(9) Conaniah also . . . Jozabad.--The three names Conaniah, Shemaiah, and Jozabad, occurred as belonging to principal Levites under Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:12-15). They may be names of leading houses rather than persons.
35:1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord.
and Hashabiah, and Jehiel, and Jozabad, chief of the Levites; men of considerable substance, and in good posts and offices:
gave unto the Levites; their poor brethren of that order:
for passover offerings five thousand small cattle; lambs, or kids, or both:
and five hundred oxen; for the feast that followed the passover.