2 Chronicles 21:1-20
REIGN OF JEHOKAM This chapter in part reproduces 2 Kings 8:17 but adds several particulars respecting the judgments brought upon Jehoram.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGN OF JEHOKAM This chapter in part reproduces 2 Kings 8:17 but adds several particulars respecting the judgments brought upon Jehoram.... [ Continue Reading ]
AZARIAH.. AZARIAH] One of the names is probably an error, perhaps for 'Ahaziah': cp. the mistake in 2 Chronicles 22:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEIR FATHER] cp. 2 Chronicles 11:23... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THE EDOMITES REVOLTED] The writer omits the final sentence in 2 Kings 8:21 which accounts for the successful revolt of the Edomites: see note there.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORNICATION] A figure for religious infidelity.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WRITING.. FROM ELIJAH] If this mention of Elijah as living in the reign of Jehoram is to be reconciled with 2 Kings 3:11, which relates that Elisha (Elijah's successor) prophesied in the reign of Jehoshaphat, it must be supposed that Elisha entered upon his ministry before Elijah was translated; a... [ Continue Reading ]
A GREAT PLAGUE] i.e. the great blow inflicted by the invasion described in 2 Chronicles 21:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD STIRRED UP] The invaders, though pursuing designs of their own, were really agents of the divine judgment: cp. 1 Chronicles 5:26; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 37:24. THE ARABIANS.. ETHIOPIANS] These Arabians came from the W. coast. of Arabia, facing Ethiopia across the Red Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE KING'S HOUSE] better, 'belonging to the king's house.' It is not meant that the invaders assaulted Jerusalem, but that they carried off the royal property in the country districts. JEHOAHAZ] called in 2 Chronicles 22:1; 'Ahaziah.'... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE NO BURNING, etc.] i.e. they did not use the same quantity of spices as were burnt at the funeral rites of former kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEPARTED.. DESIRED] i.e. he died unregretted. But some (following LXX) render 'he walked (I.e. lived) in an undesirable way.'... [ Continue Reading ]