Category Archives: Commentary

Ezra 10

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Obedience to the Word of God Ezra 10     ContentsThe Congregation Offers to Put Away Strange Wives (10:1-6)The Proclamation for an Assembly of the Captivity (10:7-8)The People Assemble: The Return While Priests Sort Things Out (10:9-15)The People Put Away the Strange Wives, Their Names (10:16-44) The Congregation Offers to Put Away Strange […]

Ezra 3

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Rebuilding the Temple Ezra 3     ContentsInitial Assembly (3:1-7)Israel Assembled At Jerusalem (3:1-2)The Altar Built – Annual Feasts Begin – Freewill Offering (3:3-7)The Work of Building the Temple Commissioned (3:8-9)The Foundation Laid and the Results Among the People (3:10-13) Initial Assembly (3:1-7) Israel Assembled At Jerusalem (3:1-2) CHAPTER 3 1 And when […]

Ezra 4

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Attempts of the Adversaries to Stop the Work Ezra 4     ContentsUsing the Ploy That They Wanted to Help in the Work (4:1-3)Using Physical Persecution (4:4-5)Using Political Influence (4:6-24)A Manipulative Letter Written to Artaxerxes (4:6-16)Artaxerxes’ Response – Ordering the Work to Cease (4:17-22)The Work is Made to Cease (4:23-24) Using the […]

2 Chronicles 34

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Josiah: Purification, Restoration, the Recovery of the Word of God 2 Chronicles 34     CHAPTER 34 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of […]

2 Chronicles 35

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Josiah Celebrates the Passover, His Death 2 Chronicles 35     CHAPTER 35 1 And Josiah held a passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they slaughtered the passover on the fourteenth of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house […]

2 Chronicles 36

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Final Downfall: Jehoahaz, Eliakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah 2 Chronicles 36     CHAPTER 36 1 And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead, in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months […]

2 Chronicles 1

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Solomon 2 Chronicles 1 – 9   O U T L I N E – The Reign of Solomon 2 Chronicles 1 – 9 – God Appears to Solomon: His Wisdom and Wealth 2 Chronicles 1 – Solomon and Hiram: Preparation for the Temple 2 Chronicles 2 – The Structure […]

2 Chronicles 29

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Last Kings of Judah 2 Chronicles 29 – 36   O U T L I N E – The Last Kings of Judah 2 Chronicles 29 – 36 – Hezekiah Purifies the Kingdom 2 Chronicles 29 – The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread 2 Chronicles 30 – Hezekiah Sets in […]

2 Chronicles 30

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread 2 Chronicles 30     CHAPTER 30 1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to hold the passover to Jehovah the God of Israel. […]

2 Chronicles 31

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Hezekiah Sets in Order the House of God 2 Chronicles 31     CHAPTER 31 1 And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all […]

2 Chronicles 32

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Hezekiah’s Three Trials 2 Chronicles 32     CHAPTER 32 1 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to break into them. 2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was minded to […]

2 Chronicles 33

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Manasseh and the Reign of  Amon 2 Chronicles 33     CHAPTER 33 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had […]

2 Chronicles 24

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Joash 2 Chronicles 24     CHAPTER 24 1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Joash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah all the days of […]

2 Chronicles 25

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Amaziah 2 Chronicles 25     CHAPTER 25 1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not with a […]

2 Chronicles 26

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Uzziah 2 Chronicles 26     CHAPTER 26 1 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 2 It was he that built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. […]

2 Chronicles 27

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Jotham 2 Chronicles 27     CHAPTER 27 1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all […]

2 Chronicles 28

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Ahaz 2 Chronicles 28     CHAPTER 28 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was right in the sight of Jehovah, like David his father, 2 but walked in the ways of the […]

2 Chronicles 18 – 19

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehoshaphat’s Unequal Yoke with Ahab and Its Consequences 2 Chronicles 18 – 19     CHAPTER 18 1 And Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage. 2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab, to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for […]

2 Chronicles 20

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehoshaphat’s Victory over Ammon, Moab, and Edom 2 Chronicles 20     CHAPTER 20 1 And it came to pass after this that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. 2 And they came and told Jehoshaphat saying, A […]

2 Chronicles 21

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Reign of Jehoram 2 Chronicles 21     CHAPTER 21 1 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 2 And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, […]