1Ch 15:4, 12, 25:6, 26:31, 2Ch 5:13, 29:4-11, 30, Ezr 8:15-20, Neh 11:20 | TSK | STEP

turned their backs. Heb. given the neck. Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.

3; 28:24; Le 24:2-8; 2Ki 16:17,18; Mal 1:10

Wherefore.

24:18; 34:24,25; 36:14-16; De 28:15-20

he hath delivered.It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners: see ch. 28:6-8.

trouble. Heb. commotion.

De 28:25

to astonishment.

Le 26:32; De 28:59; 1Ki 9:8; Jer 18:15,16; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18

our fathers.

28:5-8,17; Le 26:17; La 5:7

Now it is.

6:7,8

to make a covenant.To renew that covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign, and the spirit of which was, "I will be your God, ye shall be my people."

15:12,13; 23:16; 34:30-32; Ezr 10:3; Ne 9:38; 10:1-39; Jer 34:15,18

Jer 50:5; 2Co 8:5

that his fierce.

2Ki 23:3,26

negligent. or, deceived.

Ga 6:7,8

the Lord

Nu 3:6-9; 8:6-14; 18:2-6; De 10:8

burn incense. or, offer sacrifice.

Nu 16:35-40; 18:7

2 Chronicles 29:30

with the words.

2Sa 23:1,2; 1Ch 16:7-36

they sang.

Ps 32:11; 33:1; 95:1,2,6; 100:1,2; 149:2; Php 4:4

Ezra 8:15-20

the river that runneth.Ahava is supposed to be the river Adiava, which, with the Diava, is said by Ammianus to have given name to Adiabene, a province of Assyria, through which they flowed into the Tigris. These rivers were also called respectively, Anzabas and Zabas, the Caprus and Lycus of Ptolemy; the former of which he places, at its source, in long. 79 degrees, lat. 39® degrees, and at its junction with the Tigris, in long. 79® degrees, lat. 36 degrees 6'; and the latter, at its source, in long 78 degrees, lat. 39 degrees; and where it falls into the Tigris, in long. 79 degrees, lat. 36® degrees. They are now called the Great and Little Zab, or the Zabein, i.e., the two Zabs, which, says Ibn Haukal, "are considerable streams, each about half as large as the Dejleh (or Tigris). They rise among the mountains of Azerbaijan: of these, the larger is that which runs towards Haditheh. These streams form part of the Tigris, and water the district of Semerah."

Ps 137:1; Eze 1:1; 3:15; Ac 16:13

Ahava.

21,31

abode. Heb. pitched. and found.

2; 7:7,24

Shemaiah.

13; 10:21

Nathan.

10:39

Zechariah.

chief men.

men of understanding.

18; 1Ki 3:11; 1Ch 12:32; 26:14; 2Ch 2:12; Pr 2:6; 20:5; 28:2; Da 2:21

2Ti 2:7; 1Jo 5:20

Casiphia.Casiphia is supposed to denote the Caspian mountains, between Media and Hyrcania, near the Caspian Sea. It is evident, from a comparison of ch. 7:9 with ver. 31, that Casiphia could not be far from Ahava.

I told them. Heb. I put words in their mouth.

Ex 4:15; De 18:18; 2Sa 14:3,19; Jer 1:9; 15:19

the Nethinims.

2:43,58; 7:7

ministers.

Nu 8:22-26; 18:6; 1Ch 23:3-6,26-32; Tit 1:5

by the good hand.

22; 7:28; Ne 2:8; Pr 3:6

a man of understanding.

16; Pr 24:3; Jer 3:15; Da 1:20; 1Co 14:20

Mahli.

Nu 3:20; 1Ch 6:19