and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
We may well imagine the bad posture of affairs in Jerusalem during Athaliah's six years' usurpation, and may wonder that God permitted it and his people bore it so long; but after such a dark and tedious night the returning day in this revolution was the brighter and the more welcome.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 23:1-11
And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD. (c) Which was the chief gate of the temple toward the east.
2Ch 23:4-6 The case is similar with the contradictions in the account of the carrying out of the arrangements agreed upon. In Bertheau’s view, this is the state of the case: According to 2Ki 11:5-8, the one part of the body-guard, which on Sabbath mounted guard in the royal palace, were to divide themselves into three bands: one third was to keep the guard of...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 23:4-6