verse 25. 12 Book of the chronicles. See notes on 1 Kings xiv. 19. Bp. Patrick.-10 A difficulty seems to arise by comparing this verse with the first, where it is said Jehoahaz king of Israel Ged.—13 Joash slept with his forefathers, began to reign in the twenty-third year of and was buried at Samaria, among the kings Joash king of Judah, and reigned seventeen of Israel: and his son Jeroboam sat upon years from whence it follows, that Jehpash his throne, and reigned in his stead. began to reign not in the thirty-seventh, but in the thirty-ninth or fortieth year of Joash The words in italic are partly in the king of Judah. But this only shows the Syriac and Arabic versions: and partly truth of what I said upon ver. 5, that he supplied from Chronicles xiv. 15. See the reigned with his father three years; after place. God was so gracious as to raise up a deliverer to them, who was this son of his, by whom peace was restored to them. This we note in the margin, he reigned in concert with his father (xiv. 1). Ver. 14. Au. Ver. The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. See notes on ii. 12. Ver. 20. Bp. Horsley. In the thirty and seventh; N N N Read, with the Aldine LXX, thirty and ninth. Compare chap. xiii. 1, and xii. 1, Ged., Booth. Any of the sins. Dathe.- pro w, uti v. 2 aliasque semper et hoc etiam loco in sex codicibus Kennicotti legitur, error scribarum est ex sequenti ortus. Pro legendum videtur . Sic codex Kennicotti 84, sed correctus, et veteres omnes [so Houb.]. καὶ μονόζωνοι Μωάβ ἦλθον ἐν τῇ γῇ, ἐλθόντος τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. Au. Ver.-20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the Dathe. Anno sequenti. Pro legendum fortasse i vel Sic Chaldæus in adventu anni. Vulg.: in ipso anno, et sic quoque Syrus. Legerunt igitur. Kennicottus observat, in cod. 1, esse erasum. Maurer. ww] Locus difficilioris explicationis, quem Ewaldus Gr. crit. p. 528, ita expedivit: venire solebant in terram quotannis, propr. "sie pflegten zu hommen ein Kommen ( inf.) des Jahrs, Au. Ver.-12 And the rest of the acts of ein jährliches Kommen," nescio an non auJoash, all that he did, and his might where-dacius. Fortasse verti potest sine ulla mu Ver. 12, 13. καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῶν θαπτόντων τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ, ἰδοὺ, εἶδον τὸν μονόζωνον, καὶ ἔῤῥιψαν τὸν ἄνδρα ἐν τῷ τάφῳ Ελισαιέ· καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ἥψατο τῶν ὀστέων Ελισαιέ, καὶ ἔζησε καὶ ἀνέστη ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ. Au. Ver.-21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down [Heb., went down], and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. As they were burying. Pool. As they were burying, or, were about to bury, as that particle is oft used in the Hebrew tongue. Ged., Booth.-As some Israelites were burying. A band. Ged., Booth. The horde of Moabites. son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. Dr. A. Clarke.-In the second year of Joash.] This second year should be understood as referring to the time when his father Jehoahaz associated him with himself in the kingdom: for he reigned two years with his father; so this second year of Joash is the first of his absolute and independent government.-See Calmet. מלה קרי Houb.—21 Homines, qui mortuum sepe-vonny liebant, ut conspexerunt latrones, mortuum conjecerunt in sepulcrum Elisæi, et abierunt.ng Mortuus verò, ut ossa Elizæi tetigit, &c. 21 rap on, illis sepelientibus. Non dictum est anteà de illis, qui mortuum sepeαὐτὸς ἐπάταξε τὴν Εδωμ ἐν γεμελὲδ δέκα lirent. Nec pronomen, de hominibus, xiλuádas, kaì ovvéλaße Tηy Téтрav év Tậ TOin genere usurpatur; ut credam aliquid λέμῳ, καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς Ιεθοὴλ ἕως deesse, ubi narrabatur, homines quosdam eò venisse, ut hominem sepelirent. Nos, homines, ut lacunam aliquo modo expleamus. .7, et abiit. Liquet hoc non dici de homine mortuo; ut perspicuum sit legendum, et abierunt, postquàm mortuum in sepulcrum Elisæi projecissent. Au. Ver.-7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah [or, the rock] by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. Bp. Patrick. And took Selah by war.] The metropolis of Arabia Petræ : which took its name from hence; for Selah is the [וַיֵּלֶךְ וַיִּגַּע הָאִישׁ בְּעַצְמוֹת אֱלִישָׁע .Maurer Pro Hitzigius Begriff p. 127, legi jubet 3. Noli obtemperare. Pingitur illo, quod etiam de rebus inanimatis dici notissima res est, pingitur, inquam, corpus mortui in sepulcrum leniter decurrens, ita quidem, ut tuis oculis rem intueri tibi videaris. VOL. II. same with the word Petra, a rock; upon which the city stood. From this rock he seems to have thrown down the ten thousand whom he took alive, and broke in pieces, as is said in the forenamed place, 2 Chron. XXV. 12. Hagar signifies the same, as 6 D Bochartus observes, by which name the] Ver. 10. הַכֹּה הִכִּיתָ אֶת־אֱדוֹם וּנְשָׂאֲךְ לִבֶּךָ Arabians called it, from the rocky mountain which hung over this place, which St. Paul calls by the Arabic name, Hagar. Joktheel.] Which name imports "obedience of God, or to God: because, having taken it, he settled, as some imagine, the laws and statutes of Moses in this place; or rather, he acknowledged, by giving it this name, that the possession of this place, was a reward of his obedience to the man of God, who required him to dismiss all the forces he had hired of the Israelites (2 Chron. xxv. 10). Pool.-Joktheel, which signifies the obedience of God, i. e., given him by God as a reward of his obedience to God's message by the prophet, 2 Chron. xxv. 8, 9. Gesen.- (subdued of God, for , בגיא מלח,melius :ה sublato, מלח non τύπτων ἐπάταξας τὴν Ιδουμαίαν, καὶ ἐπρέ σε καρδία σου, ἐνδοξάσθητι καθήμενος ἐν τῷ oxą σov, k.t.λ. Au. Ver.-10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home [Heb., at thy house]: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? Thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this. Bp. Horsley.-For 127, read, as in the parallel place, 2 Chron. xxv. 19, NY : "thine heart hath lifted thee up to boast; but tarry at home," &c. , ונפלת Melius Dathe, Ged., Booth.—But tarry. That thou shouldest fall. Houb.-, et cadas. neglecto, quod excidit culpâ Librariorum. sine, Codex Orat. 56. Cæteri Codices Duo Codices Orat. habent 2, plenè. Ex tollendum circulo demonstrant. quo colligitur, Masoretas, qui hunc locum & Codices adiisse, sed non plures, eos autem Ver. 13. obwa? ; וַיָּבֹאוּ יְרְוּשָׁלַם וַיִּפְרֹץ בְּחוֹמַת iis annumerant, in quibus deficiat, quosdam יְרְוּשָׁלַם בְּשַׁעַר אֶפְרַיִם עַד־שַׁעַר הַפְּנָה -deteriores, quod stepe accidit Judaeis Maso אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת אַמָּה : ויבא קרי retis. Ita ut ex eorum animadversionibus nihil certum haberi possit de Codicum, qui tunc extabant, statu generali, quod et declaravimus in Prolegomenis nostris ad Pentateuchum. Habent etiam Plantin. et Munst. Editiones. Ver. 9. καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ καθεῖλεν ἐν τῷ τείχει Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν τῇ πύλῃ Ἐφραὶμ ἕως πυλης τῆς γωνίας τετρακοσίους πήχεις. Au. Ver.-13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. Houb.-13 N, et venerunt. Masora in — 'O űkav ó év tậ Aißávæ, k.t.λ. Au. Ver.-9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to", et venit. Meliùs, et deduxit eum wife and there passed by a wild beast that (Amasiam) ut legit Vulgatus... v, was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. porta. Meliùs Codices Orient. von à portâ, ut observat Lud. Cappellus; ita Syrus, Gesen.- m. 1. a thorn, thorn-bush,. Respondet id, à portâ, illî, usque ad Job xxxi. 40; Prov. xxvi. 9; 2 K. xiv. 9. portam, quod sequitur. Plur. Din Cant. ii. 2, and with Vav moveable, 1 Sam. xiii. 6; thorn-bushes, thickets. It seems to be from an obsol. root which see. In the kindred languages καὶ ἔλαβε πᾶς ὁ λαὸς Ιούδα τὸν ̓Αζαρίαν, refuse one's duty, Conj. III., to dispute, &c. Kaì avròs viòs ékkaideka étŵv, kaì èßariλevorav Metaph. 2 Kings xiv. 26 pm the αὐτὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ̓Αμεσσίου. Au. Ver.-21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah [ch. x. 15, 13; and 2 Chron. xxvi. 1, he is called Uzziah], which was sixteen years old and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. Azariah. affliction of Israel was very perverse, i. e., stubborn, incurable. The ancient versions render it bitter; either reading, adj. or assigning this sense to the verb p. Houb.-26 ND MD: Syrus, 2007, quòd erat multùm acerba; videtur legere, " m, addito, quia erat amara. Ita in Ken., Gesen., Booth.-Uzziah. See notes cedere solet Hebr. oratio; exciderit ex on xv. 1. Ged.-Oziah. Sic. h. 1. 23, 27, vocatur, qui alias Plerique existimant, regem usum esse. Potuit tamen vicinitatem facile in valet, opinor, in nomina 2 Chr. xxi. 17; xxii. 6. ejus cum litterâ similitudine. Arias, mutabilem, ex puncto vocali male notato, quasi et xv. 1, 6, 8, radix esset, mutare. De eâ re vide, si y nominatur. juvat, Clericum in hunc locum. utroque nomine Dathe.-26 Nam rationem habebat calaper litterarum | mitatis Israëlitarum perquam acerbæ, a) qui mutari. Idem omnibus rebus privati defensorem non habeTet, bant. a) Pro legendum videtur m, ut sit a Houb.-21 et 22 ", et regem fecerunt., amarus fuit. Sic omnes veteres inCodices circulo animadvertunt, Codex Orat. tellexerunt, nisi malis explicare ex signi53,, cum notâ vocis Hiphil. Sic ficatione verbi primaria, quam Schulsæpe illud Hiphil in Codicibus plenè, ubi tensius ei tribuit: strinxit, strigillavit, quæ Impressa deficienter. Sic versu 22, quatuor transfertur ad plagam stringentem, urentem Codices, et recuperavit eam, ubi Im- et angentem. Au. Ver.-26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησε κύριος ἐξαλεῖψαι τὸ σπέρμα for there was not any shut up, nor any left, Ἰσραὴλ ὑποκάτωθεν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· καὶ ἔσωσεν nor any helper for Israel. That it was very bitter. No. 1, Arab. to stroke, to stripe, espec. with a whip, to lash, as ; or the skin with a razor, whence i razor. See Schultens ad Harir. Cons. I. p. 24. De defect. ling. Hebr. p. 117. -Kindred is to rub, to rub over, etc.Hence 2 to be perverse, refractory, to rebel; pp. to resist, to repel, by striking and fighting with the hands and feet. Arab. مری αὐτοὺς. κ.τ.λ. Au Ver.-27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. And the Lord said not, &c. Ged., Booth.-27 So Jehovah said that he would not blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; and he saved them, &c. Houb.-Propterea noluit, &c. Dathe.-27 Sed cum nollet eos delere, per to Jerobeamum, &c. καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ἱεροβοὰμ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐποίησε, καὶ αἱ δυναστείαι αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἐπολέμησε, καὶ ὅσα ἐπέστρεψε τὴν Δαμασκὸν καὶ τὴν Αἰμὰθ τῷ Ἰούδα ἐν Ἰσραὴλ, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν Ισραήλ. Au. Ver.-28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? ἐν ἔτει εἰκοστῷ καὶ ἑβδόμῳ τῷ Ἱεροβοάμ βασιλεῖ Ἰσραὴλ ἐβασιλευσεν ̓Αζαρίας υἱὸς ̓Αμεσσίου βασιλέως Ιούδα. Au. Ver.-1 In the twenty and seventh In the twenty and seventh year, &c. Pool.-In the twenty and seventh year. Quest. How can this be true, seeing Amaziah, the father of this Azariah, lived only till Which belonged to Judah, for Israel. the fifteenth year of Jeroboam's reign, Bp. Patrick.-For Israel.] Or rather, chap. xiv. 2, 23? Answ. This might be by Israel, as Abarbinel expounds it: by the either, first, Because Jeroboam was made hand or power of Israel they were restored. king by and reigned with his father eleven For when David fought against the Syrians, or twelve years, and afterwards reigned and brought them in subjection to him he alone; and so there is a twofold beginning put garrisons into Damascus and Hamath of his kingdom; by the former this was his (2 Sam. viii. 6, &c.). Which the Syrians twenty-seventh year, and by the latter his afterward recovered when they rebelled fifteenth year. Or, secondly, Because there against Judah: but Jeroboam possessed was an interreign [so Dr. Lightfoot] for himself of them again, and by his valour eleven or twelve years in the kingdom of made them as subject to Israel as they had been to Judah. Judah; either through the prevalency of that faction which cut off Amaziah the Houb.-28 Damascumque et Emath father, and kept the son out of his kingdom; Israeli restitueret, hæc scripta reperiuntur, or because Azariah was very young when &c. .Jude in Israel, ליהודה בישראל his father was slain, and the people were Omninò not agreed to restore him to his right till tollendum, quod non legebat Syrus, his sixteenth year, chap. xiv. 21; 2 Chron. qui etiam rectè, legehat, non autem xxvi. 1. And yet these eleven or twelve years of interreign, in which he was excluded, ואהפך דרמסוק והמת לאיסראיל,Ille enim sic : בישראל et restituit Damascum et Hemath Israeli, from the exercise of his regal office, some atque eum sequitur Arabs. Non erat illa think to be included in those fifty-two years urbs Hemath in Tribu Judæ, sed in Tribu which are. here ascribed to Azariah's reign, Nephthali. Vide Josue xix. 35. Vult ver. 2, which may well be doubted. Azariah, autem dandi casum verbum, called also Uzziah here, ver. 13, 30. Began restituit, quomodò idem verbum ver. 22, Azariah to reign ; solely and fully to exercise Non esset his regal power. .ליהודה sequitur dandi casus mirabile, Scribam, postquàm, pro, Dr. A. Clarke.-There are insuperable exarari. Houb.-1 Anno vigesimo septimo Jeroboam...(regnavit Aziarus). Hæc temporum ratio stare non potest cum antedictis. Dictum |