2 Chronicles 19:7

_AND SAID TO THE JUDGES, TAKE HEED WHAT YE DO: FOR YE JUDGE NOT FOR MAN, BUT FOR THE LORD, WHO IS WITH YOU IN THE JUDGMENT._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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

WHEREFORE NOW LET THE FEAR OF THE LORD BE UPON YOU,.... And act as having that before your eyes, and on your hearts: TAKE HEED AND DO IT; do the commands enjoined them by him, and do judgment according to the law of God: FOR THERE IS NO INIQUITY WITH THE LORD OUR GOD; none in his nature, nor in his law; none commanded nor approved of by him, and therefore none should be done by his representatives in judgment: NOR RESPECT OF PERSONS; whether high or low, rich or poor: NOR TAKING OF GIFTS; he accepts not the faces of men, nor receives bribes, nor should his judges; this is forbidden by him, Deuteronomy 16:19....

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....

FEAR. dread, as in 2 Chronicles 20:29. not as in 2 Chronicles 19:9 below, which is "reverence". RESPECT OF PERSONS. Closely following Deuteronomy 16:18. GIFTS. bribes....

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

REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT (CONTINUED) The chapter narrates how Jehoshaphat was reproved by the seer Jehu for helping Ahab, and how he instituted judges in the cities of Judah. This chapter is entirely supplementary to the account of Jehoshaphat as given in 1 K....

2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 19 JEHU’S *PROPHECY – 2 CHRONICLES 19:1-3 V1 Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned in peace to his house in Jerusalem. V2 The *prophet Jehu, son of Hanani went out to meet him. He said to the king, ‘You went to help evil people. You love those who hate the *LORD. Because of that, the *LORD is angry with you. V3 However, you have done some good things. You removed the *Asherah poles from this country. And you have tried to obey God.’ Verse 1 The battle of Ramoth in Gilead was the end of the war. Ahab was dead. The attack by the two k

WHEREFORE. — _And._ THE FEAR OF THE LORD. — _A dread,_ or _awe, of Jehovah._ (See 2 Chronicles 17:10.) TAKE HEED AND DO (a _hendiadys, i.e., act heedfully. deal warily_). INIQUITY — _i.e.,_ want of equity, unfairness, injustice _i’avlah_). To the marginal references add the prohibition, Deuteronomy 16:19. They who judge _for Jehovah_ (2 Chronicles 19:6) are bound to judge _like_ Jehovah....