2 Chronicles 19:10

Verse 2 Chronicles 19:10. _BETWEEN BLOOD AND BLOOD_] Cases of man-slaughter or accidental murder, or cases of _consanguinity_, the settlement of inheritance, family claims, c. _BETWEEN LAW AND COMMANDMENT_] Whatsoever concerns the _moral_ _precepts, rites_, and _ceremonies_, of the law, or whatsoever belongs to _civil_ affairs....

The Jews who “dwelt in the cities,” if dissatisfied with the decision given by the provincial judges, might therefore remove the cause to Jerusalem, as to a court of appeal....

EXPOSITION The matter of this chapter is preserved for us by the writer of Chronicles alone, and is of much significance. After glancing at the moment's outward "peace" (2 Chronicles 19:1), which Jehoshaphat had on his return to Jerusalem, the narrative, leaving in deep oblivion all he must have thought and felt and may have spoken of the end of his brother-king, and of his own late private intimacy and public alliance with him, tells how he was reined up by Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer (2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 19:3); and thereupon how he wisely revisited his kingdom, as it were through its length and breadth, sought to "bring them back to the Lord God of their fathers

AND WHAT CAUSE SOEVER SHALL COME UNTO YOU OF YOUR BRETHREN THAT DWELL IN THEIR CITIES,.... Whether sacred or civil, that should come before them by way of appeal from, inferior courts in the country, where they could not be determined: BETWEEN BLOOD AND BLOOD; one relation and another, or with respect to shedding of blood, whether ignorantly or purposely: BETWEEN LAW AND COMMANDMENT, STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS; not rightly understood, and so pleaded on both sides: YE SHALL EVEN WARN THEM THAT THEY TRESPASS NOT AGAINST THE LORD; the persons engaged in controversy, that they take no false oath, nor bear false testimony, and act not stubbornly against any of the laws, when explained in court unto them: AND SO WRATH COME UPON YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN; upon judges for the neglect of their duty in giving due warning, and upon the people for not taking it when given: this do, and ye shall not tr

CHAPTER 19 REBUKE AND RESTORATION _ 1. The rebuke by the prophet (2 Chronicles 19:1)_ 2. Further revival and restoration (2 Chronicles 19:4) At sun-down Ahab, the King of Israel died, while his ally Jehoshaphat, saved through the mercy of God, returned to his home in peace in Jerusalem. Then Jelin, the son of Hanani, met him. Asa, the father of Jehoshaphat, had been rebuked by Hanani, and had put him in prison for it. The son of Hanani rebukes Jehoshaphat. We read no answer from the king, but his actions show that the rebuke went home to his conscience. He must have repented of the unholy alliance with the enemy of the Lord. Jehu said to him, “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.”

Jehu the prophet reproves Jehoshaphat for having allied himself with Ahab. These verses are mainly from the Chronicler, but see 1 Kings 16:1 ff. 2 CHRONICLES 19:4. This section, a kind of _midrash_ on the name Jehoshaphat (= Yahweh judgeth), is also from the Chronicler; he imagines the judicial arrangements of his own day to have been already in existence in much earlier times. The section is, in a sense, analogous to 2 Chronicles 17:7....

WARN. Used of warning or enlightenment as to God's word (Psalms 19:11). Out of twenty-two occurrences fifteen are in Ezekiel. TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'asham._ App-44....

_And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren_ R.V. AND WHENSOEVER ANY CONTROVERSY SHALL COME TO YOU FROM YOUR BRETHREN. _between blood and blood_ To decide between one kind of blood-shedding and another, i.e. between manslaughter and murder. Deuteronomy 17:8. _between law and commandment_ To decide what particular ordinance applies to a particular case. _ye shall even warn them_ R.V. YE SHALL WARN THEM. Cp. Ezekiel 3:17-21. _that they trespass not against_ R.V. THAT THEY BE NOT GUILTY TOWARDS. Cp. Isaiah 24:6 ("found guilty" R.V.). _wrath_ Heb. _qeçeph_; see note on...

5. THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT (17-21:3) TEXT 2 Chronicles 17:1. And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 2. And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3. And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baalim, 4. but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. 5. Therefore Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance. 6. And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah. 7. Also in the third year of his reign he sent his pri

19:10 warn (a-30) Strictly, 'enlighten,' 'teach.' see Exodus 18:20 ; Psalms 19:11 ....