CHAP. X, 1." of Jezreel;"

"civitatis," Vul

gate; Zapagalas, LXX; 1, one MS. of Kennicott's. Jezreel must be a false reading.

Verse 15. "Is thine heart right?" literally, "is

right with thy heart;" i. e. Art thou a warm friend to justice? But I would read the whole

passage thus,

היש את לבבך ישר כאשר את לבבי: ויאמר יהונדב יש לבבי עם לבבך : ויש תנה .c&

"Is justice in thy heart as in my heart? And Jonadab said, It is; my heart is with thy heart. Since it is, give thy hand," &c.

Verse 22. -" vestments for all the worshippers of Baal." See Lowth, the father, on Zeph. i, 8.

Verse 26." the images---burnt them;" rather, with LXX and Vulgate, "the image--burnt it." The is omitted in the word in many of Kenup nicott's best MSS., which give the singular, and the pronominal suffix is singular in the printed

text.

Verse 36.-"twenty and eight years;" i. e. twenty. eight years complete. See chap. xiii, 1.

CHAP. Xi, 4. The story of Jehoiada's conspiracy in favour of the infant king Joash is much more distinctly related in the second book of Chronicles, chap. xxiii.

Verse 5." And he commanded them"

The

commands given to the end of the 8th verse were given to the priests and Levites; for none but the priests and the Levites upon duty were to enter the sanctuary. See 2 Chron. xxiii, 4-8.

Houbigant's transposition of the 8th verse is plausible: he subjoins it to this 5th verse,

Verse 6." of the house that it be not broken down." pin atrio ejectionum." Houbigant.

Verse 8. See note on verse 5.

Verse 12.-" and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony;" rather, "and put upon him the crown and the ensigns of royalty." -" Insigne regium." Houbigant. See 2 Chron. xxiii, 11. Verse 13." of the guard and of the people." Read, with the LXX, the Vulgate, and the parallel place in Chronicles, Dyn, "of the people running."

,העם הרוצים

Verse 14. by a pillar." y. 2 Chron.

העמוד

xxiii, 13, 17 by. So of Josiah, chap. xxiii, 3,

.על עמודו

The .על עמדו ,31 ,and 2 Chron. xxxiv ; על העמוד

LXX, in this place, have in rov Gruhov in the parallel place, 2 Chron. xxiii, 13, ÉTI TNS OTROEWS Avtov, in chap. xxiii, 3, #gos Tov σTuhov. in 2 Chron. xxxiv,

31, έπι τον στύλον. The Vulgate, in this place, has 66 super tribunali:" in 2 Chron. xxxiv, 31, "in tribunali suo:" in chap. xxiii, 3, and in 2 Chron. xxiii, 13, super gradum." Tremellius thinks that this pillar was Solomon's brazen scaffold, mentioned in 2 Chron. vi, 13.

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Chap. xii, 2. —" all his days, wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him;" rather, "all his days whilst Jehoiada the priest instructed him." Compare 2 Chron. xxiv, 2.

Verse 4. “All the money," &c. In the second book of Chronicles, chap. xxiv, we are told that the priests and Levites were sent through the country to collect a tax, which seems to have been the halfshekel tax paid by every one who attained the age of twenty. The money mentioned here is what was paid for the redemption of vows

given as an offering of free will.

(Levit. xxvii), or

The chest, with

the hole in the lid, in Chronicles, is set at the gate, on the outside. The chest here was to contain the redemption-money and the voluntary offerings. It should seem therefore that, in this place, and in 2 Chron. xxiv, we have different parts of the story, and that the whole progress of the business was after this manner:

First, the king sent the priests and Levites through the country to collect the poll-tax, and gave in charge to apply the money raised to the reparation of the temple. The priests and Levites embezzled the money, and nothing was done to the temple in the space of almost twenty-three years. The king, therefore, took the business out of their hands. He contracted with architects for the repairs, and he prepared two boxes, each with a hole in the lid, to receive the money. The one was placed at the entrance of the gate of the temple to receive the polltax, which the people were ordered by proclamation to bring thither. The other was placed within the temple, near the altar of burnt-offering, on the right hand of those who were entering to receive the money payable to the priests for the redemption of vows, and any voluntary vows. Each priest was to put into this box the money which he received from every bargain of redemption, and every voluntary gift, as each sum came in, and not to keep it to accumulate in his own hands.

-“ even the money of every one that passeth the account;" rather, "the money which every one maketh over," by virtue of the bargain of redemption made with the priest.

Verse 5.- σε every man from his acquaintance.” -άvng άτo τng #gασews autov, LXX. For 1, they seem to have read 1, "every man from his sale." By the sale, I understand the bargain made for the redemption of a vow. Each priest was to have the custody of the money arising from the bargains which

he made.

Verse 7.-"no more money of your acquaintance;"" no more money from your sales," LXX. See verse 5.

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Verse 13. " Howbeit there was not made the money that was brought into the house of the Lord." By the money brought into the house of the Lord, I understand what was collected in the box within the temple. The whole of this was expended on the repairs, and part of the poll-tax collected in the box without the gate. But of this there was a remainder, which was laid out upon the furniture of the sanctuary. See 2 Chron. xxiv, 14.

Verse 15. -" for they dealt faithfully;" rather, "for they dealt upon honour."

Verse 18." and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and he went away from Jerusalem." This therefore was an invasion of Hazael, earlier than that related