2 Chronicles 26:14-15
slingstones <07050> [slings to cast stone. Heb. stones of slings.]
carefully <02803> [cunning men.]
shoot <03384 02671> [to shoot arrows.]
These engines, it is probable, bore some resemblance to the {balist‘} and {catapult‘} of the Romans, which were employed for throwing stones and arrows, and were in reality the mortars and carcasses of antiquity. With respect to the towers which Uzziah built in the wilderness, (ver. 10,) Mr. Harmer appears to have given a truer view of the subject than commentators in general have done, who suppose that they were conveniences made only for sheltering the shepherds from bad weather, or to defend them from incursions of enemies; for they might rather be designed to keep the nations that pastured there in awe, and also to induce them quietly to pay the tribute to which the 8th verse seems to refer. William of Tyre describes a country not far from the Euphrates as inhabited by Syrian and Armenian Christians, who fed great flocks and herds there, but were kept in subjection to the Turks, in consequence of their living among them in strong places.
<03318 07350> [spread far. Heb. went forth.]
2 Chronicles 32:5
energetically .............. fortified <02388> [he strengthened.]
broken <06555> [that was broken.]
wall ........ wall <02346 0312> [another wall.]
terrace <04407> [Millo.]
weapons <07973> [darts. or, swords, or weapons.]
2 Chronicles 32:2
intended ... attack <04421 06440> [he was purposed to fight. Heb. his face was to war.]
2 Chronicles 13:19
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.]
2 Chronicles 13:22
writings <04097> [story. or, commentary. Iddo.]
