2 Chronicles 25:1-28
REIGN OF AMAZIAH This chapter is derived in the main from 2 Kings 14:1, but with two insertions, 2 Kings 14:5 and 2 Kings 14:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
REIGN OF AMAZIAH This chapter is derived in the main from 2 Kings 14:1, but with two insertions, 2 Kings 14:5 and 2 Kings 14:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE THEM CAPTAINS, etc.] better, 'arranged them according to their fathers' houses under captains.' FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD] Under this age military service was not required: Numbers 1:3; 1 Chronicles 27:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
_With_ ALL.. EPHRAIM] added to explain the sense in which 'Israel' is used, since ordinarily in Chronicles it is equivalent to Judah: see on 2 Chronicles 12:6. For the protest against an alliance with the northern kingdom cp. 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 20:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF THOU WILT GO] LXX has 'if thou thinkest to prevail with these' (i.e. the forces from Ephraim) 'God shall make thee fall.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF SEIR] i.e. the Edomites.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM SAMARIA] i.e. from the frontier of the kingdom (not from its capital).... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BROUGHT THE GODS, etc.] Similarly the Philistines brought away the ark which the Israelites had carried with them into battle at Ebenezer: 1 Samuel 4:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
COME, LET US, etc.] In connexion with the preceding narrative Amaziah's challenge might be explained as due to a desire to have satisfaction for the conduct of the Israelite forces as described in 2 Chronicles 25:13, but see on 2 Kings 14:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEHOAHAZ] i.e. Ahaziah: 2 Chronicles 21:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH OBEDEDOM] i.e. with the descendants of Obededom, who were porters of the Temple: 1 Chronicles 26:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CITY OF JUDAH] LXX has 'the city of David,' as in 2 Kings 14:20 and 2 Chronicles 24:1; 2 Chronicles 16:14; 2 Chronicles 21:1; 2 Chronicles 21:20, etc.... [ Continue Reading ]