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**Michaiah.** Called also Maachah in [2 Chronicles 11:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/11/20) ; [1 Kings 15:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/2) . See note on [1 Chronicles 25:11](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/25/11) . Michaiah = Who is like Jehovah? This name used of her as the queen-mother; but she is called Maachah = oppression, when speaking of her idolatry ([2 Chronicles 15:16](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/15/16) ).
**Uriel of Gibeah.** Josephus ( *Antiquities* VIII. 10, 1) says he was the husband of Tamar the daughter of Absalom, and the mother of Michaiah. See above, [2 Chronicles 11:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/11/20) . [1 Kings 15:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/2) .

**men of.** Hebrew. *gibbor.* App-14 .
**four hundred . . . eight hundred.** Note the steady increase of Judah and the decrease of Israel: Rehoboam could assemble 180,000; Abijah (eighteen years later), 400,000; Asa (six years later), 580,000; Jehoshaphat (thirty-two years later), 1,160, 000. On the other hand, with Israel, Jeroboam could assemble 800,000, while Ahab's army was compared to "two little flocks of kids" ([1 Kings 20:27](../../../kjv/1-kings/20/27) ), which could not stand against the Syrians. This increase of Judah was caused by the constant emigration of Israelites from the ten tribes. See note on [1 Kings 12:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/17) .
**mighty men.** Hebrew. *gibbor.* App-14 .

**mount** = hill country: i.e. of Ephraim.

**Ought ye not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.*
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**even to him.** Israel's king must be of David's line.
**a covenant of salt.** See notes on [Leviticus 2:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/2/13) and [Numbers 18:19](../../../kjv/numbers/18/19) . This is the third of the three occurrences,

**rebelled.** Compare [1 Kings 11:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/26) .

**children** = sons.
**was.** Hebrew. *hayah =* became, or showed himself [to be young and weak].
**young.** Compare [2 Chronicles 10:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/10/8) ; [2 Chronicles 12:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/13) .

**the kingdom of the LORD.** Once pertaining to the whole nation ([1 Chronicles 28:5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/28/5) . [1 Chronicles 9:8](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/9/8) ), now confined to Judah.
**made you.** Compare [1 Kings 12:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/28) .

**Have ye not . . . ?** Compare [2 Chronicles 11:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/11/14) . Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**nations** = Peoples.
**seven rams.** In [Exodus 29:1](../../../kjv/exodus/29/1) and [Leviticus 8:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/8/2) only "two rams" appointed. But religion and ritual, being for the flesh, always add outward things while they diminish the spiritual.

**burn** = "burn [as incense]". Hebrew. *katar.* App-43 .
**candlestick** = lampstand.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.*
**sounding trumpets.** Compare [Numbers 10:9](../../../kjv/numbers/10/9) ; [Numbers 31:6](../../../kjv/numbers/31/6) .

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.*
**Ephrain.** Identified as "Ephraim" ([John 11:54](../../../kjv/john/11/54) ).

**he died.** Figure of speech *Hysterologia.* App-6 . Jeroboam outlived Abijah. See note on [1 Kings 14:20](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/20) .

**story.** Hebrew. *midrash = a,* historical commentary, having in view the moral instruction rather than the historic facts. Occurs only here and [2 Chronicles 24:27](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/27) .
**Iddo.** Compare [2 Chronicles 9:29](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/9/29) ; [2 Chronicles 12:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/15) .

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