2 Chronicles 32:30 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

2 Chronicles 32:30

28 storehouses for the harvest of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and¹ folds for flocks.

29 Moreover he provided cities for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for ^aGod had given him very much property.

30 ^aThis same Hezekiah also stopped the water outlet of Upper Gihon, and brought the water by tunnel to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah ^bprospered in all his works.

31 However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they ^asent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to ^btest him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

Death of Hezekiah

32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, indeed they are written in ^athe vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the ^bbook of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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I & II Chronicles

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them "words of days," that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, "of things omitted," that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, etc., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of "the Word of God" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare II Chronicles 19:7 with I Peter 1:17; II Chronicles 24:19-21 with Matthew 23:32-35).