2 Chronicles 13:4-22
Zemaraim <06787> [Zemaraim.]
Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, [Sh“merown <\\See definition 08111\\>,] so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; but was probably a hill on the confines of Ephraim, near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.
Listen .... Jeroboam <08085 03379> [Hear me.]
realize <03045> [Ought ye not.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
David <01732> [to David.]
formal agreement <04417 01285> [a covenant of salt.]
rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
Lawless ... men <0582 07386> [vain men.]
good-for-nothing .......... son <01121 01100> [the children of Belial.]
young man <05288> [young.]
resist <02388> [could not.]
<06440> [the kingdom.]
huge <01995 07227> [a great multitude.]
gold <02091> [with you golden.]
banished <05080> [cast out.]
priests ........... priests ....... do ................. priest <03548 06213> [made you priests.]
[consecrated himself. Heb. fill his hand.]
descendants ........................ young <01121> [young.]
But .......................................... gods <0430 03808> [no gods.]
Lord ................ Lord's <03068> [the Lord.]
We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him according to His own law. But what Abijah urged concerning the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as spoken by him, it favoured ostentation. Abijah himself was but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently connived at in his days. Yet it was true, that the men of Judah had the priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.
priests <03548> [the priests.]
offer <06999> [they burn.]
fragrant incense <07004 05561> [sweet incense.]
Bread <03899> [shewbread.]
lampstand <04501> [the candlestick.]
<08104> [we keep.]
God ............................. God <0430> [God.]
leader <07218> [for our captain.]
priests <03548> [his priests.]
fight .... Lord <03898 03068> [fight ye.]
win <06743> [ye shall not.]
ambush .................. ambushers <03993> [an ambushment.]
turned <06437> [looked back.]
cried out <06817> [cried.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
men .......... men <0376> [as the men.]
struck <05062 0430> [God smote.]
God handed ... over <05414 0430> [God delivered.]
500,000 <02568 03967> [five hundred.]
relied <08172> [relied.]
seized ..... cities <05892 03920> [took cities.]
Jeshanah <03466> [Jeshanah.]
Jeshanah, according to the Talmud, was not far from Sephoris. Perhaps it is the Migdal-Senna of Eusebius, eight miles north of Jericho.
Ephron <06085> [Ephrain.]
Ephrain, or Ephron, a city of Benjamin, is placed by Eusebius, eight miles north of Jerusalem, near Bethel. Josephus calls Ephrain and Bethel two little cities; and places the former in the tribe of Benjamin, near the wilderness of Judea, in the way to Jericho.
[Ephron.]
Jeroboam <03379> [did.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
died <04191> [he died.]
power <02388> [waxed.]
fourteen wives <0702 0802> [fourteen wives.]
fathered <03205> [begat.]
writings <04097> [story. or, commentary. Iddo.]
