_AND JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING OF JUDAH RETURNED TO HIS HOUSE IN PEACE TO JERUSALEM._ Jehoshaphat ... returned to his house in peace - (see the note at 2 Chronicles 18:16.) Not long after he had resumed the ordinary functions of royalty Jerusalem, he was one day disturbed by an unexpected and ominous vi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHU THE SON OF HANANI THE SEER WENT OUT TO MEET HIM, AND SAID TO KING JEHOSHAPHAT, SHOULDEST THOU_ _ HELP THE UNGODLY, AND LOVE THEM THAT HATE THE LORD? THEREFORE IS WRATH UPON THEE FROM BEFORE THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JEHOSHAPHAT DWELT AT JERUSALEM: AND HE WENT OUT AGAIN THROUGH THE PEOPLE FROM BEERSHEBA TO MOUNT EPHRAIM, AND BROUGHT THEM BACK UNTO THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS._ He went out again through the people. This means his re-appointing the commissioners of public instruction (2 Chronicles 17:7), p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SET JUDGES IN THE LAND THROUGHOUT ALL THE FENCED CITIES OF JUDAH, CITY BY CITY,_ He set judges in the land. There had been judicial courts established at an early period. But Jehoshaphat was the first king who modified these institutions according to the circumstances of the now fragmentary... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAID TO THE JUDGES, TAKE HEED WHAT YE DO: FOR YE JUDGE NOT FOR MAN, BUT FOR THE LORD, WHO IS WITH YOU IN THE JUDGMENT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER IN JERUSALEM DID JEHOSHAPHAT SET OF THE LEVITES, AND OF THE PRIESTS, AND OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF ISRAEL, FOR THE JUDGMENT OF THE LORD, AND FOR CONTROVERSIES, WHEN THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._ Set of the Levites ... priests, and ... chief of the fathers of Israel. A certain number o... [ Continue Reading ]