2 Chronicles 11:5--12:16
built <01129> [A.M. 3029-3032. B.C. 975-972. built.]
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
Bethlehem, called Bethlehem Judah (Jud 17:7,) to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in Zebulun, (Jos 19:15,) and also Ephratah, (i.e., fruitful,) and by the Arabs, Bait-el-lahm, is situated on a rising ground on the southern side of a deep and extensive valley, and reclining from E. to W. not quite six miles S. of Jerusalem.
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
Zur <01049> [Beth-zur.]
Soco <07755> [Shoco.]
[Socoh. Adullam.]
Gath <01661> [Gath.]
Mareshah <04762> [Mareshah.]
Ziph <02128> [Ziph.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
Zorah <06881> [Zorah.]
[Zoreah.]
[Ajalon. Hebron.]
fortified <02388> [he fortified.]
officers <05057> [captains.]
shields <06793> [he put shields.]
Judah <03063> [having Judah.]
supported ....... resided <03320 01366> [A.M. 3030. B.C. 974. resorted to him. Heb. presented themselves to him.]
pasturelands <04054> [suburbs.]
property <0272> [their possession.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
goat <08163> [for the devils.]
The word, {se‹rim} literally signifies hairy ones, or goats: see Note on Le 17:7.
calf <05695> [for the calves.]
Those ................. followed them <0310> [And after.]
<05414> [set.]
sacrifice <02076> [to sacrifice.]
supported <02388> [A.M. 3029-3032. B.C. 975-972. strengthened.]
three years ........... three years <07969 08141> [three years.]
daughter .......... daughter <01323> [A.M. 3029-3046. B.C. 975-958. daughter.]
Eliab was David's eldest brother; and more than eighty years had elapsed since David, at the age of thirty, began to reign: Abigail must therefore have been grand-daughter to Eliab; and this shows the latitude in which the words son and daughter are used in Scripture.
Eliab <0446> [Eliab.]
[Elihu.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
[Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Absalom.]
[Abishalom. Abijah.]
[Abijam.]
[Abia.]
wives ...... eighteen wives ....... twenty-eight <08083 0802> [eighteen wives.]
appointed Abijah <05975 029> [made Abijah.]
wisely <0995> [he dealt.]
placed ....... throughout <06555> [dispersed.]
fortified cities <05892 04694> [every fenced city.]
[many wives. Heb. a multitude of wives.]
Rehoboam's <07346> [A.M. 3032. B.C. 972. when Rehoboam.]
rejected <05800> [he forsook.]
Israel <03478> [all Israel.]
Shishak <07895> [A.M. 3034. B.C. 970. Shishak.]
unfaithful <04603> [because.]
1,200 <03967> [twelve hundred.]
innumerable number <04557> [without number.]
Libyans <03864> [Lubims.]
Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim (Ge 10:13,) were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia, (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Ac 2:10,) a district of Africa, adjoining to Egypt, and extending along the shore of the Mediterranean as far as the city of Cyrene.
Sukkites <05525> [the Sukkiims.]
The Sukkiim, (from {sachach,} "to cover,") are supposed to have been the Troglodites, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, a people of Egypt, on the west of the Red Sea, so called because they dwelt [en troglais,] in caves.
Cushites <03569> [Ethiopians.]
These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt.
[Cushim. Heb.]
fortified <04694> [the fenced.]
marched <0935> [came.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
rejected ...... rejected <05800 0637> [Ye have forsaken me.]
rejected ...... rejected ..... hand <05800 03027> [left you.]
humbled <03665> [humbled.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
destroy <07843> [therefore.]
soon <04592> [some. or, a little while.]
anger <02534> [and my wrath.]
subjects <05650> [Nevertheless.]
experience <03045> [that they may.]
Shishak <07895> [Shishak.]
took ............... took <03947> [took away.]
shields <04043> [the shields.]
bronze shields <04043 05178> [shields of brass.]
officers <08269> [the chief.]
humbled <03665> [when.]
Judah .... good things <01697 02896 03063> [also in Judah things went well. or, yet in Judah there were good things.]
Rehoboam ............... king <07346> [A.M. 3029-3046. B.C. 975-958. for Rehoboam.]
city <05892> [the city.]
<07760> [to put.]
Ammonite <05985> [an Ammonitess.]
determined <03559> [he prepared. Heb. he fixed.]
follow <01875> [to seek.]
start ... finish <07223 0314> [first and last.]
events ............. Annals <01697> [book. Heb. words. Shemaiah.]
Iddo <05714> [Iddo.]
<04421> [wars.]
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Abijah <029> [Abijah.]
[Abijam.]
[Abia.]
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