SEV Biblia, Chapter 34:9
Los cuales vinieron a Hilcías, sumo sacerdote, y dieron el dinero que había sido metido en la Casa del SEÑOR, que los levitas que guardaban la puerta habían recogido de mano de Manasés y de Efraín y de todas las reliquias de Israel, y de todo Judá y Benjamín, habiéndose después vuelto a Jerusalén.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 34:9
Verse 9. And they returned to Jerusalem.] Instead of wbyw vaiyashubu, "they returned," we should read ybwy yoshebey, "the inhabitants;" a reading which is supported by many MSS., printed editions, and all the versions, as well as by necessity and common sense. See the note on chap. xix. 8, where a similar mistake is rectified.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest , etc.] To whom they were sent to advise with about the repair of the temple: they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God ; that is, the high priest, and the Levites the doorkeepers, gave it to the king’s ministers; which money was either brought to the temple voluntarily, as the free gifts of the people, for the repairs; or rather what was collected by the Levites, sent throughout the land for that purpose, or it may be both: which the Levites that kept the doors ; of the temple; and received the money as the people brought it: and also had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah, and Benjamin ; they went throughout all the land of Israel and Judah, and collected money for the above purpose: and they returned to Jerusalem ; with it, which the high priest took the sum of, (see 2 Kings 22:4) of whom the king’s ministers now received it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Josiah's good reign in Judah. --As the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow-creatures, ou earliest youth should be dedicated to God, that we may not waste any of the remaining short space of life. Happy and wise are those who see the Lord and prepare for usefulness at an early age, when others ar pursuing sinful pleasures, contracting bad habits, and forming ruinou connexions. Who can express the anguish prevented by early piety, an its blessed effects? Diligent self-examination and watchfulness wil convince us of the deceitfulness and wickedness of our own hearts, an the sinfulness of our lives. We are here encouraged to humble ourselve before God, and to seek unto him, as Josiah did. And believers are her taught, not to fear death, but to welcome it, when it takes them awa from the evil to come. Nothing hastens the ruin of a people, nor ripen them for it, more than their disregard of the attempts made for their reformation. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. The current and tid of affections only turns at the command of Him who raises up those tha are dead in trespasses and sins. We behold peculiar loveliness, in the grace the Lord bestows on those, who in tender years seek to know an to love the Saviour. Hath Jesus, the Day-spring from on high, visite you? Can you trace your knowledge of this light and life of man, lik Josiah, from your youth? Oh the unspeakable happiness of becomin acquainted with Jesus from our earliest years __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויבאו 935 אל 413 חלקיהו 2518 הכהן 3548 הגדול 1419 ויתנו 5414 את 853 הכסף 3701 המובא 935 בית 1004 אלהים 430 אשׁר 834 אספו 622 הלוים 3881 שׁמרי 8104 הסף 5592 מיד 3027 מנשׁה 4519 ואפרים 669 ומכל 3605 שׁארית 7611 ישׂראל 3478 ומכל 3605 יהודה 3063 ובנימן 1144 וישׁבי 3427 ירושׁלם׃ 3389
