2 Chronicles 16:2-3
brought out.28:21; 2Ki 12:18; 16:8; 18:15Damascus. Heb. Darmeskek. a league.18:3; 19:2; Jud 2:2; Isa 31:1-3; 2Co 6:16break.Ge 20:9,10; Ex 32:21; Jos 9:19,20; 2Sa 21:2; Ps 15:4; Eze 17:18,19Ro 1:31,32; 2Ti 3:32 Chronicles 25:6
an hundred talents of silver.Estimating the shekel at 2s. 6d., and the talent, being 3,000 shekels, (see Ex 38:25, 26,) at 375£., one hundred talents would amount to 37,500£.; which, divided among 100,000 men, quotes only 7s. 6d.; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites.2 Chronicles 27:5
the king of the Ammonites.We find here, that he brought the Ammonites under a heavy tribute for three years; but whether this was the effect of his prevailing against them, is not so evident. Some think that they paid this tribute for three years, and then revolted; that, in consequence, he attacked them, and their utter subjection was the result. 20:1; Jud 11:4-33; 2Sa 10:1-14; Jer 49:1-6ten thousand.Rather, "ten thousand {cors} (korim) of wheat." The {cor} was same as the {homer,} and contained about 32 pecks 1 pint. So much. Heb. This.Psalms 46:9
maketh.Isa 2:4; 11:9; 60:18; Mic 4:3,4breaketh.76:3-6; Eze 39:3,9,10burneth.Jos 11:6,9; Mic 5:10
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