2 Chronicles 34:6

Contextual Overview

¹Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he ruled thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹ Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: 2 Chronicles 30:1, 2 Chronicles 30:10, 2 Chronicles 30:11, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Kings 23:15-20

mattocks: or, mauls, 1 Samuel 13:20, 1 Samuel 13:21, Proverbs 25:18, Isaiah 7:25

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:19 - the cities Isaiah 17:8 - he shall Hosea 8:6 - shall Amos 3:14 - I will Micah 1:7 - all the graven

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali,.... Which though they belonged to the ten tribes, yet these being carried captive by the king of Assyria, they that were left became subject to the kings of Judah,

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with their mattocks round about; or hammers or mauls, as Kimchi, or pick axes, such sort of instruments as were used in demolishing altars and images: the Targum is,

"in the house of their desolation;''

and so other versions, "in their desolate places" x, which were become such, the inhabitants being carried captive, and few left behind.

x בתרבתיהם "in desolatis locis suis, [vel] eorum", Montanus, Tigurine version, Rambachius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The power of Assyria being now (629-624 B.C.) greatly weakened, if not completely broken, Josiah aimed not merely at a religious reformation, but at a restoration of the kingdom to its ancient limits (see the 2 Kings 23:19 note).

With their mattocks ... - Or “in their desolate places” (comparePsalms 109:10; Psalms 109:10). Another reading gives the sense, “he proved their house round about.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 34:6. The cities of Manasseh — Even those who were under the government of the Israelitish king permitted their idols and places of idolatry to be hewn down and destroyed: after the truth was declared and acknowledged, the spade and the axe were employed to complete the reformation.