_AMAZIAH REIGNS TWENTY-NINE YEARS: HE HIRES ISRAELITISH SOLDIERS WHOM HE DISMISSES AT THE COMMAND OF A PROPHET: HE CONQUERS THE EDOMITES, AND WORSHIPS THEIR GODS. HE IS CONQUERED BY JOASH, KING OF ISRAEL, WHO SPOILS THE TEMPLE. AMAZIAH IS SLAIN IN A CONSPIRACY._ _Before Christ 827._... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF THOU WILT GO, DO IT, &C.— _But if thou wilt be more obstinate, and go to the war, the Lord shall cause thee to fall before the enemy._ Houbigant; who renders the last clause of the preceding verse, _the Lord is not with Israel, who are all the children of Ephraim._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN AMAZIAH SEPARATED THEM, TO WIT— _Amaziah, therefore, gave them to the army which had come to him,_ &c. Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Amaziah's reign we had before, 2 Kings 14. His lukewarm temper in religion, and his execution of his father's murders, were there recorded; his expedition against... [ Continue Reading ]