2Ch 26 | TSK | STEP | Uzziah succeeding, and reigning well in the days of Zechariah, prospers. Waxing proud, he invades the priest's office, and is smitten with leprosy. He dies, and Jotham succeeds him. all the. Uzziah. Azariah. Ozias.

Jabneh.Jabneh, or Jamnia, was given to the tribe of Dan; and was situated between Lydda and Azotus. It is now called Yebna, and is described as "a village about twelve miles distant from Jaffa, (Joppa,) in a fine open plain, surrounded by hills, and covered by herbage. On sloping hills of easy ascent, by which the plains were bordered, Yebna, Ekron, Ashdod, and Askalon were in sight."

about. or, in the country of.

1Sa 5:1,6

God helped.

14:11; 1Ch 5:20; 12:18; Ps 18:29,34,35; Isa 14:29; Ac 26:22

the Arabians.

17:11; 21:16

the Ammonites.

20:1; Ge 19:38; De 2:19; Jud 11:15-18; 1Sa 11:1; 2Sa 8:2

his name.

Ge 12:2; 2Sa 8:13; 1Ki 4:31; Mt 4:24

spread. Heb. went.

the corner gate.

25:23; 2Ki 14:13; Jer 31:38; Zec 14:10

the valley gate.

Ne 3:13,19,32

the turning.

Ne 3:20,24

fortified. or, repaired.

digged many wells. or, cut out many cisterns.

Ge 26:18-21

he had much.

2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:26-31

Carmel. or, fruitful fields.

2Ki 19:23; Isa 29:17

husbandry. Heb.ground.

went out.

2Ki 5:2

an army. Heb. the power of an army. three hundred.

11:1; 13:3; 14:8; 17:14-19

slings to cast stone. Heb. stones of slings.

Jud 20:16; 1Sa 17:49

cunning men.

2:7,14; Ex 31:4

to shoot arrows.These engines, it is probable, bore some resemblance to the {balistæ} and {catapultæ} of the Romans, which were employed for throwing stones and arrows, and were in reality the mortars and carcasses of antiquity. With respect to the towers which Uzziah built in the wilderness, (ver. 10,) Mr. Harmer appears to have given a truer view of the subject than commentators in general have done, who suppose that they were conveniences made only for sheltering the shepherds from bad weather, or to defend them from incursions of enemies; for they might rather be designed to keep the nations that pastured there in awe, and also to induce them quietly to pay the tribute to which the 8th verse seems to refer. William of Tyre describes a country not far from the Euphrates as inhabited by Syrian and Armenian Christians, who fed great flocks and herds there, but were kept in subjection to the Turks, in consequence of their living among them in strong places.

spread far. Heb. went forth.

Mt 4:24

when he was.

25:19; 32:25; De 8:14,17; 32:13-15; Pr 16:18; Hab 2:4; Col 2:18

went into.

2Ki 16:12,13

to burn.

Nu 16:1,7,18,35; 1Ki 12:33; 13:1-4

Azariah.

1Ch 6:10

valiant men.

1Ch 12:28; 26:6