2 Chronicles 14:1
_Years, dating from the fifth; as in the fifteenth year of his reign, Asa offered many victims, which had been taken from the enemy, chap. xv. 10. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Years, dating from the fifth; as in the fifteenth year of his reign, Asa offered many victims, which had been taken from the enemy, chap. xv. 10. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_God, with respect to the external worship of the true God, (Haydock) though he had some faults, 3 Kings xv. 14. --- Places, while he tolerated those which were intended for the service of the Lord, (Calmet) though illegally; and he even left the buildings erected by Solomon standing, (4 Kings xxiii... [ Continue Reading ]
_Altars. Hebrew, "high places, and the Chamanim," or temple of the sun, Leviticus xxvi. 30. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "images." (Haydock) --- Asa was encouraged to perfect the work which he had begun, by the exhortation of Azarias, chap. xv. 8. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Time, as yet. (Tirinus) --- Admirable lesson for all to prepare for war in time of quite! (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Ethiopian. Some think Zara was a successor of Sesac; and the Rabbins say, that he "restored the spoils which the latter had taken." (Seder. xvi.) --- He at least, made the Jews some compensation for that loss. Perhaps he had been present in the expedition of Sesac, and was now animated with the same... [ Continue Reading ]
_Meet him, fearing lest he should lay waste his dominions, as Sesac had done. (Menochius) --- Sephata, or Sephala, a great valley to the west of Maresa, (Calmet) which is a city of Juda. (Menochius) --- Septuagint have, "in the vale north of Maresa." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Help. Hebrew, "to help; whether with many, or with those who have no power." The same sentiment was expressed by Jonathas, 1 Kings xiv. 6. Those who have God with them are secure of victory. (Calmet) --- If God be with us, who is against us?_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Terrified. Hebrew and Septuagint, "struck," as he had done Jeroboam, chap. xiii. 15. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gerara was on the southern borders, twenty-three miles from Maresa. (Eusebius) (Calmet) --- The Ethiopians were pursued perhaps for many days. (Tirinus) --- Destruction. Protestants, "they they could not recover themselves." Hebrew, "there was no quarter given;" or, "so that none were left alive.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gerara. The adjacent territory is now uncultivated, Josue xiii. 3. --- Great. Hebrew, "a fear of the Lord;" (ver. 12) an extraordinary (Calmet) panic. (Haydock) --- The Philistines had assisted the enemy, and therefore their cities were invaded; (Menochius) or these belonged to Zara. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Destroyed. Hebrew, "smote also the tents of cattle." Septuagint, "they cut in pieces the tents of cattle, the Amazons;" or, according to the Vatican copy, (Haydock) "the Alimazonians," as they seem to have read aeli manim, which may be well rendered, "the tents of the Mineans," a people of Arabia, c... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XIV.... [ Continue Reading ]