_AND JEHOSHAPHAT HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD, AND STRENGTHENED HIMSELF AGAINST ISRAEL._ Strengthened himself against Israel. The temper and proceedings of the kings of Israel rendered it necessary for him to prepare vigorous measures of defense on the northern frontier of his kingdom, and these co... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PLACED FORCES IN ALL THE FENCED CITIES OF JUDAH, AND SET GARRISONS IN THE LAND OF JUDAH, AND IN THE CITIES OF EPHRAIM, WHICH ASA HIS FATHER HAD TAKEN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD WAS WITH JEHOSHAPHAT, BECAUSE HE WALKED IN THE FIRST WAYS OF HIS FATHER DAVID, AND SOUGHT NOT UNTO BAALIM;_ He walked in the first ways of his father David. He imitated the piety of his great ancestor in the early part of his reign, before he made those unhappy lapses which dishonoure... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT SOUGHT TO THE (LORD) GOD OF HIS FATHER, AND WALKED IN HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND NOT AFTER THE DOINGS OF ISRAEL._ And not after the doings of Israel. He observed with scrupulous fidelity, and employed his royal influence to support, the divine institutions as enacted by Moses, abhorring that spurio... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE LORD STABLISHED THE KINGDOM IN HIS HAND; AND ALL JUDAH BROUGHT TO JEHOSHAPHAT PRESENTS; AND HE HAD RICHES AND HONOUR IN ABUNDANCE._ All Judah brought ... presents. This was customary with the people generally at the beginning of a reign (1 Samuel 10:27), and with the nobles and high... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD: MOREOVER HE TOOK AWAY THE HIGH PLACES AND GROVES OUT OF JUDAH._ His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. Full of faith and piety, he possessed zeal and courage to undertake the reformation of manners, to suppress all the works and object... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS REIGN HE SENT TO HIS PRINCES, EVEN TO BENHAIL, AND TO OBADIAH, AND TO ZECHARIAH, AND TO NETHANEEL, AND TO MICHAIAH, TO TEACH IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH._ Also in the third year of his reign he sent ... to teach in the cities of Judah. It does not appear that the ordinary... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WITH THEM HE SENT LEVITES, EVEN SHEMAIAH, AND NETHANIAH, AND ZEBADIAH, AND ASAHEL, AND SHEMIRAMOTH, AND JEHONATHAN, AND ADONIJAH, AND TOBIJAH, AND TOB-ADONIJAH, LEVITES; AND WITH THEM ELISHAMA AND JEHORAM, PRIESTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TAUGHT IN JUDAH, AND HAD THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF THE LORD WITH THEM, AND WENT ABOUT THROUGHOUT ALL THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND TAUGHT THE PEOPLE._ The book of the law - i:e., either the whole Pentateuch or only the book of Deuteronomy, which contains an abridgment of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD FELL UPON ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE LANDS THAT WERE ROUND ABOUT JUDAH, SO THAT THEY MADE NO WAR AGAINST JEHOSHAPHAT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO SOME OF THE PHILISTINES BROUGHT JEHOSHAPHAT PRESENTS, AND TRIBUTE SILVER; AND THE ARABIANS BROUGHT HIM FLOCKS, SEVEN THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED RAMS, AND SEVEN THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED HE GOATS._ Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver. Either they had... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHOSHAPHAT WAXED GREAT EXCEEDINGLY; AND HE BUILT IN JUDAH CASTLES, AND CITIES OF STORE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE NUMBERS OF THEM ACCORDING TO THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS: OF JUDAH, THE CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS; ADNAH THE CHIEF, AND WITH HIM MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND._ These are the numbers. The warriors were, arranged in the army according to their fathers houses. The army of... [ Continue Reading ]