--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse 2 Chronicles 31:1. Brake the images in pieces — This species of reformation was not only carried on through Judah, but they carried it into Israel;" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/31" --- Verse [2 Chronicles 31:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/1). ***Brake the images in pieces*** — This species of reformation was not only carried on through *Judah*, but they carried it into *Israel*; whether through a transport of religious zeal, or whether with the *consent* of Hoshea the Israelitish king, we cannot tell. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/2). ***In the gates of the tents of the Lord.*** — That is, in the temple; for this was the house, tabernacle, tent, and camp, of the Most High. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/3). ***The king's portion of his substance for the**********burnt-offerings*** — It is conjectured that the Jewish kings, at least from the time of David, furnished the morning and evening sacrifice daily at their own expense, and several others also. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/5). ***Brought - the first-fruits*** — These were principally for the maintenance of the priests and Levites; they brought tithes of all the produce of the field, whether commanded or not, as we see in the instance of *honey*, which was not to be offered to the Lord, [Leviticus 2:11](../../../kjv/leviticus/2/11), yet it appears it might be offered to the priests as *first-fruits*, or in the way of *tithes*. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/7). ***In the third month*** — "The month *Sivan*; the *seventh,* *Tisri*." - *Targum*. ***The heaps*** — The vast *collections of grain* which they had from the tithes over and above their own consumption; see [2 Chronicles 31:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/10). Verse [2 Chronicles 31:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/11). ***To prepare chambers*** — To make granaries to lay up this superabundance. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/12). ***Shimei*****- was*****the next.*** — He was assistant to Cononiah. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/15). ***And Miniamin*** — Instead of מנימן, *Miniamin*, בנימן, Benjamin, is the reading of three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.; and this is the reading of the *Vulgate, Syriac, Septuagint*, and *Arabic*. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/17). ***From twenty years old*** — Moses had ordered that the Levites should not begin their labour till they were *thirty* years of age; but David changed this order, and obliged them to begin at *twenty*. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/20). ***Wrought - good and right and truth*** — Here is the proper character of a worthy king: he is GOOD, and he does *good*; he is UPRIGHT, and he acts *justly* and maintains *justice*; he is *truly* RELIGIOUS, and he lives according to that *truth* which he receives as a revelation from God. Verse [2 Chronicles 31:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/21). ***He did*****it*****with all his heart*** — In every respect he was a thoroughly excellent man, saw his duty to God and to his people, and performed it with becoming zeal and diligence. 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