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2 Kings 23:28

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As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KJV

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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This verse in 2 Kings 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ambrose of Milan

CONSOLATION ON THE DEATH OF EMPEROR VALENTINIAN 57 · Written before 397.

Nobody must think that anything was detracted to the celerity of death because of one's merits. Enoch was kidnapped, lest malice might spoil his heart, and Josiah, who celebrated the Passover of the Lord in the eighteenth year of his reign in such a manner that he overcame in piousness all the previous kings, did not survive longer through the merits of his faith. No, rather, because grievous destruction threatened the Jewish people, the just king was taken away beforehand.

This site's exposition

book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah

on 2 Kings 23:28-30

The closing formula points to a fuller record, and the narrative turns at once to Pharaoh Necho's march toward the Euphrates to aid the failing Assyrian empire against Babylon. Josiah goes out to meet him and is slain at Megiddo, a death the text gives one clause, though 2 Chron 35:22-25 adds that Josiah went disguised into the battle and that Jeremiah lamented him. His servants carry his body home in a chariot, and the people crown Jehoahaz in his place, the reform's champion buried while his kingdom's fortunes turn.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did,.... For abolishing idolatry, and restoring the true worship of God: are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? and also of Israel, in which an account was kept of the transactions of their reign; many other of the acts of Josiah are recorded in the canonical book of Chronicles, 2Ch 34:1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Josiah lived for 13 years after the celebration of his great Passover. Of this period we know absolutely nothing, except that in the course of it he seems to have submitted himself to Nabopolassar; who, after the fall of Nineveh, was accepted as the legitimate successor of the Assyrian monarchs by all the nations of the western coast. Josiah, after perhaps a little hesitation (see Jer 2:18, Jer 2:36), followed the example of his neighbors, and frankly accepted the position of an Assyro-Babylonian tributary.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְיֶ֛תֶרand [the] rest of

    veyeterH3499 →102 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] matters of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּJosiah

    yoshiyahuH2977 →53 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֑הhe did

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • הֲלֹא־¿ not

    halo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הֵ֣ם[are] they

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • כְּתוּבִ֗יםwritten

    ketuvimH3789 →224 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • סֵ֛פֶר[the] scroll of

    seferH5612 →186 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] matters of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • הַיָּמִ֖יםthe days

    haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • לְמַלְכֵ֥יof [the] kings of

    lemalkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָֽה׃Judah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

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    2 Kings 20:20

    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 3:16

      Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth-zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the…

    • 2 Chronicles 32:32

      As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the…

    • 2 Chronicles 32:4

      Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

    • 2 Chronicles 32:30

      It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

    • Isaiah 22:9–11

      You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 23 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, CONSOLATION ON THE DEATH OF EMPEROR VALENTINIAN 57; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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