1Ki 15:24, 22:2-50, 2Ki 3:1, 2Ch 17-20 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. was buried.Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in 2 Ch 16:14. Jehoshaphat. Josaphat.

the Lord.This prophecy is couched in the ambiguous terms in which the heathen oracles were delivered. It may mean, either "The Lord will deliver it (Ramoth Gilead) into the king's (Ahab's) hand;" or, "The Lord will deliver (Israel) into the king's (of Syria) hand." So in the famous reply of the Delphian oracle to Pyrrhus: {Aio te Æacida, Romanos vincere posse: Ibis redibis nunquam in bello peribis;} "I say to thee, Pyrrhus the Romans shall overcome: thou shalt go, thou shalt return never in war shalt thou perish."

Is there not.

2Ki 3:11-13; 2Ch 18:6,7

yet one man.

18:4; 19:10,14; 20:41,42

but I hate him.

27; 20:43; 21:20; Ge 37:8; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 34:21; Pr 9:8; 15:12

Isa 49:7; Jer 18:18; 20:10; 43:3,4; Am 5:10; Zec 11:8; Mt 10:22

Joh 3:19-21; 7:7; 15:18,19; 17:14; Ga 4:16; Re 11:7-10

good.

13; Isa 30:10; Jer 38:4; Mic 2:11

concerning me.

20:35-42; 2Ki 9:22; Isa 3:11; 57:19-21

Let not the.

21:27-29; Pr 5:12-14; Mic 2:7

officer. or, eunuch.

2Ki 9:32; 2Ch 18:8; Isa 39:7; Da 1:18

Hasten.

26,27

having put.

30; Es 5:1; 6:8,9; Mt 6:20; 11:8; Ac 12:21; 25:23

void place. Heb. floor. all the prophets.

18:29; 2Ch 18:9-11; Jer 27:14-16; Eze 13:1-9

horns of iron.

Jer 27:2; 28:10-14; Zec 1:18-21; Ac 19:13-16; 2Co 11:13-15

2Ti 3:8

Thus saith.

Jer 23:17,25,31; 28:2,3; 29:21; Eze 13:6-9; 22:27,28; Mic 3:11

Go up.

6-15,32-36; 2Ch 35:22

Behold now.

Ps 10:11; 11:1; 14:1; 50:21; Isa 30:10,11; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13-17

Mic 2:6,7,11; 1Co 2:14-16

what the Lord.

Nu 22:38; 24:13; 2Ch 18:12,13; Jer 23:28; 26:2,3; 42:4; Eze 2:4-8

Eze 3:17-19; Ac 20:26,27; 2Co 2:17; 4:2; Ga 1:10

shall we go.

Go and prosper.This was strong irony; they were the precise words of the false prophets; but were spoken by Micaiah in such a tone and manner as at once shewed Ahab that he did not believe, but ridiculed these words of uncertainty. The reply of the Delphian oracle to Crosesus was as ambiguous as that returned to Pyrrhus, {Croesus Halym penetrans magnam pervertet opum vim,} "If Croesus crosses the Halys, he will overthrow a great empire." This he understood of the empire of Cyrus; the event proved it to be his own: he was deluded, yet the oracle maintained its credit.

18:27; Jud 10:14; 2Ki 3:13; 2Ch 18:14; Ec 11:9; Mt 26:45

shall I adjure.

Jos 6:26; 1Sa 14:24; 2Ch 18:15; Mt 26:63; Mr 5:7; Ac 19:13

that thou tell.

Jer 42:3-6; Mt 22:16,17

I saw.

1Sa 9:9; Jer 1:11-16; Eze 1:4; Ac 10:11-17

as sheep.

34-36; Nu 27:17; 2Ch 18:16,17; Jer 23:1,2; 50:6,17; Eze 34:4-6

Zec 10:2; 13:7; Mt 9:36

Did I not tell.

8; Pr 10:24; 27:22; 29:1; Lu 11:45

Hear thou.

Isa 1:10; 28:14; Jer 2:4; 29:20; 42:15; Eze 13:2; Am 7:16

I saw the Lord.Micaiah evidently gives here an account of what appeared to him in a vision: many of the circumstances must be considered as parabolical; for truth, rather than facts, is revealed in such representations.

2Ch 18:18-22; Isa 6:1-3; Eze 1:26-28; Da 7:9,10; Ac 7:55,56

Re 4:2,3

all the host.

Job 1:6; 2:1; Ps 103:20,21; Isa 6:2,3; Zec 1:10; Mt 18:10; 25:31

Heb 1:7,14; 12:22; Re 5:11

persuade. or, deceive.

Job 12:16; Jer 4:10; Eze 14:9

23; Job 1:6,7; 2:1

a lying spirit.

Job 1:8-11; 2:4-6; Joh 8:44; Ac 5:3,4; 2Th 2:9,10; 1Ti 4:1; 1Jo 4:6

Re 12:9,10; 13:14; 16:13,14; 20:3,7,10

Thou shalt.

20; Jud 9:23; Job 12:16; Ps 109:17; 2Th 2:10-12; Re 17:17

behold, the Lord.

Ex 4:21; 10:20; De 2:30; 2Ch 25:16; Isa 6:9,10; 44:20; Eze 14:3-5,9

Mt 13:13-15; 24:24,25

and the Lord.

8-11; 20:42; 21:19; Nu 23:19,20; 24:13; Isa 3:11

Zedekiah.

smote Micaiah.

2Ch 18:23,24; Isa 50:5,6; La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mr 14:65; 15:19,20

Joh 15:18,20; Ac 23:2

Which way.

Jer 28:10,11; 29:26,27; Mt 26:68; 27:42,43

Behold.

Nu 31:8; Isa 9:14-16; Jer 23:15; 28:16,17; 29:21,22,32; Am 7:17

2Pe 2:1; Re 19:20

into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb. achamber in a chamber.

20:30; *marg:

carry him back.

Put this fellow.

2Ch 16:10; 18:25-27; Jer 20:2; 29:26; 37:15; 38:6; La 3:53-55

Mr 6:17-28; Lu 3:20; Ac 5:18; 16:23,24; 24:25-27; 26:10; Eph 3:1

Re 2:10

bread of affliction.

De 16:3; Ps 80:5; 102:9; 127:2; Isa 30:20

until I come in peace.

Lu 12:45,46; 1Th 5:2,3; Jas 4:13,14

If thou return.

Nu 16:29; De 18:20-22; 2Ki 1:10,12; Isa 44:26; Jer 28:8,9

Ac 13:10,11

Hearken.

18:21-24,36,37; 2Ch 18:27; Am 3:1; Mic 1:2; Mr 7:14-16; 12:37

2-9; 2Ch 18:28

I will, etc. or, when he was to disguise himself, and enterinto the battle. put thou on.

10; Ps 12:2

disguised himself.

14:2; 20:38; 1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 14:2; 2Ch 18:29; 35:22; Pr 21:30

Jer 23:24

thirty and two.

20:24; 2Ch 18:30

Fight.

20:33-42

small nor great.

Ge 19:11; 1Sa 30:2; Jer 16:6

they turned.

Pr 13:20

Jehoshaphat.

Ex 14:10; 2Ch 18:31; Ps 50:15; 91:15; 116:1,2; 130:1-4; Jon 2:1,2

that they turned.

31; Ps 76:10

at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.

2Sa 15:11

and smote.

1Sa 17:49; 2Ki 9:24

joints of the harness. Heb. joints and the breast-plate.

Re 9:9

wounded. Heb. made sick.

2Ch 18:30; 35:23; *margins

Mic 6:13

increased. Heb. ascended. died at even.

28; 20:42

midst. Heb. bosom.

there went.

17,31; 12:16; 2Ki 14:12

Every man.

12:24; Jud 7:7,8; 21:24; 1Sa 4:10; 2Sa 19:8; 2Ki 14:12

was brought. Heb. came.

and the dogs.

21:19; Jos 23:14,15; Isa 44:25,26; 48:3-5; Jer 44:21-23; Zec 1:4-6

Mt 24:35

A.M. 3086-3107. B.C. 918-897. the rest.

14:19; 15:23,31; 16:5,20,27

the ivory house.That is, probably, decorated with ivory in such abundance as to merit the appellation of an ivory house.

10:18,22; Ps 45:8; Eze 27:6,15; Am 3:15; 6:4

slept.

2:10; 11:21; 14:31; De 31:16; 2Sa 7:12

Ahaziah.

51; 2Ki 1:2,17; 2Ch 20:35

A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. Jehoshaphat.

2; 1Ch 3:10; 2Ch 17:1; 20:31

began to reign."Began to reign alone. ver. 51."

thirty and five.

2Ki 1:17; 8:16

And his mother's.

14:21; 15:2,10

he walked.

15:11,14; 2Ch 14:2-5,11; 15:8,17; 17:3

he turned.

15:5; Ex 32:8; 1Sa 12:20,21; 2Ch 16:7-12; Ps 40:4; 101:3; 125:5

Pr 4:27

doing.

2Ch 17:3-6; 19:3,4; 20:3-30

the high.

14:23; 15:14; 2Ki 12:3; 14:3,4; 15:3,4; 18:22

made peace.

2; 2Ki 8:18; 2Ch 19:2; 21:6; 2Co 6:14

Now.

are they.

11:41; 14:29

the remnant.

14:24; 15:12; Ge 19:5; De 23:17; Jud 19:22; Ro 1:26,27; 1Co 6:9

1Ti 1:10; Jude 1:7

no king.

Ge 25:23; 27:40; 36:31-43; 2Sa 8:14; 2Ki 3:9; 8:20; Ps 108:9,10

Jehoshaphat.

2Ch 20:35,36-21:1

made ships. or, had ten ships.

10:22; 2Ch 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; 60:9; Jon 1:3

Tharshish.Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."

to Ophir.

9:28; Ps 45:9

they went not.

2Ch 20:37; 25:7

Ezion-geber.

9:26; Nu 33:35,36

A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. slept with his fathers.

40; 2:10; 2Ch 21:1

in the city.

11:43; 14:31; 15:24

Jehoram.

2Ki 8:16-18; 2Ch 21:5-7

2 Kings 3:1

1 Jehoram's reign.

4 Mesha rebels.

6 Jehoram, with Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, being distressed for want of water, by Elisha obtains water, and promise of victory.

21 The Moabites, deceived by the colour of the water, coming to spoil, are overcome.

26 The king of Moab, failing in his attempt to break through to the king of Edom, sacrifices his son, and raises the siege.

Jehoram.

1:17; 8:16

Joram.

1Ki 22:51

2 Chronicles 17

1 Jehoshaphat, succeeding Asa, reigns well, and prospers.

7 He sends Levites with the princes to teach Judah.

10 His enemies being terrified by God, some of them bring him presents and tribute.

12 His greatness, captains, and armies.

Jehoshaphat.

1Ki 15:24; 22:41; 1Ch 11:10; Mt 1:8

Josaphat. and strengthened.

12:1; 26:8; 32:5; 1Sa 23:16; Eze 7:27; Eph 6:10

placed forces.

11:11,12

in the cities.

15:8

the Lord.

15:2,9; Ge 39:2,3,21; Ex 3:12; 4:12; Jos 1:5,9; Jud 2:18; 6:12

2Sa 5:10; 1Ch 22:18; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:10; 41:10; Mt 1:23; 18:20

Mt 28:20; 2Ti 4:22

he walked.

2Sa 8:15; 1Ki 11:6; 15:3,4; 2Ki 14:3; 16:2; 18:3; 22:2; Ps 132:1-5

his father David. or, his father, and of David.

14:2-5,11; 15:8-13

sought.

Jud 2:11; 8:33; Jer 2:23

walked.

Lu 1:6; 1Th 2:12; 4:1

not after.

1Ki 12:28,30,33; 13:33,34; 16:31-33; 2Ki 8:18; 17:19; Jer 3:7,8

Ho 4:15

A.M. 3091. B.C. 913. the Lord.

2Sa 7:25,26; 1Ki 9:4,5; Ps 127:1; 132:12; 1Pe 5:10

brought. Heb. gave. presents.

32:23; 1Sa 10:27; 1Ki 4:21; 10:25; Ps 68:29; 72:10; 76:11; Mt 2:11

he had riches.

1:15; 9:27; 18:1; 32:27-29; Ge 13:2; 26:13,14; De 8:13,14; 1Ki 10:27

Job 42:12; Mt 6:33

his heart.

De 28:47; Job 22:26

lifted up. that is, was encouraged. in the ways.

Ps 18:21,22; 119:1; 138:5; Ho 14:9; Ac 13:10

he took away.

14:3; 15:17; 19:3; 20:33; 31:1; 34:3-7; 1Ki 22:43

A.M. 3092. B.C. 912. he sent.In these verse we have an account of a remarkable itinerant ministry established by Jehoshaphat, in which three classes of men were employed: 1. the Princes; 2. the Levites; 3. the Priests. We may presume that the Princes instructed the people in the nature of the civil law and constitution of the kingdom; that the Levites instructed them in every thing that appertained to the temple service, and ritual law; and that the Priests instructed them in the nature and design of their religion. Thus the nation became thoroughly instructed in their duty to God, to the king, and to each other; they therefore became as one man; and against a people thus united, on such principles, no enemy could be successful.

De 4:5; Ps 34:11; 51:13; Ec 1:12; 12:9,10; Isa 49:23

to teach.

15:3; 30:22; 35:3; De 33:10; Ne 8:7,8,13,14; 9:3; Mt 4:23; Mr 4:2

Lu 4:43,44; Ac 1:1

priests.

Ezr 7:1-6; Mal 2:7

they taught.

35:3; Ne 8:7

the book.

De 6:6-9; 31:11-13; Jos 1:7,8; Isa 8:20; Mt 15:2-9; 28:19,20

Lu 4:17-19; Joh 5:39,46; Ac 13:15; 15:21; 28:23; Ro 3:2; 1Pe 4:11

throughout.

Mt 10:23; 11:1; Ac 8:40

the fear.

14:14; Ge 35:5; Ex 15:14-16; Jos 2:9-11

fell. Heb. was. so that.

16:9; Ex 34:24; Pr 16:7

brought.

5; 9:14; 26:8; 2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 3:4

A.M. 3092-3115. B.C. 912-889. waxed great.

18:1; 1Ch 29:25

in Judah.

8:2-6; 11:5-12; 14:6,7; 26:6-9; 27:4; 32:5,27-29

castles. or, palaces.

much business.

26:10-15; 1Ch 27:25-31

the numbers.

Ge 12:2; 13:16; 15:5

to the house.

Nu 1:2,18

three hundred.

11:1; 13:3; 14:8; 26:13

next to him. Heb. at this hand.

willingly.

Jud 5:2,9; 1Ch 29:9,14,17; Ps 110:3; 2Co 8:3-5,12

armed men.

14:8; 2Sa 1:21,22

put in.

2,12; 11:12,23

2 Chronicles 18

1 Jehoshaphat, joined in affinity with Ahab, is persuaded to go with him against Ramoth-gilead.

4 Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain there.

A.M. 3107. B.C. 897. riches.

1:11-15; 17:5,12; Mt 6:33

joined affinity.He took Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab, to be wife to his son Joram, (2 Ki 8:18;) which fatal connection was highly displeasing to God, and Jehoshaphat was severely reproved for it by Jehu the seer, 2 Ch 19:1-3.

31; 19:2; 21:6; 22:2,3; 1Ki 16:31-33; 21:25; 2Ki 8:18,26,27; 11:1

2Co 6:14

after certain years. Heb. at the end of years.

1Ki 17:7; Ne 13:6; *margins

he went.

19:2; 1Ki 22:2-28

Ahab.

1Ki 1:9; Isa 22:12,13; Lu 17:27-29

persuaded.

1Ki 22:4,20-22

Ramoth-gilead.

De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 1Ki 4:13; 2Ki 9:1

I am as thou.

1Ki 22:4; 2Ki 3:7; Ps 139:21; Eph 5:11; 2Jo 1:10,11

Enquire.

34:26; 1Sa 23:2; 23:2,4,9-12; 2Sa 2:1; 5:19,23; 1Ki 22:5,6

Ps 27:4; Jer 21:2; Eze 20:3

prophets.

1Ki 18:19; 2Ki 3:13; 2Ti 4:3

Shall we go.

Jer 38:14-28; 42:2,3,20

Go up.

14,20,21; Jer 8:10,11; 23:14,17; 28:1-17; Eze 13:3-16,22; Mic 2:11

Mic 3:11; Re 19:20

Is there not.

1Ki 22:7-9; 2Ki 3:11-13

besides. Heb. yet, or more.

one man.

1Ki 18:4; 19:10

I hate him.

1Ki 18:17; 20:42,43; 21:20; Ps 34:21; 55:3; 69:14; Pr 9:8; 29:10

Jer 18:18; Am 5:10; Mr 6:18,19,27; Lu 6:22; Joh 7:7; 15:18,19,24

Ga 4:16

good.

Isa 30:10; Jer 38:4

me.

13; 2Ki 9:22; Eze 3:17-19; Ac 20:26,27

Let not the.

Pr 25:12; Mic 2:7

officers. or, eunuchs.

1Sa 8:15; 1Ch 28:1; *margins

Isa 39:7; Da 1:3,7,8

Fetch quickly. Heb. hasten.

25,26; 1Ki 22:9

sat either.

1Ki 22:10-12; Isa 14:9; Eze 26:16; Da 7:9; Mt 19:28

clothed.

29; Mt 6:29; 11:8

void place. or, floor.Threshing-floors, among the ancient Jews, as we have before remarked, were only, as they are to this day in the East, round level plats of ground in the open air. Hence a floor might well be near the gate of Samaria, which was built on a hill, and afford no improper place for the kings of Judah and Israel to give audience to the prophets.

all the prophets.

Jer 27:14-16

horns of iron.Mr. Bruce, in describing the head-dress of the governors of Abyssinia, says, "A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head: in the middle of this was a horn, or conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called {kirn,} {[keren,]} and is only worn in reviews, or parades after victory." Such, it may be supposed, were the horns of iron which Zedekiah (who appears to have acted the hero returning from a military triumph) made for himself, when he presumed, in the name of Jehovah, to flatter his prince with the promise of victory: "Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed."

Jer 27:2; 28:10-14; Zec 1:18-21; 2Ti 3:8

Thus.

Jer 23:17,21,25,31; 28:2,3; 29:21; Eze 13:7; 22:28

they be consumed. Heb. thou consume them.

all the prophets.

5,12,33,34; Pr 24:24,25; Mic 3:5; 2Pe 2:1-3; Jude 1:16; Re 16:13,14

Re 19:20

Behold.

Job 22:13; Ps 10:11; Isa 30:10; Ho 7:3; Am 7:13; Mic 2:6,11

1Co 2:14-16

assent. Heb. mouth.

Jos 9:2; *marg:

even what my God.

Nu 22:18-20,35; 23:12,26; 24:13; 1Ki 22:14; Jer 23:28; 42:4

Eze 2:7; Mic 2:6,7; Ac 20:27; 1Co 11:23; 2Co 2:17; Ga 1:10; 1Th 2:4

Go ye up.

1Ki 18:27; 22:15; Ec 11:1; La 4:21; Am 4:4,5; Mt 26:45

shall I adjure.

1Sa 14:24; 1Ki 22:16; Mt 26:63; Mr 5:7; Ac 19:13

he said.

Mt 26:64

as sheep.

33,34; 1Ki 22:17,34-36; Jer 23:1,2; Eze 34:5,6,8; Zec 10:2; 13:7

Mt 9:36; Mr 6:34

master.

2Sa 2:7; 5:2; 2Ki 10:3

Did I not tell.

7; 1Ki 22:18; Pr 29:1; Jer 43:2,3

but evil. or, but for evil.

hear the word.

Isa 1:10; 28:14; 39:5; Jer 2:4; 19:3; 34:4; Am 7:16

I saw.

1Ki 22:19-23; Isa 6:1-5; Da 7:9; Ac 7:55,56

all the host.

Ge 32:2; Ps 103:20,21; Zec 1:10

Who shall entice.

1Ki 22:20; Job 12:16; Isa 6:9,10; 54:16; Eze 14:9; 2Th 2:11,12

Jas 1:13,14

go up.

25:8,19; Pr 11:5

there came.

Job 1:6; 2:1; 2Co 11:3,13-15

a lying spirit.

22; Ge 3:4,5

See on

1Ki 22:21,22; Joh 8:44; 1Jo 4:6; Re 12:9; 13:14; 20:8

Thou shalt.

19; Jud 9:23; Job 1:12; 2:6; Ps 109:17

the lord hath.

Ex 4:21; Job 12:16; Isa 19:14; Eze 14:3-5,9; Mt 24:24,25

2Co 11:11-13; 2Th 2:9-11; 1Ti 4:1,2

and the Lord.

7,17; 25:18; Isa 3:11; Jer 18:11; Mic 2:3; Mt 26:24,25; Mr 14:20,21

Zedekiah.

10; 1Ki 22:23-25; Isa 50:5,6; Jer 20:2; La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 26:67

Mr 14:65; Joh 18:22,23; Ac 23:2,3

Which way.

Jer 29:26,27; Mt 26:67,68; Joh 9:40,41

Behold.

Isa 26:11; Jer 28:16,17; 29:21,22,32

into an inner chamber. or, from chamber to chamber. Heb.into a chamber in a chamber. "In one of the halls of the {seraglio} at Constantinople," says De La Motraye, "the eunuch made us pass by several little chambers, with doors shut, like the cells of monks or nuns, as far as I could judge by one that another eunuch opened." This exactly corresponds with the idea of a "chamber within a chamber;" and it would appear that Micaiah predicted that Zedekiah should fly for shelter to a Harem, which we have seen was deemed inviolate. (See on 1 Sa 19:16.)

1Ki 20:30; Isa 26:20

and carry him back.

8; Jer 37:15-21; 38:6,7; Ac 24:25-27

Put.

15; 16:10; 1Ki 22:26-28; Jer 20:2,3; Mt 5:12; Lu 3:19,20; Ac 5:18

2Co 11:23; Re 11:10

this fellow.

1Sa 25:21; Mt 12:24; Lu 23:2; Ac 22:22

bread of affliction.

Ps 80:5; 102:9; Isa 30:20

until I return.

De 29:19; Ps 10:5; Pr 14:16; 1Th 5:2,3

If.

Nu 16:29; Am 9:10; Ac 13:10,11

Hearken.

Mt 13:9; 15:10; Mr 7:14; Lu 20:45,46

the king.

1Ki 22:29-33

I will disguise.

1Sa 28:8; 1Ki 14:2-6; 20:38; Job 24:15; Jer 23:24

put thou on thy robes.

Ps 12:2; Pr 26:25

the king.

35:22,23

Fight ye.

1Ki 20:33,34,42

small or great.

15:13; Ge 19:11; De 1:17

Jehoshaphat.

13:14; 14:11; Ex 14:10; Ps 116:1,2; 2Co 1:9,10

the Lord.

26:7; Ps 34:7; 46:1,11; 94:17; 118:13

God moved them.

Ezr 1:1; 7:27; Ne 1:11; Pr 16:7; 21:1

from pursuing him. Heb. from after him.

1Ki 22:33

a certain man.

1Ki 22:34

at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.

2Sa 15:11

between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between thebreast plate. The {shiryon,} in Syriac, {sheryono,} seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound.

1Ki 22:34,35

wounded. Heb. made sick.

35:23

he died.

16,19,27; Nu 32:23; Pr 13:21; 28:17

2 Chronicles 19

1 Jehoshaphat, reproved by Jehu, visits his kingdom.

5 His instructions to the judges;

8 to the priests and Levites.

A.M. 3108. B.C. 896. in peace.

And Jehu.

Hanani.

the seer.

Shouldest.

18:3,28; 1Ki 21:25; Ps 15:4; 139:21,22; Pr 1:10-19; Ro 1:32

Eph 5:11; 2Jo 1:10,11

hate the Lord.

18:7; Ex 20:5; De 5:9; 7:10; 32:41; 33:11; Ps 21:8; 68:1; 71:15

Joh 15:18,23; Ro 1:30; 8:7; Jas 4:4

is wrath.

32:25; Ps 90:7,8; Ro 1:18; 1Co 11:31,32

good things.

12:12; 17:3-6; 1Ki 14:13; Ro 7:18

prepared.

12:14; 30:19; Ezr 7:10; Ps 57:7

went out again. Heb. returned and went out.

1Sa 7:15-17

Beer-sheba.

Ge 21:33; Jud 20:1

mount.

Jos 17:15; Jud 19:1

brought.

15:8-13; 29:10,11; 1Sa 7:3,4; Mal 4:6; Lu 1:17

8; De 16:18-20; Ro 13:1-5; 1Pe 2:13,14

Take.

Jos 22:5; 1Ch 28:10; Lu 12:15; 21:8; Ac 5:35; 22:26

ye judge.

De 1:17; Ps 82:1-6; Ec 5:8

judgment. Heb. matter of judgment.

let the.

Ge 42:18; Ex 18:21,22,25,26; Ne 5:15; Isa 1:23-26

no iniquity.

Ge 18:25; De 32:4; Ro 3:5,6; 9:14

respect of persons.

De 10:17,18; Job 34:19; Mt 22:16; Ac 10:34; Ro 2:11; Ga 2:6

Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; 1Pe 1:17

taking of gifts.

Ex 23:8; De 16:18,19; Isa 1:23; 33:15; Mic 7:3

Levites.

17:8; De 17:8-13; 1Ch 23:4; 26:29

the judgment.

Ex 18:19-26; De 21:5; 25:1

in the fear.

7; De 1:16,17; 2Sa 23:3; Isa 11:3-5; 32:1

between blood.

De 17:8-13

warn them.

Eze 3:18-21; 33:6; Ac 20:31; 1Th 5:14

wrath come.

Nu 16:46; Jos 22:18-20

Amariah.

1Ch 6:11

all matters.

8; 1Ch 26:30; Mal 2:7

Deal courageously. Heb. Take courage and do.

Jos 1:6,9; 1Ch 22:11,16,19; 1Co 16:13; 2Ti 2:1

the Lord.

6; 15:2; Ps 18:25,26; Joh 14:23,24; Ro 2:4-13; Php 4:8,9

the good.

Ps 37:23; 112:5; Pr 2:20; Ec 2:26; Lu 23:50; Ac 11:24

2 Chronicles 20

1 Jehoshaphat, invaded by Moab, proclaims a fast.

5 His prayer.

14 The prophecy of Jahaziel.

20 Jehoshaphat exhorts the people, and sets singers to praise the Lord.

22 The great overthrow of his enemies.

26 The people, having blessed God at Berachah, return in triumph.

31 Jehoshaphat's reign.

35 His convoy of ships, according to the prophecy of Eliezer, unhappily perish.

after this also.

19:5,11; 32:1

the children of Moab.

Ps 83:5-8; Isa 7:1; 8:9,10; 16:6

came against.

19:2; Jer 10:24; Re 3:19

beyond the sea.That is, the Dead or Salt Sea, the western and northern boundary of Edom, which is the reading of one of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. (89,) instead of {aram}, "Syria."

Ge 14:3; Nu 34:12; Jos 3:16

Hazazon-tamar.

Ge 14:7

En-gedi.

Jos 15:62; 1Sa 23:29; So 1:14

feared.

Ge 32:7-11,24-28; Ps 56:3,4; Isa 37:3-6; Jon 1:16; Mt 10:28

himself. Heb. his face. seek the Lord. See on ch.

11:16; 19:3

proclaimed.

Jud 20:26; 1Sa 7:6; Ezr 8:21-23; Es 4:16; Jer 36:9; Da 9:3

Joe 1:14; 2:12-18; Jon 3:5-9

ask help of the Lord.

Ps 34:5,6; 50:15; 60:10-12

the cities.

19:5; Ps 69:35

Jehoshaphat.

6:12,13; 34:31; 2Ki 19:15-19

O Lord.

Ex 3:6,15,16; 1Ch 29:18

God in heaven.

De 4:39; Jos 2:11; 1Ki 8:23; Ps 115:3; Isa 57:15,16; 66:1; Mt 6:9

rulest not.

1Ch 29:11,12; Ps 47:2,8; Jer 27:5-8; Da 4:17,25,32-35

in thine hand.

1Ch 29:11,12; Ps 62:11; Mt 6:13

none is able.

Ac 11:17

our God.

14:11; Ge 17:7; Ex 6:7; 19:5-7; 20:2; 1Ch 17:21-24

who. Heb. thou. drive out.

Ex 33:2; Ps 44:2

gavest.

Ge 12:7; 13:15; Jos 24:3,13; Ne 9:8

thy friend.

Isa 41:8; Joh 11:11; 15:15; Jas 2:23

built thee.

2:4; 6:10

If, when evil.

6:28-30; 1Ki 8:33,37

and in thy presence.

Mt 18:20

thy name.

6:20; Ex 20:24; 23:21

is in this house.Several MSS. with the Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, read {nikra}, "is invoked:" "thy name is invoked in this house."

whom thou.

Nu 20:17-21; De 2:4,5,9,19; Jud 11:15-18

how they reward us.Six of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. and {räâh}, "evil:" "Behold they reward us evil:" which is also the reading of the Targum.

Ge 44:4; Ps 7:4; 35:12; Pr 17:13; Jer 18:20

to cast us.

Jud 11:23,24; Ps 83:3-12

wilt.

De 32:36; Jud 11:27; 1Sa 3:13; Ps 7:6,8; 9:19; 43:1; Isa 2:4; 42:4

Joe 3:12; Re 19:11

we have.

2Sa 14:11; 1Sa 14:6; 2Co 1:8,9

neither.

2Ki 6:15

our eyes.

Ps 25:15; 121:1,2; 123:1,2; 141:8; Jon 2:4

all Judah.

De 29:10; Ezr 10:1; Jon 3:5; Ac 21:5

Then upon.

Isa 58:9; 65:24; Da 9:20,21; Ac 10:4,31

came the Spirit.

15:1; 24:20; Nu 11:25,26; 24:2

Be not afraid.

32:7,8; Ex 14:13,14; De 1:29,30; 20:1,4; 31:6,8; Jos 11:6; Ne 4:14

Ps 17:1,2; Isa 41:10-16; 43:1,2

the battle.

32:8; 1Sa 17:47

cliff. Heb. ascent. Ziz.The cliff of Ziz was probably near Ziza, which Ptolemy places in Arabia Petraæ, long. 69 11/24 degrees lat. 31 degrees.

brook. or, valley. the wilderness.The wilderness of Jeruel seems, from ver. 20, to have been a part of the wilderness of Tekoa.

not need.

22,23; Ex 14:13,14,25

stand ye still.

Ps 46:10,11; Isa 30:7,15; La 3:26; 3:26

for the Lord.

15:2; 32:8; Nu 14:9; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:9,10; 41:10; Am 5:14; Mt 1:23

Mt 28:20; Ro 8:31; 2Ti 4:22

bowed his head.

7:3; Ge 24:26; Ex 4:31

fell before.

Job 1:20; Ps 95:6

Levites.

1Ch 15:16-22; 16:5,42; 23:5; 25:1-7

Korhites.

Ps 44:1; 49:1; *titles

a loud.

5:13; Ezr 3:12,13; Ne 12:42,43; Ps 81:1; 95:1,2

Tekoa.

11:6; 2Sa 14:2; 1Ch 4:5; Jer 6:1

Hear ye.

Believe in the Lord.

Isa 7:9; 26:3; Joh 11:40; 14:1; Ro 8:31; Heb 11:6

believe his.

Ex 14:31; Lu 16:31; Joh 5:46,47; 13:20

consulted.

1Ch 13:1,2; Pr 11:14

appointed.

29:25-30; 30:21; Ezr 3:10,11; Ne 12:27

that should praise. Heb. praisers of. the beauty.

1Ch 16:29; Ps 29:2; 50:2; 90:17; 96:9

Praise the Lord.

5:13; 7:3,6; 1Ch 16:34,41; Ezr 3:11; Ps 106:1; 107:1; 136:1-26

Jer 33:11

when they. Heb. in the time that they, etc. to sing and to.Heb. in singing and. the Lord set ambushments. Houbigant's version is, "the Lord set against the children of Amon and Moab ambushments of those who came from mount Seir against Judah; and the children of Ammon and Moab were smitten: but they afterwards rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, and utterly destroyed them; who being destroyed, they rose up one against one another, and mutually destroyed each other."

Jud 7:22; 1Sa 14:16,20; 2Ki 6:17; Ps 35:5,6; Isa 19:2; Eze 38:21

were smitten. or, smote one another.

mount Seir.

Ge 14:6; 36:8,9; De 2:5; Jos 24:4; Eze 35:2,3

to destroy another. Heb. for the destruction.

they were dead.

Ex 14:30; 1Ch 5:22; Ps 110:6; Isa 37:36; Jer 33:5

none escaped. Heb. there was not an escaping.

Ezr 9:14

they found.

Ex 12:35,36; 1Sa 30:19,20; 2Ki 7:9-16; Ps 68:12; Ro 8:37

dead bodies.Instead of {pegarim,} "dead bodies," eight MSS. and several ancient editions read {begadim,} "garments." None of the ancient versions, except the Chaldee, have dead bodies: garments would therefore appear to be the true reading; and the succeeding clause should be rendered, "which they seized for themselves."

precious jewels.

Ex 3:22; Nu 31:15; Jud 8:24-26; Pr 3:15

it was so much.

Eze 39:8,9

Berachah. that is, Blessing.Having previously sought deliverance by fasting and prayer, and received the assurance of it with grateful joy, Jehoshaphat and his army returned immediate and fervent thanks and praise to the Lord, who had in so wonderful a manner performed his promise. Scott, who quotes the following from Bp. Patrick: "They did not return every man to his own home; but first went back to Jerusalem, to bless the Lord again for hearing their prayer and making good his promises."

blessed.

Ex 15:1-19; 2Sa 22:1; Ps 103:1,2; 107:21,22; Lu 1:68; Re 19:1-6

the name.

Ge 28:19; 32:20; Ex 17:15; 1Sa 7:12; Isa 62:4; Ac 1:19

unto this day.

5:9

forefront. Heb. head.

2Sa 6:14,15; Mic 2:13; Heb 6:20

the Lord.

1Sa 2:1; Ne 12:43; Ps 20:5; 30:1; Isa 35:10; 51:11; Re 18:20

with psalteries.Instead of celebrating his own heroism or the valour of his troops on this memorable occasion, this excellent prince sung with his whole army the praises of Jehovah, the God of hosts, who disposes of the victory according to his pleasure. This conduct was becoming the descendant and successor of David, the man after God's own heart, and of a religious people, the peculiar inheritance of Jehovah.

2Sa 6:5; 1Ch 13:8; 23:5; 25:6; Ps 57:8; 92:3; 149:3; 150:3-5

Re 14:2,3

the fear.

17:10; Ge 35:5; Ex 23:27; Jos 5:1; 2Ki 7:6

they had heard.

Ex 15:14-16; Jos 2:9-11; 9:9-11

his God.

14:6,7; 15:15; Jos 23:1; 2Sa 7:1; Job 34:29; Pr 16:7; Joh 14:27

A.M. 3090-3115. B.C. 914-889. Jehoshaphat.

1Ki 22:41-44

he walked.

17:3-6