2 Chronicles 26:1
THEN. This chapter largely complementary to 2 Kings 15:1. UZZIAH. Another spelling is Azariah. In Chronicles and the Prophets it is usually Uzziah, except in 1 Chronicles 3:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN. This chapter largely complementary to 2 Kings 15:1. UZZIAH. Another spelling is Azariah. In Chronicles and the Prophets it is usually Uzziah, except in 1 Chronicles 3:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING: i.e. Amaziah. SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGAN TO REIGN. 2 Kings 15:1 says he began to reign in the 27th of Jeroboam. This leaves. gap of thirteen years (714-701). See App-50.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHT. Compare 2 Chronicles 25:2 and 2 Kings 15:3. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ with Art.. the [true] God. App-4. WHO HAD UNDERSTANDING IN THE VISIONS OF GOD. This is the Figure of speech _Periphrasis_ (App-6) for. prophet. AND. Note:. more or less complete _Polysyndeton_ runs through this account of Uzziah, to emphasize the details.... [ Continue Reading ]
JABNEH, now " _Yebnah_ ". Between Joppa and Ashdod, on northern boundary of Judah. CITIES. fortresses.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEHUNIINS. See note on 2 Chronicles 20:1 and 1 Chronicles 4:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPREAD ABROAD. Compare 2 Chronicles 26:15, and see Structure above.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOST. force. BY BANDS. troops, or for foray. BY THE HAND. under the direction of.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHIEFS. head. THE MIGHTY MEN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HABERGEONS. bucklers, or coats of mail.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENGINES. The Roman balista, or catapults that would cast stones up to 300 lb.. quarter of. mile. CUNNING. Old Eng.. knowing, or skilful. MARVELLOUSLY HELPED: or, marvelled at for being helped. TILL HE WAS STRONG. This is the zone of real danger. When we are weak, then are we strong (2 Corinthians... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN HE WAS STRONG. See note on 2 Chronicles 26:15. TRANSGRESSED. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
VALIANT MEN. sons of valour.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSECRATED. sanctified, or set apart. See note on Exodus 28:41. TRESPASSED. Same word as "transgressed" (2 Chronicles 26:16).... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS WROTH. One of eleven rulers offended with God's faithful servants. See note on Exodus 10:28. THE LEPROSY. One of nine so affected. See note on Exodus 4:6. The death penalty of Numbers 18:7 was thus limited. IN HIS FOREHEAD. In contrast with the high priest's frontlet, "Holiness to Jehovah".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHIEF PRIEST. See note on Leviticus 4:3. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ HIMSELF HASTED. As Haman (Esther 6:12).... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVERAL HOUSE. the separate house, or lazar house.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH. Raised up to prophesy in his reign. Wrote parts of. Kings, and his prophecy, Compare 2 Chronicles 32:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16. THE FIELD OF THE BURIAL. Not in the royal sepulchres.... [ Continue Reading ]