2Ki 8:20-22, 2Ch 25:11-12 | TSK | STEP

2 Kings 8:20-22

Edom.

made a king.

Zair.Zair is supposed by Calmet and others to be the same as Seïr, the country of Seir the Horite, inhabited by the Edomites or Idumeans. Probably the former was a dialectical pronunciation of the latter.

Yet."And so fulfilled. Ge 27:40."

Libnah.

19:8; Jos 21:13; 2Ch 21:10

2 Chronicles 25:11-12

valley.

2Sa 8:13; 2Ki 14:7; Ps 60:1; *title

And other ten thousand.No intimation is given on what account, or on what provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of war was adopted. The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever they had it in their power.

cast them.

2Sa 12:31; 1Ch 20:3

broken in pieces.

20:10; 21:8-10