2 Chronicles 10:1--13:22
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
[Roboam. Shechem.]
[Sichem.]
Israel <03478> [all.]
Jeroboam .................... Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
sent <07971> [they sent.]
father <01> [Thy father.]
hard <07185 07186> [grievous.]
return <07725> [Come again.]
consulted ....................... advise <03289> [took counsel.]
consulted .................... How .... advise <0349 03289> [What counsel.]
fair <02896> [If thou be kind.]
said ....... fair <02896 01696> [speak good.]
rejected <05800> [he forsook.]
young <03206> [the young men.]
It was a custom in different countries to educate with the heir to the throne, young noblemen of nearly the same age. This, as Calmet observes, answered two great and important ends: 1. It excited the prince to emulation; that he might, as far as possible, surpass in all manly exercises, and in all acts of prudence and virtue, those whom one day he was to surpass in the elevation and dignity of his station. 2. That he might acquire a correct knowledge of the disposition and views of those who were likely to be, under him, the highest officers of the state, and consequently know the better how to trust and employ them.
advise <03289> [What advice.]
Lessen <07043> [Ease.]
said .... Say ...................... say <0559> [Thus shalt.]
harsher <06995 05666> [My little finger.]
"My weakness," says the Targumist, "shall be stronger than the might of my father."
father .............. father <01> [my father.]
imposed ........ make ... even heavier <06006 03254> [put. Heb. laded. I will put.]
whips that really sting your flesh <06137> [scorpions.]
Return <07725> [Come.]
responded <06030> [answered.]
rejected <05800> [forsook.]
advice <06098> [the advice.]
father <01> [My father.]
king <04428> [the king.]
instigating <05252> [the cause.]
<03068> [that the Lord.]
Ahijah <0281> [Ahijah.]
portion <02506> [What portion.]
son <01121> [the son.]
David ...................... David <01732> [David.]
Israel .................................. Israel ............ Israel <03478> [So all Israel.]
Israelites <01121> [But as for.]
Hadoram <01913> [Hadoram.]
[Adoniram.]
[Adoram. stoned him.]
managed <0553> [made speed. Heb. strengthened himself.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
day <03117> [unto this day.]
Rehoboam ...................... Rehoboam <07346> [when Rehoboam.]
180,000 <03967> [an hundred.]
Shemaiah <08098> [to Shemaiah.]
prophet <0376> [the man.]
Israelites <03478> [to all Israel.]
brothers ........................ Jeroboam <0251 03379> [against.]
go .................. attack <07725> [return.]
caused <01697> [for this thing.]
obeyed <08085> [they obeyed.]
built <01129> [A.M. 3029-3032. B.C. 975-972. built.]
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
Bethlehem, called Bethlehem Judah (Jud 17:7,) to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in Zebulun, (Jos 19:15,) and also Ephratah, (i.e., fruitful,) and by the Arabs, Bait-el-lahm, is situated on a rising ground on the southern side of a deep and extensive valley, and reclining from E. to W. not quite six miles S. of Jerusalem.
Etam <05862> [Etam.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
Zur <01049> [Beth-zur.]
Soco <07755> [Shoco.]
[Socoh. Adullam.]
Gath <01661> [Gath.]
Mareshah <04762> [Mareshah.]
Ziph <02128> [Ziph.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
Zorah <06881> [Zorah.]
[Zoreah.]
[Ajalon. Hebron.]
fortified <02388> [he fortified.]
officers <05057> [captains.]
shields <06793> [he put shields.]
Judah <03063> [having Judah.]
supported ....... resided <03320 01366> [A.M. 3030. B.C. 974. resorted to him. Heb. presented themselves to him.]
pasturelands <04054> [suburbs.]
property <0272> [their possession.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
goat <08163> [for the devils.]
The word, {se‹rim} literally signifies hairy ones, or goats: see Note on Le 17:7.
calf <05695> [for the calves.]
Those ................. followed them <0310> [And after.]
<05414> [set.]
sacrifice <02076> [to sacrifice.]
supported <02388> [A.M. 3029-3032. B.C. 975-972. strengthened.]
three years ........... three years <07969 08141> [three years.]
daughter .......... daughter <01323> [A.M. 3029-3046. B.C. 975-958. daughter.]
Eliab was David's eldest brother; and more than eighty years had elapsed since David, at the age of thirty, began to reign: Abigail must therefore have been grand-daughter to Eliab; and this shows the latitude in which the words son and daughter are used in Scripture.
Eliab <0446> [Eliab.]
[Elihu.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
[Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Absalom.]
[Abishalom. Abijah.]
[Abijam.]
[Abia.]
wives ...... eighteen wives ....... twenty-eight <08083 0802> [eighteen wives.]
appointed Abijah <05975 029> [made Abijah.]
wisely <0995> [he dealt.]
placed ....... throughout <06555> [dispersed.]
fortified cities <05892 04694> [every fenced city.]
[many wives. Heb. a multitude of wives.]
Rehoboam's <07346> [A.M. 3032. B.C. 972. when Rehoboam.]
rejected <05800> [he forsook.]
Israel <03478> [all Israel.]
Shishak <07895> [A.M. 3034. B.C. 970. Shishak.]
unfaithful <04603> [because.]
1,200 <03967> [twelve hundred.]
innumerable number <04557> [without number.]
Libyans <03864> [Lubims.]
Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim (Ge 10:13,) were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia, (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Ac 2:10,) a district of Africa, adjoining to Egypt, and extending along the shore of the Mediterranean as far as the city of Cyrene.
Sukkites <05525> [the Sukkiims.]
The Sukkiim, (from {sachach,} "to cover,") are supposed to have been the Troglodites, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, a people of Egypt, on the west of the Red Sea, so called because they dwelt [en troglais,] in caves.
Cushites <03569> [Ethiopians.]
These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt.
[Cushim. Heb.]
fortified <04694> [the fenced.]
marched <0935> [came.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
rejected ...... rejected <05800 0637> [Ye have forsaken me.]
rejected ...... rejected ..... hand <05800 03027> [left you.]
humbled <03665> [humbled.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
destroy <07843> [therefore.]
soon <04592> [some. or, a little while.]
anger <02534> [and my wrath.]
subjects <05650> [Nevertheless.]
experience <03045> [that they may.]
Shishak <07895> [Shishak.]
took ............... took <03947> [took away.]
shields <04043> [the shields.]
bronze shields <04043 05178> [shields of brass.]
officers <08269> [the chief.]
humbled <03665> [when.]
Judah .... good things <01697 02896 03063> [also in Judah things went well. or, yet in Judah there were good things.]
Rehoboam ............... king <07346> [A.M. 3029-3046. B.C. 975-958. for Rehoboam.]
city <05892> [the city.]
<07760> [to put.]
Ammonite <05985> [an Ammonitess.]
determined <03559> [he prepared. Heb. he fixed.]
follow <01875> [to seek.]
start ... finish <07223 0314> [first and last.]
events ............. Annals <01697> [book. Heb. words. Shemaiah.]
Iddo <05714> [Iddo.]
<04421> [wars.]
passed away <07901> [slept.]
Abijah <029> [Abijah.]
[Abijam.]
[Abia.]
eighteenth <08083> [A.M. 3046-3049. B.C. 958-955. in the eighteenth. See on ch.]
Michaiah <04322> [Michaiah.]
[Maachah the daughter of Absalom.]
[Abishalom. Gibeah.]
[Gibeath.]
war <04421> [A.M. 3047. B.C. 957. And there was.]
launched ... attack <0631 04421> [set. Heb. bound together.]
400,000 ......... 800,000 <03967 0702> [four hundred.]
400,000 ......... 800,000 <03967 08083> [eight hundred.]
Zemaraim <06787> [Zemaraim.]
Zemaraim could not be, as some have supposed, the same as the hill of Samaria, [Sh“merown <\\See definition 08111\\>,] so called from Shemer, in the days of Omri; but was probably a hill on the confines of Ephraim, near Zemaraim, a city of Benjamin, near Bethel.
Listen .... Jeroboam <08085 03379> [Hear me.]
realize <03045> [Ought ye not.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
David <01732> [to David.]
formal agreement <04417 01285> [a covenant of salt.]
rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
Lawless ... men <0582 07386> [vain men.]
good-for-nothing .......... son <01121 01100> [the children of Belial.]
young man <05288> [young.]
resist <02388> [could not.]
<06440> [the kingdom.]
huge <01995 07227> [a great multitude.]
gold <02091> [with you golden.]
banished <05080> [cast out.]
priests ........... priests ....... do ................. priest <03548 06213> [made you priests.]
[consecrated himself. Heb. fill his hand.]
descendants ........................ young <01121> [young.]
But .......................................... gods <0430 03808> [no gods.]
Lord ................ Lord's <03068> [the Lord.]
We have not abandoned the Lord; and we still serve him according to His own law. But what Abijah urged concerning the state of religion in Judah was not strictly just; and, as spoken by him, it favoured ostentation. Abijah himself was but an indifferent character; and idolatry was evidently connived at in his days. Yet it was true, that the men of Judah had the priests, ordinances, and worship of Jehovah among them; that there were numbers of pious worshippers in the land; that theirs was the more righteous cause; that Jehovah was on their side as their Captain, while Israel fought against him; and that the presence of the priests with the sacred trumpets was a token of His presence and favour.
priests <03548> [the priests.]
offer <06999> [they burn.]
fragrant incense <07004 05561> [sweet incense.]
Bread <03899> [shewbread.]
lampstand <04501> [the candlestick.]
<08104> [we keep.]
God ............................. God <0430> [God.]
leader <07218> [for our captain.]
priests <03548> [his priests.]
fight .... Lord <03898 03068> [fight ye.]
win <06743> [ye shall not.]
ambush .................. ambushers <03993> [an ambushment.]
turned <06437> [looked back.]
cried out <06817> [cried.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
men .......... men <0376> [as the men.]
struck <05062 0430> [God smote.]
God handed ... over <05414 0430> [God delivered.]
500,000 <02568 03967> [five hundred.]
relied <08172> [relied.]
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.]
Jeroboam <03379> [did.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
died <04191> [he died.]
power <02388> [waxed.]
fourteen wives <0702 0802> [fourteen wives.]
fathered <03205> [begat.]
writings <04097> [story. or, commentary. Iddo.]
