TSK - 2 CHRONICLES 25

  1  Amaziah begins to reign well.
 3  He executes justice on the traitors.
 5  Having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites, at
    the word of a prophet dismisses them.
11  He overthrows the Edomites.
13  The Israelites, discontented with their dismission, spoil
    as they return home.
14  Amaziah, proud of his victory, serves the gods of Edom, and
    despises the admonitions of the prophet.
17  He provokes Joash to his overthrow.
25  His reign.
27  He is slain by conspiracy.


VERSE 1
- twenty and five.
   * 2Ki 14:1-3


VERSE 2 
 - but not.
   * :14; 24:2; 26:4 1Sa 16:7 2Ki 14:4 Ps 78:37 Isa 29:13 Ho 10:2
   * Ac 8:21 Jas 8 1:8; 4:8


VERSE 3 
 - A.M. 3166.  B.C. 838.  Now it came.
   * 2Ki 14:5-22
- established to him.  Heb. confirmed upon him.  he slew.
   * 2Ch 24:25,26 Ge 9:5,6 Ex 21:14 Nu 35:31-33
  No doubt those wicked men, Jozachar and Jehozabad, who
  murdered his father, had considerable influence; and therefore
  he found it dangerous to bring them to justice, till he was
  assured of the loyalty of his other officers: when this was
  clear, he called them to an account, and justly put them to
  death for treason and murder; for, if even these conspirators
  against Joash intended to avenge upon him the death of
  Zechariah, they acted without a commission from that God "to
  whom vengeance belongeth."


VERSE 4 
 - as it is written.
   * De 24:16 2Ki 14:5,6 Jer 31:29,30 Eze 18:4,20


VERSE 5 
 - A.M. 3177.  B.C. 827.  captains over thousands.
   * Ex 18:25 1Sa 8:12 1Ch 13:1; 27:1
- from twenty.
   * Nu 1:3
- three.
   * 2Ch 11:1; 14:8; 17:14-18


VERSE 6 
 - might men of valour.
   * 2Ch 13:3; 17:13 Jud 6:12
- an hundred talents of silver.
  Estimating the shekel at 2s. 6d., and the talent, being 3,000
  shekels, (see Ex 38:25, 26,) at 375œ., one hundred talents
  would amount to 37,500œ.; which, divided among 100,000 men,
  quotes only 7s. 6d.; hence we may suppose, that this was only
  an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched
  by the plunder of the Edomites.


VERSE 7 
 - a man of God.
   * 2Sa 12:1 1Ki 13:1 1Ti 6:11 2Ti 3:17
- for the Lord.
   * 2Ch 13:12; 19:2 1Ki 12:28 Isa 28:1-3 Ho 5:13-15; 9:13


VERSE 8 
 - be strong.
   * 2Ch 18:14 Ec 11:9 Isa 8:9,10 Joe 3:9-14 Mt 26:45
- God hath power.
   * 2Ch 14:11; 20:6 Jud 7:7 1Sa 14:6 Job 5:18; 9:13 Ps 20:7; 33:16-10
   * Ps 62:11 Ec 9:11
- army.  Heb. band.
   * :13
- The Lord.
   * 2Ch 1:12 De 8:18 Ps 24:1 Pr 10:22 Hag 2:8 Lu 18:29,30 Php 4:19


VERSE 9 
 - army.  Heb. band.
   * :10,13 2Ki 6:23
- The Lord.
   * 2Ch 1:12 Ge 45:20 De 8:18 Ps 24:1 Pr 10:22 Hag 2:8 Lu 18:29,30
   * Eph 3:20 Php 3:8; 4:19


VERSE 10 
 - Amaziah.
   * 1Ki 12:24
- home.  Heb. to their place.  great anger.  Heb. heat of
  anger.
   * 2Sa 19:43 Pr 29:22


VERSE 11 
 - valley.
   * 2Sa 8:13 2Ki 14:7 Ps 60:1 *title


VERSE 12 
 - And other ten thousand.
  No intimation is given on what account, or on what
  provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of
  war was adopted.  The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to
  have been reciprocal and deeply malignant.  The victorious
  king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a
  traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on
  this judgment.  But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and
  could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and
  provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever
  they had it in their power.

- cast them.
   * 2Sa 12:31 1Ch 20:3
- broken in pieces.
   * 2Ch 20:10; 21:8-10


VERSE 13 
 - soldiers of the army.  Heb. sons of the band.
   * :9
- fell upon the cities.
  These Israelites seem to have returned home, when discharged
  by Amaziah, whose powerful army deterred them from attempting
  revenge at that time; but when he was engaged in war with the
  Edomites, they marched from Samaria, and plundered all the
  cities till they came to Beth-horon, where they slew 3,000 of
  the inhabitants.

- Samaria.
   * 1Ki 16:24,29
- Beth-horon.
   * 2Ch 8:5 1Ki 9:17


VERSE 14 
 - he brought.
   * 2Ch 28:23 Isa 44:19
- his gods.
   * Ex 20:3-5 De 7:5,25 2Sa 5:21


VERSE 15 
 - a prophet.
   * :7; 16:7-9; 19:2; 20:37 2Sa 12:1-6
- Why hast thou sought.
   * 2Ch 24:20 Jud 2:2 Jer 2:5
- the gods.
   * Ps 96:5
- which could.
   * :11,12 Ps 115:4-8 Isa 44:9,10; 46:1,2 Jer 10:7 1Co 8:4; 10:20


VERSE 16 
 - Art thou made.
   * 2Ch 16:10; 18:25; 24:21 Am 7:10-13 Mt 21:23
- forbear.
   * Pr 9:7,8 Isa 30:10,11 Jer 29:26 2Ti 4:3 Re 11:10
- determined.  Heb. counselled.
   * 2Ch 18:20,21 Ex 9:16 De 2:30 1Sa 2:25 Isa 46:10 Ac 4:28 Ro 9:22
   * Eph 1:11


VERSE 17 
 - A.M. 3178.  B.C. 826.  Amaziah.
   * :13 2Ki 14:8-14
- let us see.
   * 2Sa 2:14 Pr 20:3


VERSE 18 
 - thistle.  or, furze-bush, or thorn.
   * Jud 9:8-15 1Ki 4:33
- a wild beast.  Heb. a beast of the field.
   * Ps 80:13


VERSE 19 
 - heart.
   * 2Ch 26:16; 32:25 De 8:14 Pr 13:10; 16:18; 28:25 Da 5:20-23 Hab 2:4
   * Jas 4:6 1Pe 5:5
- to boast.
   * Jer 9:23 1Co 1:29
- why shouldest.
   * 2Ch 35:21 Pr 18:6; 20:3; 26:17 Lu 14:31


VERSE 20 
 - it came of God.
   * :16; 22:7 1Ki 12:15 Ps 81:11,12 Ac 28:25-27 2Th 2:9-11
   * 1Pe 2:8
- sought.
   * :14


VERSE 21 
 - they saw one another.
  That is, "they fought against each other."  To face an enemy,
  or to face one another, is still a common expression.  The
  reason of this war was evidently the injury the army of Joash
  had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah.  The ravages
  committed by them were totally unprovoked, base, and cowardly:
  they fell upon women, old men, and children, and butchered
  them in cold blood, when all the effective men were gone with
  their king against the Edomites.  The quarrel of Amaziah were
  certainly just, yet he was put to the rout:  he fell, and
  Judah with him, as Joash had said; and the reason was, because
  "it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hands of
  their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom."
  This was the reason why the Israelites triumphed.

   * :17
- Beth-shemesh.
   * Jos 21:16 1Sa 6:9,19,20


VERSE 22 
 - put to the worse.  Heb. smitten.
   * 2Ch 28:5,6
- fled.
   * 1Sa 4:10 1Ki 22:36


VERSE 23 
 - took Amaziah.
   * 2Ch 33:11; 36:6,10 Pr 16:18; 29:23 Da 4:37 Ob 1:3 Lu 14:11
- Jehoahaz.
   * 2Ch 21:17; 22:1
- Ahaziah.
   * 2Ch 22:6
- Azariah.  gate of Ephraim.
   * Ne 8:16; 12:39
- corner gate.  Heb. the gate of it that looketh.
   * 2Ch 26:9 Jer 31:38


VERSE 24 
 - all the gold.
   * 2Ch 12:9 2Ki 14:14
- the hostages also.
  It is probable that these hostages were given in order that
  Amaziah might regain his liberty.


VERSE 25 
 - A.M. 3179-3194.  B.C. 825-810.  Joash.
   * 2Ki 14:17-22
- Jehoash.


VERSE 26 
 - rest of the acts.
   * 2Ch 20:34 2Ki 14:15


VERSE 27 
 - A.M. 3194.  B.C. 810.  after the time.
   * 2Ch 15:2
- following.  Heb. after.  made.  Heb. conspired.
   * 2Ch 24:25 2Ki 14:19
- Lachish.
   * Jos 10:31


VERSE 28 
 - the city of Judah.  that is, the city of David, as it is.
   * 2Ki 14:20



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