2 Chronicles 1:3
Gibeon <01391> [Gibeon.]
tent <0168> [the tabernacle.]
servant <05650> [the servant.]
2 Chronicles 6:5
day <03117> [Since the day.]
live <08034> [my name.]
chosen ..................... choose <0977> [neither chose.]
The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.
2 Chronicles 6:20
watch <05869> [thine eyes.]
live <08034 07760> [put thy name.]
place ................ place <04725> [toward this place. or, in this place.]
2 Chronicles 8:18
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
[See on]
[Hiram. Ophir.]
Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}
took .... 450 <03947 0702> [took thence.]
2 Chronicles 20:26
Berachah ............... Berachah <01294> [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."
praised <01288> [blessed.]
called <08034> [the name.]
day .......................... day <03117> [unto this day.]
2 Chronicles 26:20
[hated also.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
2 Chronicles 28:9
went <03318> [he went out.]
Lord ...................... Lord <03068> [Behold.]
To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment: it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing; and it is no wonder that it produced the effect here described. That there was much humanity, as well as firmness, in the heads of the children of Ephraim, who joined with the prophet of Jehovah on this occasion, their subsequent conduct, as detailed in the fifteenth verse, sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had taken, and with clothed, shod, fed, and anointed these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho! We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows from the foundation of the world. The compliance also of the whole army, in leaving both the captives and spoil to the disposal of the princes, was really wonderful, and perhaps unparalleled in history. Both the princes and army are worthy to be held up to the admiration and imitation of mankind.
Lord ...................... Lord God <0430 03068> [because the Lord God.]
taken notice <05060> [reacheth.]
2 Chronicles 28:18
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
Beth Shemesh <01053> [Beth-shemesh.]
Aijalon <0357> [Ajalon.]
[Aijalon. Gederoth.]
Soco <07755> [Shocho.]
[Socoh. Timnah.]
[Timnath.]
2 Chronicles 32:21
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
messenger <04397> [angel.]
wiped out .... soldiers <03582 01368> [cut off all.]
princes <05057> [the leaders.]
humiliated <01322> [with shame.]
entered <0935> [he was come.]
struck ... down .... sword <05307 02719> [slew him. Heb. made him fall.]
