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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:17 - 25:17
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The war with Joash, king of Israel. - Instead of following the counsel of the prophet, Amaziah consulted (sc., with his public officials or courtiers), and challenged King Joash of Israel to war. The challenge, and the war which followed, are also narrated in 2Ki 14:8-14 in agreement with our account, and have been already commented upon at that place, where we have also considered the occasion of this war, so fatal to Amaziah and the kingdom of Judah, on account of which has been handed down to us only in the supplementary narrative of the Chronicle. לְךָ in 2Ch 25:17 for לְכָה, come, as in Num 23:13 and Jdg 19:13. - In 2Ch 25:20 the chronicler explains Amaziah's refusal to hear the warning of Joash before the war with him, by a reference to the divine determination: “For it (came) of God (that Amaziah still went to war), that He might deliver them (the men of Judah) into the hand, because they had sought the gods of Edom.” בְּיַד נָתַן, to give into the power of the enemy. - In 2Ch 25:23, הַפֹּונֶה שַׁעַר is a manifest error for הַפִּנָּה (2Ki 14:13). Were הַפֹּונֶה, the gate that turns itself, faces (in some direction), correct, the direction would have to be given towards which it turned, e.g., Eze 8:3. - וגו וְכָל־הַזָּהָב, 2Ch 25:24, still depends upon תָּפַשׂ, 2Ch 25:23 : and (took away) all the gold, etc. In 2Ki 14:14, וְלָקַח is supplied.