2 Chronicles 21 - Introduction
_JEHORAM SUCCEEDS JEHOSHAPHAT, AND REIGNS EIGHT YEARS WICKEDLY. HIS INCURABLE DISEASE, INFAMOUS DEATH, AND BURIAL._ _Before Christ 889._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JEHORAM SUCCEEDS JEHOSHAPHAT, AND REIGNS EIGHT YEARS WICKEDLY. HIS INCURABLE DISEASE, INFAMOUS DEATH, AND BURIAL._ _Before Christ 889._... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOSHAPHAT KING OF ISRAEL— _King of Judah;_ Houbigant; after almost all the ancient versions.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND COMPELLED JUDAH THERETO— _And made Judah most contemptible._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM ELIJAH THE PROPHET— It being plain from Exodus 2:11 that Elijah was taken up into heaven in the time of Jehoshaphat, the question is, how could Elijah send his son a letter. Josephus and others imagine, that this writing was indited by Elijah in heaven, and sent to Jehoram by the ministry of an... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SMOTE HIM IN HIS BOWELS WITH AN INCURABLE DISEASE— Dr. Mede observes, that "two impious kings are recorded to have had the same end; Antiochus Epiphanes, and Agrippa, of whom it was said, εις τι τα σπλαγχνα τοις ου σπλαγχνιεομε οις, of what avail are bowels to those who have no bowels? Now,... [ Continue Reading ]