2 Chronicles 34:6-9

6 ¹In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding ruins,

7 he also tore down the altars and ²beat the Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Josiah Repairs the Temple

8 ³Now in the eighteenth * year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah ⁴an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

9 They came to ⁵Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the doorkeepers, had collected from ⁶Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 34

This chapter begins with the good reign of Josiah, the reformation he made in the land, purging it from idolatry, 2Ch 34:1-7, relates the orders he gave to repair the house of the Lord, which was accordingly done, 2Ch 34:8-13, when the book of the law was found and brought to him, which greatly affected him, 2Ch 34:12-19, upon which he deputed some persons to inquire of the Lord, who did of Huldah the prophetess, to whom she gave an answer, which they returned to the king, 2Ch 34:20-28 and the chapter is concluded with an account of reading the book in the ears of all the people, and of the king, and then making a covenant with the Lord to serve him, 2Ch 34:27-33.

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Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 23:15, 19
• 2. 2 Chronicles 31:1
• 3. 2 Kings 22:3-20
• 4. 2 Chronicles 18:25
• 5. 2 Chronicles 35:8
• 6. 2 Chronicles 30:10, 18

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "guardians of the threshold"
• [b]. Lit "from the hand of"