Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Chronicles 25:26
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Verse 2 Chronicles 25:26. _THE REST OF THE ACTS OF AMAZIAH, FIRST AND LAST_] Says the _Targum_; "The _first_, when he walked in the fear of the Lord, the _last_, when he departed from the right way be...
5. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER AMAZIAH, UZZIAH, JOTHAM AND AHAZ CHAPTER 25 The Reign of Amaziah _ 1. The record of Amaziah's reign (2 Chronicles 25:1)_ 2. The war against Edom (2 Chronicles 25:5) 3...
THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH. This section is taken from 2 Kings 14:1 with some considerable additions and modifications characteristic of the Chronicler. 2 Chronicles 25:1. See notes on 2 Kings 14:1; the Chr...
ARE THEY NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
10. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH (Chapter 25) TEXT 2 Chronicles 25:1. 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 wa...
REIGN OF AMAZIAH This chapter is derived in the main from 2 Kings 14:1, but with two insertions, 2 Kings 14:5 and 2 Kings 14:13....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 25 AMAZIAH PREPARES FOR WAR – 2 CHRONICLES 25:1-10 V1
FIRST AND LAST. — _The former and the latter._ The chronicler adds his usual formula. BEHOLD, ARE THEY NOT WRITTEN. — The Hebrew is faulty here. “Behold, they are written” is the customary phrase in t...
וְ יֶ֨תֶר֙ דִּבְרֵ֣י אֲמַצְיָ֔הוּ הָ רִאשֹׁנִ֖ים...
JOASH AND AMAZIAH 2 Chronicles 24:1; 2 Chronicles 25:1 FOR Chronicles, as for the book of Kings, the main interest of the reign of Joash is the repairing of the Temple; but the later narrative introd...
The story of the reign of Amaziah opens with a remarkable statement which gives us the key to all that follows. "He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart." The...
Much of this history we have 2 Kings 14:1. But we shall do well to observe in the sad history of the termination of his life, what is said; it came of God. Yes! when sinners reject the counsel of God,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 THROUGH 26. Finally, the king perishes, according to Elijah's prediction. Disaster upon disaster falls upon Judah in consequence of this connection with th...
2 Chronicles 25:20...
1 Amaziah beginneth to reigne well. 3 Hee executeth iustice on the traitours. 5 Hauing hired an armie of Israelites against the Edomites, at the word of a Prophet, he loseth the hundred talents, and...
Now, the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel? Cf 2 Kings 14....
Amaziah's Idolatry and Defeat by Israel...
AMAZIAH BEGINS WELL (vv.1-4) The reign of Amaziah was relatively long, ¾ 29 years, because, as his father Joash, he at first did what was outwardly right in the eyes of the Lord, though his heart w...
17-28 Never was a proud prince more thoroughly mortified than Amaziah by Joash king of Israel. A man's pride will bring him low, Proverbs 29:23; it goes before his destruction, and deservedly brings...
2 Chronicles 25:26 rest H3499 acts H1697 Amaziah H558 first H7223 last H314 written H3789 (H8803) book...
CONTENTS: Reign of Amaziah over Judah. War between Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amaziah, Joash, man of God, Obed-edom. CONCLUSION: Trust in God means to be willing to venture the loss of anyth...
2 Chronicles 25:4. _He slew not their children,_ as noted in 2 Kings 14. Whether the king was justly put to death for the blood of Zechariah and his brothers, is a question too delicate for human trib...
2 CHRONICLES 25:1 Amaziah. Throughout his reign, Amaziah is halfhearted in his loyalty to God. His final failure comes after a steady degeneration. ⇐...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 25:25 The conspiracy against Amaziah (see note on 2 Kings 14:19) began WHEN HE TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD, perhaps referring to...
CRITICAL NOTES.] We have succession of A. (2 Chronicles 25:1), his expedition against Moat (5–13), his idolatry (14–16), his war with Joash (17–24), and his death and burial (25–28). Parallel 2 Kings...
EXPOSITION This chapter is filled up with a very graphic account of the entire career of Amaziah, and its twenty-eight verses are paralleled by the twenty verses of 2 Kings 14:1, where the narrative r...
In chapter 25, Amaziah [the son of Joash] began to reign, he was twenty-five years old when he began to reign. He reigned for twenty-nine years. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And...
2 Chronicles 20:34; 2 Kings 14:15...