2 Chronicles 34 Footnotes
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34:1 Josiah reigned from 640–609 BC. Assyria’s power declined during this period, allowing Josiah greater independence and freedom of action.
34:2 Along with Josiah, Hezekiah is the only other king who is compared to David in a positive manner (29:2).
34:3 In the “eighth year” Josiah would have been sixteen years old, and twenty years old in his twelfth year (the year of his majority) when he began his cleansing of Judah.
34:6 After the fall of Samaria in 722 BC Josiah would have had more influence on the former northern kingdom. Although still officially an Assyrian province, that empire was preoccupied with power struggles in Mesopotamia.
34:8 Josiah was now twenty-six years old and exerting his full authority as king.
34:14 Many if not most scholars believe this “book of the law” was the book of Deuteronomy. Because it is referred to as the “book of the covenant” (34:30; Ex 24:7; 2Kg 23:2, 21), it is also possible that the entire five books of Moses were present together.