2 Chronicles 6:5
day <03117> [Since the day.]
live <08034> [my name.]
chosen ..................... choose <0977> [neither chose.]
The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.
2 Chronicles 6:34
people <05971> [thy people.]
toward <01870> [by the way.]
direct <06419> [they pray.]
toward <01870> [toward.]
2 Chronicles 7:22
abandoned <05800> [Because they forsook.]
brought <0935> [therefore.]
2 Chronicles 15:2
Asa ........ Asa <06440 0609> [to meet Asa. Heb. before Asa. Hear ye me.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
seek ..... respond <01875 04672> [if ye seek him.]
respond ....... reject ..... reject <05800> [if ye forsake.]
2 Chronicles 16:1
thirty-sixth <08337> [A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. In the six.]
See Note on 1 Ki 15:32. "From the rending of the ten tribes from Judah, over which Asa was now king."
<01115> [to the intent.]
2 Chronicles 18:33
shot <04900> [a certain man.]
random <08537> [at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.]
plates <01694> [between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between the breast plate.]
The {shiryon,} in Syriac, {sheryono,} seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound.
wounded <02470> [wounded. Heb. made sick.]
2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu <03058> [And Jehu.]
Hanani <02607> [Hanani.]
prophet <02374> [the seer.]
help <05826> [Shouldest.]
oppose ... Lord ........ Lord <03068 08130> [hate the Lord.]
angry <07110> [is wrath.]
2 Chronicles 20:17
fight <03898> [not need.]
stand ... watch <05975 07200> [stand ye still.]
Lord .................... Lord <03068> [for the Lord.]
2 Chronicles 22:7
downfall <08395> [destruction. Heb. treading down.]
God <0430> [was of God.]
out <03318> [he went out.]
Lord ... commissioned <03068 04886> [the Lord had.]
2 Chronicles 23:8
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
divisions <04256> [the courses.]
2 Chronicles 24:5
assembled ................. collect ......... Israel <03478 06908> [gather of all Israel.]
Levites .................................... Levites <03881> [Howbeit.]
2 Chronicles 25:5
commanders ...... thousand .... commanders ........................ 300,000 <0505 08269> [A.M. 3177. B.C. 827. captains over thousands.]
twenty <06242> [from twenty.]
300,000 <07969> [three.]
2 Chronicles 26:11
organized <03318> [went out.]
2 Chronicles 26:15
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 26:18
confronted ... Uzziah ............ Uzziah <05818 05975> [withstood Uzziah.]
Uzziah ............ Uzziah <05818> [not unto thee.]
priests <03548> [to the priests.]
Leave <03318> [go out.]
honor <03519> [neither shall it be.]
2 Chronicles 26:20
[hated also.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
2 Chronicles 28:9
went <03318> [he went out.]
Lord ...................... Lord <03068> [Behold.]
To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment: it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing; and it is no wonder that it produced the effect here described. That there was much humanity, as well as firmness, in the heads of the children of Ephraim, who joined with the prophet of Jehovah on this occasion, their subsequent conduct, as detailed in the fifteenth verse, sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had taken, and with clothed, shod, fed, and anointed these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho! We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows from the foundation of the world. The compliance also of the whole army, in leaving both the captives and spoil to the disposal of the princes, was really wonderful, and perhaps unparalleled in history. Both the princes and army are worthy to be held up to the admiration and imitation of mankind.
Lord ...................... Lord God <0430 03068> [because the Lord God.]
taken notice <05060> [reacheth.]
2 Chronicles 35:20
temple <01004> [A.M. 3394. B.C. 610. temple. Heb. house. Necho.]
Pharaoh, the lame, says the Targumist.
[Pharaoh-necho.]
[Charchemish.]
