The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles

372

xx. 1-30, peculiar to Chronicles.

373

So R.V. marg., with the LXX. The Targum has “Edomites,” the A.V. is not justified by the Hebrew, and the R.V. does not make sense.

374

Cf. 1 Chron. iv. 41, R.V.; and 2 Chron. xxvi. 7.

375

One Hebrew manuscript is quoted as having this reading. A.R.V., with the ordinary Masoretic text, have “Syria”; but it is simply absurd to suppose that a multitude from beyond the sea from Syria would first make their appearance on the western shore of the Dead Sea.

376

2 Chron. iv. 9.

377

Ver. 9; cf. 2 Chron. vi. 28, and the whole paragraph (vv. 22-30) of which our verse is a brief abstract.

378

Not Ziz, as A.R.V.

379

הדרת קדש, literally, as A.R.V., “beauty of holiness”; i. e., sacred robes. Translate with R.V. marg. “praise in the beauty of holiness,” not, as A.R.V., “praise the beauty of holiness.”

380

Exod. xiv. 30.

381

With R.V. marg.

382

The identification of the valley of Berachah with the valley of Jehoshaphat, close to Jerusalem and mentioned by Josephus, is a mere theory, quite at variance with the topographical evidence.

383

Kings xxii. 48, 49.

384

2 Chron. xxiv. 24, peculiar to Chronicles.

385

Psalm xx. 7.

386

1 Macc. ii. 35-38.

387

xxi. 2-4, peculiar to Chronicles.

388

Vv. 5-10; cf. 2 Kings viii. 17-22.

389

xxi. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles.

390

So R.V. marg., with LXX. and Vulgate A.R.V. have “mountains,” with Masoretic text.

391

Jer. xxix.; xxxvi.

392

Green's Shorter History, p. 404.

393

xxii. 1b, peculiar to Chronicles.

394

The Hebrew original of the A.R.V., “departed without being desired,” is as obscure as the English of our versions. The most probable translation is, “He behaved so as to please no one.” The A.R.V. apparently mean that no one regretted his death.

395

We need not discuss in detail the question of Ahaziah's age at his accession. The age of forty-two, given in 2 Chron. xxii. 2, is simply impossible, seeing that his father was only forty years old when he died. The Peshito and Arabic versions have followed 2 Kings viii. 26, and altered forty-two to twenty-two; and the LXX. reads twenty years. But twenty-two years still presents difficulties. According to this reading, Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, was born when his father was only eighteen, and Jehoram having had several sons before the age of eighteen, had none afterwards.

396

xiii. 7a, peculiar to Chronicles.