Kings II 23:23

23 He was honourable among the three, but he reached not to the three: and David made him his reporter. And these the names of King David's mighty men.

Kings II 23:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:23

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this
passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
] This shows that Josiah must begin the reformation very early that year, since he did all that is before recorded in this and the preceding chapter by the fourteenth of Nisan, the day on which the passover was kept, which month answers to part of our March and part of April, see ( 2 Kings 22:3 ) and was the same year the repairs of the temple were finished.

Kings II 23:23 In-Context

21 He smote an Egyptian, a wonderful man, and in the hand of the Egyptian a spear as the side of a ladder; and he went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

22 These things did Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

23 He was honourable among the three, but he reached not to the three: and David made him his reporter. And these the names of King David's mighty men.

24 Asael Joab's brother; he among the thirty. Eleanan son of Dudi his uncle in Bethleem.

25 Saema the Rudaean.

Footnotes

• [a]. appointed him to his hearings.