2 Chronicles 12:1
And all Israel — So called, because they forsook God, as Israel had done.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all Israel — So called, because they forsook God, as Israel had done.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fifth year — Presently after the apostacy of the king and people, which was in the fourth year.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lubims — A people of Africk bordering upon Egypt. Sukkiims — A people living in tents, as the word signifies; and such there were not far from Egypt, both in Africk and in Arabia. Ethiopians — Either those beyond Egypt, or the Arabians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Some deliverance — I will give some stop to the course of my wrath, which was ready to be poured forth upon them to their utter destruction. Those who acknowledge God is righteous in afflicting them, shall find him gracious.... [ Continue Reading ]
May know — That they may experimentally know the difference between my yoke and the yoke of a foreign and idolatrous prince.... [ Continue Reading ]
Went well — The began to recruity themselves, and regain some degree of their former prosperity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Did evil — Or, settled not, although he humbled himself, for a season, yet he quickly relapsed into sin, because his heart was not right with God.... [ Continue Reading ]