2 Chronicles 12 - Introduction
This chapter runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference), but considerably enlarges the narrative.... [ Continue Reading ]
This chapter runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference), but considerably enlarges the narrative.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM - i. e., “all Judah and Benjamin” - all the Israelites of those two tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHISHAK ... CAME UP ... BECAUSE THEY HAD TRANSGRESSED - The writer speaks from a divine, not a human, point of view. Shishak’s motive in coming up was to help Jeroboam, and to extend his own influence.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWELVE HUNDRED CHARIOTS - This number is not unusnal (compare Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force of 2,000 chariots (compare the 1 Kings 20:1 note). The Lubims or “Libyans” Daniel 11:43, were a peop... [ Continue Reading ]
See 1 the Kings 14:25 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SAID, THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them 2 Chronicles 12:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare the repentance of Ahab (marginal reference) and that of the Ninevites Jonah 3:5 which produced similar revocations of divine decrees that had been pronounced by the mouth of a prophet. SOME DELIVERANCE - Rather, “deliverance for a short space” (see the margin). Because of the repentance, th... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY MAY KNOW MY SERVICE, AND THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOM - i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE PREPARED NOT HIS HEART ... - See the margin. Rehoboam’s sin was want of earnestness and consistency.... [ Continue Reading ]