--- title: "Bullinger" description: "after this: i.e. after Ahab" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/2-chronicles/20" --- **after this:** i.e. after Ahab's death ([2 Kings 3:5](../../../kjv/2-kings/3/5) ). **children** = sons. **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos,* App-6 . **himself** = his face. **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **to ask** = to seek. Supply "counsel" here. **stood.** On the platform provided for such purposes as this ([2 Kings 11:14](../../../kjv/2-kings/11/14) ; [2 Kings 23:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/3) ). **congregation** = assembly. Hebrew. *kahal.* See note on "multitude" ([Genesis 28:3](../../../kjv/genesis/28/3) ). **and.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "in". **the new court.** The court of the priests, built by Solomon ([2 Chronicles 4:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/9) ; [2 Chronicles 15:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/15/8) ). **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **art not . . . rulest not . . . is there not?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **heathen** = nations ([Daniel 4:34](../../../kjv/daniel/4/34) , [Daniel 4:35](../../../kjv/daniel/4/35) ). **in Thine hand.** The words of David were accessible to Jehoshaphat ([1 Chronicles 29:12](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/29/12) ). See App-47 . **so that none** = and there is none. **Abraham Thy friend.** Three times so called: here, [Isaiah 41:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/8) , quoted in [James 2:23](../../../kjv/james/2/23) . Compare Moses ([Exodus 33:11](../../../kjv/exodus/33/11) ). **evil.** Hebrew. *raa'.* App-44 . **sword.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for the execution done by it. Compare [1 Kings 8:37](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/37) . [1 Kings 6:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/28) . **Thy name** = Thy presence. **affliction** = distress. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "distresses". **mount Seir.** The Edomite Mehunim. See [2 Chronicles 20:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/20/1) . **wouldest not, &c.** Compare [Deuteronomy 2:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/9) . **wilt Thou not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **judge** = bring judgments. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for the judgments themselves. **company** = rout. **Jahaziel . . . Asaph.** Probably [Psalms 83](../../../kjv/psalms/83) written at that time. **Spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . **of: or from.** Genitive of Origin: i.e. spiritual power from Jehovah. **Be not afraid** = "Be not [ye] afraid". **cliff** = ascent. **brook** = valley. **stand ye still.** Compare [Exodus 14:13](../../../kjv/exodus/14/13) . **the beauty of holiness** = in His glorious sanctuary. See note on [1 Chronicles 16:29](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/16/29) . **Praise the LORD** = Praise Jehovah. App-4 . **mercy** = lovingkindness, or grace. **the LORD.** Some think the "Yod" (= J) was an abbreviation for "Judah". **ambushments** = liers in wait. The Targum interprets them of angelic powers. **the dead bodies.** Some codices, with five early printed editions and Vulgate, read "apparel". **stripped off** = raked together. **Berachah** = Blessing. **fear** = dread, as in [2 Chronicles 19:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/7) (not as in [2 Chronicles 19:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/9) ). Genitive of Character = a great dread. **Asa his father.** Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "his father Asa". **not taken away.** See note on [2 Chronicles 17:6](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/17/6) . **book** = words. **Jehu.** Compare [2 Chronicles 19:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/2) . **after this.** In the twentieth or twenty-first year of his reign. Compare [1 Kings 22:51](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/51) . See App-50 . "After" this wonderful deliverance. "After" the solemn warning of [2 Chronicles 19:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/2) . "After" his experience in [2 Chronicles 18:31](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/18/31) . **join himself.** This was the third alliance (Commercial). See note on [2 Chronicles 18:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/18/1) . Note the Figure of speech *Repetitio* ( App-6 ), by which great emphasis is laid on these words by their repetition in verses: [2 Chronicles 20:36](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/20/36) and [2 Chronicles 20:37](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/20/37) . **who did very wickedly.** This is added to show that the reason against such an alliance was just as strong with Ahaziah as with Ahab. **wickedly** = lawlessly. App-44 . **to make ships to go to Tarshish.** This was prior to the similar event recorded in [1 Kings 22:48](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/48) , [1 Kings 22:49](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/49) , where he made (himself) "Tarshish ships to go to Ophir". Ahaziah again sought to implicate Jehoshaphat. But he failed in the attempt, for we there read "Jehoshaphat would not" ( 2Ch 20:49 ). And the ships "did not go", for they were "broken" ( 2Ch 20:48 ). The marginal note in Authorized Version is neither correct nor necessary. **Eliezer.** Sent by Jehovah, just as Jehu had been sent ([2 Chronicles 19:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/2) ). **broken.** A *Homonym.* Hebrew. *paraz,* to break. Rightly so rendered here. 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