2 Chronicles 16:1
SIX AND THIRTIETH] Since, according to 1 Kings 16:8, BAASHA did not live until the 36th year of ASA. some have supposed that the SIX AND THIRTIETH YEAR is reckoned from the revolt of the Ten Tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIX AND THIRTIETH] Since, according to 1 Kings 16:8, BAASHA did not live until the 36th year of ASA. some have supposed that the SIX AND THIRTIETH YEAR is reckoned from the revolt of the Ten Tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGN OF ASA (CONCLUDED) This chapter reproduces with some verbal differences 1 Kings 15:17, but adds an account of a rebuke received by Asa from the seer Hanani.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STORE CITIES OF NAPHTALI] LXX suggests that the true reading is 'the surrounding parts of Naphtali.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HANANI] Nothing is known of him beyond what is here related, and the fact that he was the father of the prophet JEHU (2 Chronicles 19:2). BECAUSE THOU HAST RELIED] cp. the similar protests of Isaiah against reliance upon foreign support instead of upon the LORD (Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 31:1). THE HOST O... [ Continue Reading ]
LUBIMS] These were not amongst the forces of Zerah (2 Chronicles 14:9), but those of Shishak (2 Chronicles 12:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUGHT NOT TO THE LORD] Contrast the conduct of Hezekiah in his sickness: see 2 Kings 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
A VERY GREAT BURNING] i.e. of the spices previously mentioned: cp. Jeremiah 34:5. The bodies of the dead were not ordinarily burnt but buried; the burning of the bodies of Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 31:12) was exceptional.... [ Continue Reading ]