TSK - 2 CHRONICLES 27

  1  Jotham reigning well, prospers.
 5  He subdues the Ammonites.
 7  His reign and death; Ahaz succeeds him.


VERSE 1
- A.M. 3246-3262.  B.C. 753-742.  twenty and five.
   * 2Ki 15:32,33-38 1Ch 3:12 Isa 1:1 Ho 1:1 Mic 1:1 Mt 1:9
- Joatham.


VERSE 2 
 - And he did.
   * 2Ch 26:4 2Ki 15:34
- he entered not.
  He copied his father's conduct as far as it was pious and
  constitutional; and avoided his transgression.

   * 2Ch 26:16-21 Ps 120 119:120 Ac 5:13
- the people.
   * 2Ki 15:35


VERSE 3 
 - high gate.
   * 2Ch 23:20 Jer 20:2
- Ophel.  or, the tower.
  "The wall," says the Targum, "of the interior palace." {Ophel}
  appears to have been a tower, or fort, on the city wall, in
  which we read "the Nehthinim dwelt."

   * 2Ch 33:14 Ne 3:26,27


VERSE 4 
 - he built cities.
   * 2Ch 11:5-10; 14:7; 26:9,10
- the mountains.
   * Jos 14:12,13 Lu 1:39
- castles and towers.
  These castles and towers he doubtless built built for the
  protection of the country people against marauders.


VERSE 5 
 - the king of the Ammonites.
  We find here, that he brought the Ammonites under a heavy
  tribute for three years; but whether this was the effect of
  his prevailing against them, is not so evident.  Some think
  that they paid this tribute for three years, and then
  revolted; that, in consequence, he attacked them, and their
  utter subjection was the result.

   * 2Ch 20:1 Jud 11:4-33 2Sa 10:1-14 Jer 49:1-6
- ten thousand.
  Rather, "ten thousand {cors} (korim) of wheat."  The {cor} was
  same as the {homer,} and contained about 32 pecks 1 pint.

- So much.  Heb. This.


VERSE 6 
 - Jotham.
   * 2Ch 26:5
- prepared.  or, established.
   * 2Ch 19:3


VERSE 7 
 - Now the rest.
   * 2Ch 20:34; 26:22,23; 32:32,33
- A.M. 3262.  B.C. 742.  they are written.
  There is not so much found in the book of Kings, which we have
  now, as here:  in both places we have abridged accounts; the
  larger histories having been lost.


VERSE 8 
 - He was.
   * :1 2Ki 15:33


VERSE 9 
 - Jotham.
   * 2Ki 15:38



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