2 Chronicles 20:1-25
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.]
Levites <03881> [Levites.]
Korahites <07145> [Korhites.]
loudly <01419> [a loud.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
Listen <08085> [Hear ye.]
Trust .... Lord ........ safe Trust <0539 03068> [Believe in the Lord.]
Trust ........... safe Trust ....... prophets <0539 05030> [believe his.]
met <03289> [consulted.]
appointed <05975> [appointed.]
praise <01984> [that should praise. Heb. praisers of. the beauty.]
Lord ................ Give thanks .... Lord <03034 03068> [Praise the Lord.]
When ... began <06256 02490> [when they. Heb. in the time that they, etc. to sing and to.]
Heb. in singing and. the Lord set ambushments. Houbigant's version is, "the Lord set against the children of Amon and Moab ambushments of those who came from mount Seir against Judah; and the children of Ammon and Moab were smitten: but they afterwards rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, and utterly destroyed them; who being destroyed, they rose up one against one another, and mutually destroyed each other."
defeated <05062> [were smitten. or, smote one another.]
Mount Seir ............. Seir <08165 02022> [mount Seir.]
destroyed ... another <04889 07453> [to destroy another. Heb. for the destruction.]
dead bodies <06297> [they were dead.]
survivors <06413> [none escaped. Heb. there was not an escaping.]
found <04672> [they found.]
clothing <06297> [dead bodies.]
Instead of {pegarim,} "dead bodies," eight MSS. and several ancient editions read {begadim,} "garments." None of the ancient versions, except the Chaldee, have dead bodies: garments would therefore appear to be the true reading; and the succeeding clause should be rendered, "which they seized for themselves."
items <03627 02532> [precious jewels.]
so much <07227> [it was so much.]
