"une.lMnneee" or "filthinel!I" &ix t imos, of this Rnd the following two verses are end " menslruous" onoo. The term, there- known, they do not designl\te, of course, the fore, is amon_g the strongest that oould be Mme persona. Through rul\uy a gencrntion need, and glances probably at the ebomina- of Levitee, the se.me names were, no doubt t.iolll!, or what,oever eort, that Aluu:'s idola- intentionally, reproduoed. triCI! had entailed (comp. ver. 16). Ver. 13.-ElimphBII (Exod. vi. 22). He Yer. 7.-1'his veree iB the answering echo wu chief of the Kohathites in the time of oh. xx,·iii. 24. of Moses (Numb. iii. 30; comp. 1 Chron. Ver. 8.-Wherefore the wrath. As illus- xv. 8). This family, though we do not trated by the defeats and humiliations suf- read why, seems always to have retained e. fered at the hands of Peknh and Haze.el, the separate existence. Philistines and Edomitea, and the Assyrian& Ver. 14.-Aaaph (former verse), Eeman, under 'figlath-Pileser. To trouble, to u- J'e4uthUll. These were the chiefs of the tonillhment, and to hissing. Three word~, singers and musicians (see, again, 1 Chron. carrying each a volume of meaning, and vi. 81-33, 89; x::r.v. 1-7; eh. v. 12). ohRrged with the most powerful Rnd pain- Ver. 15.-By the words of the Lord. The ful of remioisoence (Dent. xxviii. 25, 28, 32 Hebrew here (;i)n: •~1:)) me.y possibly [o1-rt>e our tier. 9], 37, 46, 65, 66). The mean," in the business of Jehovah," upon Hebrew word for "hissing" (;,p,.:!iz) occurs, which King Hezekiah was now intent. But besides, five times in Jeremiah (xix. 8; xxv. it is not by e.uy means needful so to under~ 9, 18; xxix. 18; li. 87), and once in the stand it. The words or commands of the contemporary Prophet l\Iicah ('l"i. 16; comp. Lord arc such as a.re written iu Exod. xix:. Jer. xni. 18). 22 ; Lev. xi. 44. Yer. 9.-(See eh. xxviii. 5, 8, 17.) Ver. 16.-The inner part. That is to say, Ver. 10.-To make a oovenant; Hebrew, only the priests were warranted to enter r,•~ ni~~ (eee eh. xv. 12, and our note inside the temple, while the Levites' sphere tliere). • of work and service lay in the courts and Ver. 11.-Be not now negligent ; Hebrew, round a.bout the temple. Xidron, e.s we he.ve seen (note eh. xxvii. 3), le.yon the eo.st -bir.',--':,i-:. This verb in kal (supposing it of the temple mount. • tlie· some verb) occurs but five times (Job Ver. 17.-They began . . . to sanctify. iii. 26; xii. 6; Ps. cxxii. 6; Jer. xii. 1; Thia is not the hitbp. conjugation (ver. 5), Lam. i. 5), the mdica.l idea of it being the and the whole verse probably purport~ to safctv of ease or security rather than any speak only of the sanctification of things, not ubsoiute safety. In niph. it is found only of the self-sanctifying of the official persons, in this place and in 2 Kings iv. 28, where which, whether it occupied longer or shorter the rendering of the Authorized Version, time, ha.cl. been alree.dy done. The sane, "Do not deceive me," will easily yield tifying of all outside, then, to the threshold, the some essential ide&. The derivative or porch, took eight days. So, manifestly, adjective (17.rz:) occurs eight times, and should be rendered, in the vau here found, always has the ae.m~ fie.vow- about _it (1 and. The sanctifying of the interior occu- Chron. iv. 40; Job xvL 12; xx. 20; xn. 23; pied another eight de.ye, and the legitimate Ps. Jn.iii. 12; Jer. xlix. 31; Ezek. :uii.L feast-day of the Passover, viz. the fourteenth 42; Zech. vii. 7). And the derivative nouns de.y of Nisan, became overlapped by two (i?l!i and ;-q7~) oocor nine times, and, at any days. Nevertheless, many may he.ve ob- rate in almosrt every instance evidently served the Passover on its strict date. ce.rrying the ea.me fun~amental }dea (PI!. Ver. 18.-This and the following verse xxx. 6: cxxii. 7; Prov. 1. 32; xvu. l; Jer. purport to say that, while all "filthiness " x:xii. 21; Ezek. xvi. 49; Da.n. viii. 25; xi. had been swept out and a.way to Kidron's 21, 2-l). Our Authorized Version, therefore, dark waters, all that had been polluted of sufficiently reproduces the thought of Heze- the proper furniture of the tewple and it~ kiah, though perhaps this would more ex- worship had now been cleansed and sa~c- actly come out of the rendering, "~ not tified by those who had been entrusted with now at eaae," i.£. se.crifice ease and self-indul- the work, and likewise the.t things mis- ge11ce etc. To 1e"e him ..• that ye should placed and removed had be~n !eplaced,. al~o mmister. The same verb is used in both after cleansing and sanctifying. This 1s theae places; so Reviaed Version, _To ~i~iBter the happy report that the priests bring now fJhtfo J.im, and that ye should be hu minuter~. to Hezekiah (eh. xxviii. 24; 2 Kings xvi. Ver. 12.-Then the Levites a.rose: . 'l;'hiB 14). verse gives two apiece of the three d1vmon_11 Ver. 20.-The rulerB of the city are its or•· families "-Gt:rshon, Kohath, and MerRrI, chief citizens-Hebrew, i•v.~ •J~ (eh. xxiv. "sons of Levi" (1 Chron. \'i. 1, 2, 16-20; 17; xxx. 1-4)-who bring contributions of x:xiii. G, 7, 12, 21, 24; comp. Gen. xJvi. 11; sacrificial victims, the word being generally Ernd. vi. 16). Though some of tl!e names rendered "princes." err. xxrx. 1-36.J THF, SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. 317
Ver. 21.-There is diversity or opinion, sins of the people-on the heacl of tho whothcr the aeven bullooks ( □'".IQ), aeven animBI (Lev. i. 4; iv. 4, etc.). rama (□•~•~), aeven lo.mba (□'\l';i?) were Ver. 24.-They made reoonoiliation with burnt offering (n7\JI), or, with the seven he• their blood upon the altar; Revised V ~rHion, and they made a sin offering with their l,wod, goats ( □',JJ/ ':!'!)~), were sin offering (mit?i::i), etc.; Hebrew, pie! future or Nr,>,i. The piel Some think (a.a, for instnnce, Cnnon Raw- linson) that they were sin offering, as the nc- conjugBtion occurs in all fourt13en times- oount of the offering of thorn ( ver. 22) takes seven times rendered " cleanse ; " twice priority for them over the he-goo.ta; others "purify;" twice, "offer for sin;'' once: (as Berthenu, Professor J. G. Murphy, eto.), " purge; " once, as here, '' make recoRci lia- tho.t they were certainly burnt offering. It tion; " e.nd once (Gen. xxxi. 39 "I bare 0