_AMAZIAH WAS TWENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED TWENTY AND NINE YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JEHOADDAN OF JERUSALEM._ Amaziah was twenty and five years old ... - (see the notes at 2 Kings 14:1)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, BUT NOT WITH A PERFECT HEART._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER AMAZIAH GATHERED JUDAH TOGETHER, AND MADE THEM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS, ACCORDING TO THE HOUSES OF THEIR FATHERS, THROUGHOUT ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN: AND HE NUMBERED THEM FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND ABOVE, AND FOUND THEM THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CHOICE MEN, ABLE TO G... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HIRED ALSO AN HUNDRED THOUSAND MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR OUT OF ISRAEL FOR AN HUNDRED TALENTS OF SILVER._ HE HIRED ALSO AN HUNDRED THOUSAND ... FOR AN HUNDRED TALENTS OF SILVER. This sum was paid into the exchequer of Jehoahaz, not given as bounty to the mercenaries who were obliged to serve at the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD TO HIM, SAYING, O KING, LET NOT THE ARMY OF ISRAEL GO WITH THEE; FOR THE LORD IS NOT WITH ISRAEL, TO WIT, WITH ALL THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM._ There came a man of God - sent to dissuade Amaziah from the course he was following, on the ground that "the Lord was not with Is... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF THOU WILT GO, DO IT, BE STRONG FOR THE BATTLE: GOD SHALL MAKE THEE FALL BEFORE THE ENEMY: FOR GOD HATH POWER TO HELP, AND TO CAST DOWN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN AMAZIAH SEPARATED THEM, TO WIT, THE ARMY THAT WAS COME TO HIM OUT OF EPHRAIM, TO GO HOME AGAIN: WHEREFORE THEIR ANGER WAS GREATLY KINDLED AGAINST JUDAH, AND THEY RETURNED HOME IN GREAT ANGER._ Separated them ... the army ... out of Ephraim ... their anger was greatly kindled against Judah. Am... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AMAZIAH STRENGTHENED HIMSELF, AND LED FORTH HIS PEOPLE, AND WENT TO THE VALLEY OF SALT, AND SMOTE OF THE CHILDREN OF SEIR TEN THOUSAND._ Valley of Salt. This ravine lies to the south of the Dead Sea. The arms of Amaziah, in reward for his obedience to the divine will, were crowned with victory... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND OTHER TEN THOUSAND LEFT ALIVE DID THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH CARRY AWAY CAPTIVE, AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO THE TOP OF THE ROCK, AND CAST THEM DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE ROCK, THAT THEY ALL WERE BROKEN IN PIECES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THAT AMAZIAH WAS COME FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE EDOMITES, THAT HE BROUGHT THE GODS OF THE CHILDREN OF SEIR, AND SET THEM UP TO BE HIS GODS, AND BOWED DOWN HIMSELF BEFORE THEM, AND BURNED INCENSE UNTO THEM._ Amaziah ... brought the gods of the children of Seir. The Edomit... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST AMAZIAH, AND HE SENT UNTO HIM A PROPHET, WHICH SAID UNTO HIM, WHY HAST THOU SOUGHT AFTER THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE, WHICH COULD NOT DELIVER THEIR OWN PEOPLE OUT OF THINE HAND?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE TALKED WITH HIM, THAT THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU MADE OF THE KING'S COUNSEL? FORBEAR; WHY SHOULDEST THOU BE SMITTEN? THEN THE PROPHET FORBARE, AND SAID, I KNOW THAT GOD HATH DETERMINED TO DESTROY THEE, BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE THIS, AND HAST NOT HEARKENED UNTO MY COUN... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH TOOK ADVICE, AND SENT TO JOASH, THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ, THE SON OF JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL, SAYING, COME, LET US SEE ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE._ Then Amaziah ... sent to ... Joash ... Come, let us see one another in the face. This homage to the gods of Edom led indirectly to the... [ Continue Reading ]