2 Chronicles 25:2
_Heart, and with perseverance._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heart, and with perseverance._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Families. The officers were well acquainted with their soldiers; (C.) and all were more interested for each other's welfare, (D.) than they are in the present system. C. --- Young. Prot. "choice men, able to go." H._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thousand. Yet "they were so greatly reduced, but a few years before, that there were....only fifty horsemen," &c. 4 K. xiii. 7. Kennicott --- That might be true, at one time, when the people fled from the king's banners, through fear. But they were still in the country, and God gave Israel a saviou... [ Continue Reading ]
_And. Heb. "But if thou wilt go, do; be strong; ( he speaks ironically) God," &c. Sept. "if thou thinkest that thou art strong with these, the Lord," &c. Amasias ought to have known that no dependance was to be placed on Israel, while they despised God, C. xv. 2._... [ Continue Reading ]
_What will. Syriac, &c. "What then is my crime in having given the," &c. --- To the. Hebrew or, "for the army." H._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rock, afterwards called Jecteel. Some take it to be Petra, 4 K. xiv. 7._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Samaria, the capital, where they had made their complaints to king Joas; and receiving no redress, began to plunder, as far as Bethhoron the lower, which Solomon had repaired, and his successors had retained, though it belonged to the territory of Ephraim, C. xiii. 5., and Josue xviii. 13. C._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Art thou. Heb. adds, "appointed." H. --- The very character of prophet, authorized him to give counsel even to kings. Amasias had perhaps obeyed this prophet, (v. 7) but now his heart was puffed up with victory. --- Kill thee, sixteen years hence._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Another, and fight. He supposed Joas had connived at his subjects' invasion, (v. 13.; H. See 4 K. xiv. 8.; C.) and he now required all Israel to submit to him. Josephus) T._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thistle. This fable insinuated how much Joas despised the insolence of his antagonist, (H.) and Amasias had soon reason to repent. T._... [ Continue Reading ]
_It. Prot. "it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom." H. --- The king was permitted to give ear to evil counsellors. C. --- "Jupiter deprives those of understanding, whom he means to destroy." Homer --- The heart is harden... [ Continue Reading ]
_Obededom, whose descendants guarded these treasures, 1 Paralipomenon xxvi. 15. C. --- Hostages. Prot. "the hostages also, and returned to Samaria." H. --- Some think that the kings of Juda had before detained these men. Estius --- Others suppose that Joas had taken many nobles, whom he exchanged fo... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXV.... [ Continue Reading ]
_David. Heb. "of Juda," contrary to the Sept., Syriac, &c. C._... [ Continue Reading ]