2 Chronicles 26:7

_AND GOD HELPED HIM AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, AND AGAINST THE ARABIANS THAT DWELT IN GURBAAL, AND THE MEHUNIMS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

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....

Verse 2 Chronicles 26:7. _AND GOD HELPED HIM_] "And the WORD of the Lord helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gerar, and the plains of Meun." - _Targum_. These are supposed to be the Arabs which are called the _Meuneons_, or _Munites_, or _Meonites_....

On the Mehunims or Maonites, see Judges 10:12 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 GOD HELPED HIM AGAINST THE PHILISTINES,.... He did not do all before related of himself, and by his own strength, but by the help of God; the Targum is "the Word of the Lord helped him:'' AND AGAINST THE ARABIANS THAT DWELT IN GURBAAL; the same with Gerar, according to the Targum; which also belonged to the Philistines, and had a king in Abraham's time, Genesis 20:1, the same with Askelon, another of the five principalities of the Philistines: AND THE MEHUNIMS; or the Minaeans, as the Septuagint, and whom Pliny n makes mention of among the Arabians; they seem to be the Scenite Arabs; see 2 Chronicles 20:1, or rather, as the Targum, those that dwelt in the plain of Maon, which was in Arabia Petraea. n Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28....

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...

MEHUNIINS. See note on 2 Chronicles 20:1 and 1 Chronicles 4:41....

_Gur-baal_ An unidentified place; a "Gur" is mentioned in 2 Kings 9:27. A slight correction of the Heb. would give, "in Gerar (cp. Genesis 20:1) and against the Meunim." _Mehunims_ R.V. MEUNIM; cp. 2 Chronicles 20:1 (note)....