2 Chronicles 20:1-18
Later ... Moabites ... Ammonites <0310 01121> [after this also.]
Moabites ... Ammonites <04124 01121> [the children of Moab.]
Jehoshaphat <0935 03092> [came against.]
side .... Dead Sea <03220 05676> [beyond the sea.]
That is, the Dead or Salt Sea, the western and northern boundary of Edom, which is the reading of one of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. (89,) instead of {aram}, "Syria."
Hazezon Tamar <02688> [Hazazon-tamar.]
En Gedi <05872> [En-gedi.]
afraid <03372> [feared.]
<06440> [himself. Heb. his face. seek the Lord. See on ch.]
so ............... observe <07121> [proclaimed.]
ask .... Lord's ............ ask .... Lord's <03068 01245> [ask help of the Lord.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
Lord <03068> [O Lord.]
God ........ God ..... heaven <0430 08064> [God in heaven.]
rules ..... kingdoms <04910 04467> [rulest not.]
<03027> [in thine hand.]
stand <03320> [none is able.]
God <0430> [our God.]
drove <03423> [who. Heb. thou. drive out.]
gave <05414> [gavest.]
friend <0157> [thy friend.]
built ..... temple <01129 04720> [built thee.]
[If, when evil.]
front ..... before <06440> [and in thy presence.]
present <08034> [thy name.]
temple .......... temple <01004> [is in this house.]
Several MSS. with the Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, read {nikra}, "is invoked:" "thy name is invoked in this house."
allow <05414> [whom thou.]
repaying .... come <01580 0935> [how they reward us.]
Six of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. and {r„ƒh}, "evil:" "Behold they reward us evil:" which is also the reading of the Targum.
drive <01644> [to cast us.]
judge <08199> [wilt.]
powerless <03581> [we have.]
know <03045> [neither.]
look <05869> [our eyes.]
Judah <03063> [all Judah.]
Jachaziel <03166> [Then upon.]
Spirit <07307> [came the Spirit.]
afraid <03372> [Be not afraid.]
battle <04421> [the battle.]
Ascent <04608> [cliff. Heb. ascent. Ziz.]
The cliff of Ziz was probably near Ziza, which Ptolemy places in Arabia Petra‘, long. 69 11/24 degrees lat. 31 degrees.
[brook. or, valley. the wilderness.]
The wilderness of Jeruel seems, from ver. 20, to have been a part of the wilderness of Tekoa.
fight <03898> [not need.]
stand ... watch <05975 07200> [stand ye still.]
Lord .................... Lord <03068> [for the Lord.]
bowed ..... face <06915 0639> [bowed his head.]
fell ... before <05307 06440> [fell before.]
