The scribe’s chamber - The chancery in which the king’s business was conducted. Probably Elishama was one of the principal scribes of th…

And, lo, all the princes sat there. —The following particulars may be noted concerning the princes thus named. Elishama m…

It is not known with what purpose this Michaiah came to the princes and the king’s counselors; he may have been an informer, who intended to create…

Then he went down into the king's house The royal palace, which was not upon the mountain on which the temple stood, but …

Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to its power.

Here, the declaration to the princes is given.