2 Chronicles 13:1-22
REIGN OF ABIJAH This chapter expands the account given of Abijah (Abijam) in 1 Kings 15:1 by giving details of his war with Jeroboam, which is there only briefly mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGN OF ABIJAH This chapter expands the account given of Abijah (Abijam) in 1 Kings 15:1 by giving details of his war with Jeroboam, which is there only briefly mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
MICHAIAH] In 2 Chronicles 11:21 and 1 Kings 15:2 she is called 'Maachah,' and was probably daughter of Uriel and granddaughter of Absalom.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND, etc.] These numbers (see also 2 Chronicles 13:17) are in keeping with the large figures that appear elsewhere in Chronicles: see 2 Chronicles 14:8; 2 Chronicles 17:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEMARAIM] Possibly a hill near the place of the same name in Benjamin: Joshua 18:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
A COVENANT OF SALT] cp. Numbers 18:19. The use of salt in connexion with sacrifice (see Leviticus 2:13) probably arose from its association with a meal; and 'there is salt between us' is said to be a phrase still employed to denote the bond which secures, for any one who has partaken of an Arab's ho... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN OF BELIAL] i.e. worthless persons. YOUNG] That Rehoboam was young when the Ten Tribes revolted is implied in 2 Chronicles 10:8, though in 2 Chronicles 12:13 his age is given as 41.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD] The high prerogative that once belonged to all Israel (1 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 9:8) was now confined to Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THE MANNER, etc.] The LXX has 'out of the people of all the land,' which agrees with the true sense of 1 Kings 12:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUNDING TRUMPETS] cp. Numbers 10:9; Numbers 31:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESHANAH.. EPHRAIN] The first is not known, the second is identified by some with the 'Ephraim' mentioned in John 11:54.... [ Continue Reading ]
The mention of JEROBOAM'S death here is chronologically out of place, since he outlived Abijah.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE STORY] RV 'in the commentary.' The original term ('midrash') meant the didactic treatment of a subject or narrative; and in the 'midrash' of IDDO the reign of ABIJAH was presumably related with a view to moral instruction rather than historic accuracy. Possibly the account of Abijah's speech... [ Continue Reading ]