2 Chronicles 26:6

_AND HE WENT FORTH AND WARRED AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, AND BRAKE DOWN THE WALL OF GATH, AND THE WALL OF JABNEH, AND THE WALL OF ASHDOD, AND BUILT CITIES ABOUT ASHDOD, AND AMONG THE PHILISTINES._ Went forth and warred against the Philistines. He overcame them in many engagements dismantled their towns, and erected fortified cities in various parts of the country, to keep them in subjection. JABNEH - the same as Jabneel (Joshua 15:11). GUR-BAAL - is thought by some to be Gerar, and by others Gebal....

1-15 As long as Uzziah sought the Lord, and minded religion, God made him to prosper. Those only prosper whom God makes to prosper; for prosperity is his gift. Many have owned, that as long as they sought the Lord, and kept close to their duty, they prospered; but when they forsook God, every thing went cross. God never continues either to bless the indolent or to withhold his blessing from the diligent. He will never suffer any to seek his face in vain. Uzziah's name was famed throughout all the neighbouring countries. A name with God and good people makes truly honourable. He did not delight in war, nor addict himself to sports, but delighted in husbandry....

Uzziah’s expedition was the natural sequel to the Edomite war of Amaziah 2 Chronicles 25:11, which crushed the most formidable of all the tribes of the south. On Jabneh see Joshua 15:11 note; and on Ashdod see Joshua 13:3 note....

EXPOSITION The twenty-three verses of this chapter, entirely occupied with the career of Uzziah, have to be content with a parallel of nine verses only, viz. 2 Kings 14:21, 2 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 15:1. Our chapter first glances at the usual prefatory particulars of the age, pedigree, length of reign, kind of character, and choice between virtue and vice of the new king (2 Chronicles 26:1; but note the remarkable appearance of 2 Chronicles 26:2, looking as though it had strayed). Next, of his good works ...

AND HE WENT FORTH, AND WARRED AGAINST THE PHILISTINES,.... Who in the times of Jehoram broke in upon Judah, and distressed them, 2 Chronicles 21:16 AND BRAKE DOWN THE WALL OF GATH; which was one of the five principalities of the Philistines: AND THE WALL OF JABNEH; nowhere else mentioned in Scripture, but frequent in the Jewish writings; where the sanhedrim sometimes sat, and where was a famous university, and from whence sprung many of the Jewish rabbins; it is the same which in some writers is called Jamnia, and was a port near to Joppa; and belonged to the tribe of Dan, as Josephus m writes: AND THE WALL OF ASHDOD: another of the principalities of the Philistines, the same with the Azotus of the New Testament; he dismantled all these places: AND BUILT CITIES ABOUT ASHDOD, AND AMONG THE PHILISTINES;

CHAPTER 26 THE REIGN OF UZZIAH _ 1. The beginning of his reign (2 Chronicles 26:1)_ 2. Uzziah's success and fortifications (2 Chronicles 26:6) 3. Uzziah's sin and leprosy (2 Chronicles 26:16) 4. The death of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:22) The Son of Amaziah, Uzziah, in his sixteenth year, was made king by the people. In Second Kings 15 he is called Azariah. (In the annotations on 2 Kings 15:1 an explanation is given on this double name of Uzziah.) Isaiah was then pro

THE REIGN OF UZZIAH (see notes on 2 Kings 14:21 to 2 Kings 15:7). The Chronicler amplifies considerably the account of this reign in 2 K. which is very meagre: his additions are in all probability based, in the main, upon some historical source, since fuller records of this reign, which was one of the longest in the history of Judah, must have been in existence. 2 Chronicles 26:1. Uzziah: called Azariah in 2 Kings 14:21; 2 Kings 15:1, etc., which is probably a mistake; in...

JABNEH, now " _Yebnah_ ". Between Joppa and Ashdod, on northern boundary of Judah. CITIES. fortresses....

_the Philistines_ Cp. 2Ch 21:16; 2 Chronicles 28:18; 2 Kings 18:8; 1Ma 5:66-68; 1Ma 14:34. Wars against the Philistines continned almost down to Roman times. _brake down the wall of Gath_ See note on 2 Chronicles 25:23. _Jabneh_ Mentioned here only in the O.T., but probably to be Identified with "Jabneel" (Joshua 15:11). At a later date It was called "Jamnia" (2Ma 12:8). Its ruins are to be seen about 10 miles south of Jaffa (Joppa) on the coast. The modern Yebna is a few miles inland. _Bädeker_, p. 159. _Ashdod_ Cp....

11. THE REIGN OF UZZIAH (Chapter 26) TEXT 2 Chronicles 26:1. And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecholiah, of Jerusalem. 4. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 5. And he set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Jehovah, God made him to prosper. 6. And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of A