_NOW JEHOSHAPHAT SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND WAS BURIED WITH HIS FATHERS IN THE CITY OF DAVID. AND JEHORAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ Jehoshaphat slept with his feathers ... Jehoram ... reigned. The late king left seven sons. Two of them are in our version named Azariah; but in the Hebrew they... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE HAD BRETHREN THE SONS OF JEHOSHAPHAT, AZARIAH, AND JEHIEL, AND ZECHARIAH, AND AZARIAH, AND MICHAEL, AND SHEPHATIAH: ALL THESE WERE THE SONS OF JEHOSHAPHAT KING OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WALKED IN THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, LIKE AS DID THE HOUSE OF AHAB: FOR HE HAD THE DAUGHTER OF_ _ AND HE WALKED IN THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, LIKE AS DID THE HOUSE OF AHAB: FOR HE HAD THE DAUGHTER OF AHAB TO WIFE: AND HE WROUGHT THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE EYES OF THE LORD._ He wal... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOWBEIT THE LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THE HOUSE OF DAVID, BECAUSE OF THE COVENANT THAT HE HAD MADE WITH DAVID, AND AS HE PROMISED TO GIVE A LIGHT TO HIM AND TO HIS SONS FOR EVER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN HIS DAYS THE EDOMITES REVOLTED FROM UNDER THE DOMINION OF JUDAH, AND MADE THEMSELVES A KING._ The Edomites revolted. That nation had been made dependent by David, and down to the time of Jehoshaphat was governed by a tributary ruler (1 Kings 22:47; 2 Kings 3:9). But that king having been slain... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JEHORAM WENT FORTH WITH HIS PRINCES, AND ALL HIS CHARIOTS WITH HIM: AND HE ROSE UP BY NIGHT, AND SMOTE THE EDOMITES WHICH COMPASSED HIM IN, AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE CHARIOTS._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE CAME A WRITING TO HIM FROM ELIJAH THE PROPHET, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF DAVID THY FATHER, BECAUSE THOU HAST NOT WALKED IN THE WAYS OF JEHOSHAPHAT THY FATHER, NOR IN THE WAYS OF ASA KING OF JUDAH,_ There came a writing to him from Elijah. There have been various efforts made tow... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HAST WALKED IN THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, AND HAST MADE JUDAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM TO GO A WHORING, LIKE TO THE WHOREDOMS OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB, AND ALSO HAST SLAIN THY BRETHREN OF THY FATHER'S HOUSE, WHICH WERE BETTER THAN THYSELF:_ Hast made ... like to the whoredoms of the h... [ Continue Reading ]