** Huldah adopts the words of [Deuteronomy 29:25-27](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/25-27) .

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**As touching.** No Ellipsis here, but at end of verse. See below.
**heard, or hearkened to.** Supply Figure of speech *Ellipsis* thus: "Thus saith Jehovah Elohim: the words which thou hast hearkened to [shall surely come to pass]. In that thine heart was tender . . . I also have heard thee".

**Because** = In that.
**a desolation and a curse.** These words are from [Deuteronomy 11:26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/26) ; [Deuteronomy 28:15-19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/15-19) ; [Deuteronomy 29:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/19) ; [Deuteronomy 30:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/1) . Compare [Jeremiah 44:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/44/22) .

**gathered.** See note on [Genesis 49:33](../../../kjv/genesis/49/33) .
**thy grave.** Hebrew. *keber* (not Sheol). in [2 Kings 21:26](../../../kjv/2-kings/21/26) rendered sepulchre.
**in peace.** Josiah died in war ([2 Kings 23:29](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/29) ); but why not "in peace" of mind and heart as well? Compare [Isaiah 57:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/57/2) ,

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