2 Chronicles 25:17-24
am 3178, bc 826 Amaziah 2Chr 25:13; 2Kgs 14:8-14 let us see 2Sam 2:14; Prov 20:3 thistle or, furze-bush, or thorn, Judg 9:8-15; 1Kgs 4:33 a wild beast Heb. a beast of the field, Ps 80:13 heart 2Chr 26:16, 2Chr 32:25; Deut 8:14; Prov 13:10, Prov 16:18, Prov 28:25; Dan 5:20-23; Hab 2:4; Jas 4:6; 1Pet 5:5 to boast Jer 9:23; 1Cor 1:29 why shouldest 2Chr 35:21; Prov 18:6, Prov 20:3, Prov 26:17; Luke 14:31 it came of God 2Chr 25:16, 2Chr 22:7; 1Kgs 12:15; Ps 81:11-12; Acts 28:25-27; 2Thess 2:9-11; 1Pet 2:8 sought 2Chr 25:14 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. 2Chr 25:17 Bethshemesh Josh 21:16; 1Sam 6:9, 1Sam 6:19-20 put to the worse Heb. smitten, 2Chr 28:5-6 fled 1Sam 4:10; 1Kgs 22:36 took Amaziah 2Chr 33:11, 2Chr 36:6, 2Chr 36:10; Prov 16:18, Prov 29:23; Dan 4:37; Obad 1:3; Luke 14:11 Jehoahaz 2Chr 21:17, 2Chr 22:1, Ahaziah, 2Chr 22:6, Azariah gate of Ephraim Neh 8:16, Neh 12:39 corner gate Heb. the gate of it that looketh, 2Chr 26:9; Jer 31:38 all the gold 2Chr 12:9; 2Kgs 14:14 the hostages also It is probable that these hostages were given in order that Amaziah might regain his liberty.
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