2 Chronicles 11:6-23
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.]
