2 Chronicles 20:1
AFTER THIS: i.e. after Ahab's death (2 Kings 3:5). CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS: i.e. after Ahab's death (2 Kings 3:5). CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIMSELF. his face. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO ASK. to seek. Supply "counsel" here.... [ Continue Reading ]
STOOD. On the platform provided for such purposes as this (2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 23:3). CONGREGATION. assembly. Hebrew. _kahal._ See note on "multitude" (Genesis 28:3). AND. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "in". THE NEW COURT. The court of the priests,... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. ART NOT... RULEST NOT... IS THERE NOT? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. HEATHEN. nations (Daniel 4:34; Daniel 4:35). IN THINE HAND. The words of David were accessible to Jehoshaphat (1 Chronicles 29:12). See App-47. SO THAT NONE. and there is none.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABRAHAM THY FRIEND. Three times so called: here, Isaiah 41:8, quoted in James 2:23. Compare Moses (Exodus 33:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _raa'._ App-44. SWORD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the execution done by it. Compare 1 Kings 8:37; 1 Kings 6:28. THY NAME. Thy presence. AFFLICTION. distress. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "distresses".... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT SEIR. The Edomite Mehunim. See 2 Chronicles 20:1. WOULDEST NOT, &C. Compare Deuteronomy 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT THOU NOT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. JUDGE. bring judgments. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the judgments themselves. COMPANY. rout.... [ Continue Reading ]
JAHAZIEL... ASAPH. Probably Psalms 83 written at that time. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. OF: OR FROM. Genitive of Origin: i.e. spiritual power from Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE NOT AFRAID. "Be not [ye] afraid".... [ Continue Reading ]
CLIFF. ascent. BROOK. valley.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAND YE STILL. Compare Exodus 14:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS. in His glorious sanctuary. See note on 1 Chronicles 16:29. PRAISE THE LORD. Praise Jehovah. App-4. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Some think the "Yod" (= J) was an abbreviation for "Judah". AMBUSHMENTS. liers in wait. The Targum interprets them of angelic powers.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEAD BODIES. Some codices, with five early printed editions and Vulgate, read "apparel". STRIPPED OFF. raked together.... [ Continue Reading ]
BERACHAH. Blessing.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR. dread, as in 2 Chronicles 19:7 (not as in 2 Chronicles 19:9). Genitive of Character. a great dread.... [ Continue Reading ]
ASA HIS FATHER. Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "his father Asa".... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT TAKEN AWAY. See note on 2 Chronicles 17:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOOK. words. JEHU. Compare 2 Chronicles 19:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS. In the twentieth or twenty-first year of his reign. Compare 1 Kings 22:51. See App-50. "After" this wonderful deliverance. "After" the solemn warning of 2 Chronicles 19:2. "After" his experience in 2 Chronicles 18:31. JOIN HIMSELF. This was the third alliance (Commercial). See note on 2... [ Continue Reading ]
TO MAKE SHIPS TO GO TO TARSHISH. This was prior to the similar event recorded in 1 Kings 22:48; 1 Kings 22:49, where he made (himself) "Tarshish ships to go to Ophir". Ahaziah again sought to implicate Jehoshaphat. But he failed in the attempt, for we there read "Jehoshaphat would not" (2Ch 20:49).... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIEZER. Sent by Jehovah, just as Jehu had been sent (2 Chronicles 19:2). BROKEN.. _Homonym._ Hebrew. _paraz,_ to break. Rightly so rendered here. Its other meaning, _to increase,_ as rightly given in Genesis 30:43.Exodus 1:12.... [ Continue Reading ]