2 Chronicles 15:1
Oded is by some identified with Iddo, the prophet and historian of the two preceding reigns. In the Hebrew the two names differ very slightly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Oded is by some identified with Iddo, the prophet and historian of the two preceding reigns. In the Hebrew the two names differ very slightly.... [ Continue Reading ]
“Israel” here is used generally for the whole people of God; and the reference is especially to the many apostasies in the days of the Judges, which were followed by repentance and deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]
The allusion is probably to the destructions recorded in Judges 9:45; Judges 20:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
Some versions have “the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded,” which is perhaps the true reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGERS ... - i. e. “Israelites of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.” The separation of the two kingdoms had made their Israelite brethren “strangers,” or “foreigners,” to Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE THIRD MONTH - i. e. the month Sivan Esther 8:9, corresponding with our June.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prevalence of the number “seven” in the religious system of the Jews has been noticed often. Seven bullocks and seven rams were a common offering Numbers 29:32; 1Ch 15:26; 2 Chronicles 29:21; Job 42:8; Ezekiel 14:23. At the larger sacrifices, however, it is seldom that we find the number seven a... [ Continue Reading ]
Solemn renewals of the original covenant which God made with their fathers in the wilderness Exodus 24:3 occur from time to time in the history of the Jews, following upon intervals of apostasy. This renewal in the reign of Asa is the first on record. The next falls 300 years later in the reign of J... [ Continue Reading ]
Comparing this verse with marginal references, it would seem that in 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 14:5 the intention and endeavors of the monarch are in the writer’s mind, while here he is speaking of the practice of the people. However earnestly the most pious monarchs sought to root out the hig... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIVE AND THIRTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA - This cannot be reconciled with the chronqlogy of Kings 1 Kings 16:8 : and the suggestion in the marg. implies the adoption of a mode of marking time unknown either to himself or any other Scriptural writer. It is supposed that the figures here and in... [ Continue Reading ]