Desired — This is an emphatical expression, because it is usual with men to desire the deaths of some persons, whom afterward they lament, and heartily wish they were alive again. But for this ungodly and unhappy prince, his people did not only in his life time wish his death, but afterwards did not repent of those desires.
Verse 2 Chronicles 21:20. _DEPARTED WITHOUT BEING DESIRED._] He was hated while he lived, and neglected when he died; visibly cursed of God, and necessarily execrated by the people whom he had lived...
NOT IN THE SEPULCHRES OF THE KINGS - Compare the similar treatment of Joash 2 Chronicles 24:25 and Ahaz 2 Chronicles 28:27....
3. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER JEHORAM, AHAZIAH AND ATHALIAH CHAPTER 21 The Reign of Jehoram _ 1. Jehoram's wicked reign (2 Chronicles 21:1)_ 2. Revolt of Edom (2 Chronicles 21:8) 3. Revolt of Libn...
THE REIGN OF JEHORAM (see notes on 1 Kings 22:50; 2 Kings 8:17). A large part of this section has nothing corresponding to it in 1 and 2 K. 2 Chronicles 21:1. _Cf._...
WITHOUT BEING DESIRED. unregretted. SLAIN ALL THE ELDEST. See note on 2 Chronicles 21:17....
_and departed without being desired_ Render, HE LIVED SO THAT NONE DESIRED HIM (or "delighted in him"). Cp. LXX., ἐπορεύθη οὐκ ἐν ἐπαίνῳ, lit. "he walked without praise." _Howbeit_ R.V. AND. _but no...
6. THE REIGN OF JEHORAM (2 Chronicles 21:5-20) TEXT 2 Chronicles 21:5. Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6. And he walked in the wa...
21:20 regretted. (h-22) Lit. 'desired.'...
DEPARTED.. DESIRED] i.e. he died unregretted. But some (following LXX) render 'he walked (I.e. lived) in an undesirable way.'...
REIGN OF JEHOKAM This chapter in part reproduces 2 Kings 8:17 but adds several particulars respecting the judgments brought upon Jehoram....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 JEHORAM BECOMES KING OF JUDAH – 2 CHRONICLES 21:1-7 V1
THIRTY AND TWO YEARS. — The word “years” has fallen out of the Hebrew text; but some MSS. contain it. The repetition of his age, &c, is curious. (See 2 Chronicles 21:6.) It seems to indicate that the...
בֶּן ־שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וּ שְׁתַּ֨יִם֙ הָיָ֣ה בְ מָ
JEHORAM, AHAZIAH, AND ATHALIAH: THE CONSEQUENCES OF A FOREIGN MARRIAGE 2 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 23:1 THE accession of Jehoram is one of the instances in which
With the passing of Jehoshaphat another period of degeneracy and darkness set in for the kingdom of Judah. He was succeeded by his first-born, Jehoram, who seems to have been a man of utterly evil nat...
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, (l) and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the se...
Rightly. Sept. "unpraised." Heb. "without any satisfaction;" or, "he departed unregretted," oppressed with illness, and odious to all. --- Kings. Joas, Achaz, Achab, and Manasses, were disgraced in li...
And as he lived so he died, unpitied and disregarded. No funeral pomp, nor tears to lament his loss. Nay, the Holy Ghost hath marked it down, as if to be particularly noticed, t hat he departed withou...
_‘UNWEPT, UNHONOURED, AND UNSUNG’_ ‘He departed without being desired.’ 2 Chronicles 21:20 It is related of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat—a worthy father’s foolish son—that after a reign of eight...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 THROUGH 26. Finally, the king perishes, according to Elijah's prediction. Disaster upon disaster falls upon Judah in consequence of this connection with th...
THIRTY AND TWO YEARS OLD WAS HE WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED IN JERUSALEM EIGHT YEARS,.... See 2 Kings 8:17, AND DEPARTED WITHOUT BEING DESIRED; to live, either by himself, being weary of l...
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulc...
_And departed_ Hebrew, _went_, namely, _the way of all the earth_, as it is more fully expressed Joshua 23:14. Or, _to the land of darkness, Job 10:21_. Or, to his _long home, Ecclesiastes 12:5_. Or,...
1 Iehoram succeeding Iehoshaphat, slayeth his brethren. 5 His wicked reigne. 8 Edom and Libnah reuolt. 12 The prophecie of Eliiah against him in writing. 16 Philistines and Arabians oppresse him....
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired; no one regretted his death, it was a relief for the entire kingdom....
The Lord's Punishment upon Jehoram...
THE REIGN OF JEHORAM (vv.1-20) Though verse 1 speaks of Jehoram's reigning when Jehoshaphat died, it is made clear in2 Kings 8:16 that Jehoram began to reign before Jehoshaphat's death, for it reads...
WITHOUT BEING DESIRED: _ Heb._ without desire...
12-20 A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly...
DEPARTED, Heb. _went_, to wit, _the way of all the earth_, as it is more fully expressed, JOSHUA 23:14. Or, _to the land of darkness_, as JOB 10:21,22. Or, to _his long home_, Ecclesiastes
2 Chronicles 21:20 thirty-two H7970 H8147 years H1121 king H4427 (H8800) reigned H4427 (H8804) Jerusalem H3
2 Chronicles 21:20 I. Notice, first, a lesson for parents, which is this: Folly in fathers may become sin in their sons. The pious king Jehoshaphat showed his children a good example, so far as we kno...
CONTENTS: Jehoram's wicked reign over Judah and its accompanying disasters. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoram, Elijah, Libnah. CONCLUSION: Bad men bring judgment upon themselves and all about them. Wickednes...
2 Chronicles 21:2. _Jehoshaphat king of Israel._ Many think that Israel is here put for Judah; but many of the ten tribes now placed themselves under Jehoshaphat; the text may therefore be correct, Go...
_And departed without being desired._ THE UNDESIRABLENESS OF A WICKED MAN’S LIFE I. Such life is not desirable on its own account. Two facts will show this. 1. His highest enjoyments are unsatisfac...
THE MAN WHOM NOBODY MISSED He departed without being desired. 2 Chronicles 21:20. I think this is the very saddest epitaph that was ever written about any man. If you walk through a cemetery you wil...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 21:11 In contrast to his father Jehoshaphat, who removed the HIGH PLACES (2 Chronicles 17:6), Jehoram actual
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 2 Kings 8:16; contains Jehoshaphat’s family arrangements (2 Chronicles 21:1); beginning and character of Jehoram’s reign (2 Chronicles 21:5); the writing...
EXPOSITION The matter of this chapter may be divided into four parts. The death and burial of Jehoshaphat, and the number, names, and position of his sons (2 Chronicles 21:1). The accession and wicked...
Now Jehoshaphat died, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. And he had brothers who were also sons of Jehoshaphat [and it names several of the...
2 Chronicles 21:5; 2 Chronicles 23:21; Jeremiah 22:18; Jeremiah 22:28;...