2 Chronicles 21:1--22:12
Jehoshaphat <03092> [A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. Jehoshaphat.]
buried <06912> [was buried.]
Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
king <04427> [reigned.]
"Alone."
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
Jehoshaphat was certainly not king of Israel, but of Judah: {Yisra‰l} must therefore be a mistake for {Yehoodah;} which is the reading of thirty-eight of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and of the Syriac, Arabic, Septuagint, and Vulgate.
gave ... many .................. gave <05414 07227> [gave them.]
kingdom <04467> [the kingdom.]
He associated him with himself in the kingdom about three years before his death, and in the fifth year of Joram king of Israel; so that Jehoram reigned three years with his father, and five years alone, in all eight years.
Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
"Jehoram made partner of the kingdom with his father, 1 Ki 8:16."
killed .... brothers <02026 0251> [slew all.]
Jehoram <03088> [A.M. 3112-3119. B.C. 892-885. Jehoram.]
"In consort, 2 Ki 8:17."
footsteps <01870> [in the way.]
daughter <01323> [he had.]
Lord <03068> [Howbeit.]
promise <01285> [because.]
<0559> [as he promised.]
dynasty <05216> [light. Heb. lamp, or candle.]
Edom <0123> [A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. the Edomites.]
control <03027> [dominion. Heb. hand. and made.]
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
rejected <05800> [because.]
built <06213> [Moreover.]
residents <03427> [caused.]
unfaithful <02181> [fornication.]
unfaithful <05080> [compelled.]
letter <04385> [A.M. 3116. B.C. 888. a writing.]
"Which was writ before his assumption."
Elijah ... prophet <05030 0452> [Elijah the prophet.]
If the account of the translation of Elijah be given in the order in which it happened, then it occurred in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram. Hence, it is probable that he wrote it before his assumption, and left it to be delivered by Elisha or one of the prophets.
footsteps ..... Jehoshaphat <01870 03092> [in the ways of Jehoshaphat.]
footsteps ......... Asa <01870 0609> [in the ways of Asa.]
footsteps <01870> [in the way.]
unfaithful <02181> [a whoring.]
killed <02026> [hast slain.]
severely <04046> [plague. Heb. stroke.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
Many of the people had concurred in Jehoram's idolatry, and some of them must have been instruments in his base, unnatural murders; they were therefore joined in his punishment, and he suffered by the loss of his subjects.
sons <01121> [thy children.]
disease <04245> [by disease.]
This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa.
intestinal ....... intestines ... come out <04578 03318> [thy bowels fall.]
chronic <02483> [the sickness.]
Lord <03068> [A.M. 3117. B.C. 887. the Lord.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
carried off <07617> [carried away. Heb. carried captive.]
sons ... wives ..... sons ........ Ahaziah <01121 0802> [his sons also.]
Ahaziah <03059> [Jehoahaz.]
[Ahaziah.]
[Azariah.]
After ...... Lord <0310 03068> [A.M. 3117-3119. B.C. 887-885. And after all.]
"His son Ahaziah Prorex, soon after."
incurable ... disease <02483 0369> [an incurable disease.]
make ... bonfire <06213 08316> [made no.]
thirty-two <07970 08147> [A.M. 3119. B.C. 885. Thirty and two.]
regretted <02532> [without being desired. Heb. without desire.]
That is, without being regretted: no one wished him to live any longer. He was hated while he lived, and neglected when he died.
residents <03427> [the inhabitants.]
Ahaziah ........................ Ahaziah <0274> [Ahaziah.]
[Azariah.]
[Jehoahaz.]
killed <02026> [slain.]
twenty-two <0705 08147> [A.M. 3119, 3120. B.C. 885, 884. Forty and two.]
In the parallel passage, (on which see the Note) he is said to be only twenty-two; and this is doubtless the true reading, as it is supported here by several MSS. and Versions.
Athaliah <06271> [Athaliah.]
mother <0517> [his mother.]
advice <03289> [his counsellor.]
advice <03289> [they were his.]
followed ..... joined <01980> [He walked.]
Joram <03212 03088> [went with.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
returned <07725> [And he returned.]
received ...... Ramah <05221 07414> [which were given him. Heb. wherewith they wounded him.]
Azariah. Ahaziah, ['chzyhw, <\\See definition 0274\\>,] and Jehoahaz, [yhw'chz <\\See definition 03059\\>,] are essentially the same both in letters and sense, the word [yhw,] {yeho,} or [yh, <\\See definition 03050\\>,] {yah,} being merely transposed: but Azariah, [`zryhw, <\\See definition 05838\\>,] seems to have been a distinct name by which he was known.
[Ahaziah.]
[Jehoahaz. to see Jehoram.]
downfall <08395> [destruction. Heb. treading down.]
God <0430> [was of God.]
out <03318> [he went out.]
Lord ... commissioned <03068 04886> [the Lord had.]
Jehu <03058> [when Jehu.]
looked ... Ahaziah .............................................. Ahaziah's <0274 01245> [he sought Ahaziah.]
The account in the parallel passage is somewhat different. "The current of the story at large is this," says Dr. Lightfoot: "Jehu slayeth Joram in the field of Jezreel, as Ahaziah and Joram were together: Ahaziah seeing this, flies, and gets into Samaria, and hides himself there. Jehu marches to Jezreel, and makes Jezebel dogs' meat: from thence sends to Samaria for the heads of Ahab's children and posterity; which are brought him by night, and shewed to the people in the morning. Then he marches to Samaria, and, by the way, slayeth forty-two of Ahab's kinsmen, and findeth Jehonadab, the father of the Rechabites. Coming into Samaria, he maketh search for Ahaziah: they find him hid, bring him to Jehu, and he commands to carry him towards Gur, by Ibleam, and there to slay him. They do so: smite him in his chariot, and his charioteer driveth away to Megiddo before he dies." "2 Ki 9:27, at Megiddo, in the kingdom of Samaria."
Samaria <08111> [in Samaria.]
reasoned <0559> [Because.]
son ... Jehoshaphat <03092 01121> [the son of Jehoshaphat.]
family <01004> [the house.]
Athaliah <06271> [Athaliah.]
Jehoshabeath ........................................... Jehoshabeath <03090> [Jehoshabeath.]
room <02315> [bedchamber.]
Jehoiada <03077> [Jehoiada.]
executed ......................................... execute <04191> [she slew him not.]
hiding .... temple <01004 02244> [A.M. 3120-3126. B.C. 884-878. hid in the house.]
Athaliah <06271> [Athaliah.]
