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**Amaziah.** Compare [2 Kings 14:1-3](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/1-3) . Complementary to Kings (see App-56 ); verses: [2 Chronicles 25:5-10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/25/5-10) and verses: [2 Chronicles 25:13-16](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/25/13-16) are additional.

**established** = confirmed.
**killed the king** ([2 Chronicles 24:25](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/25) , [2 Chronicles 24:26](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/26) ).

**as it is written.** Compare [Deuteronomy 24:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/16) .
**in the law in the book of Moses.** See App-47 .
**children** = sons.
**sin.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 .

**a man of God.** See App-49 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**let not.** For similar protests Compare [2 Chronicles 19:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/2) ; [2 Chronicles 20:37](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/20/37) .
**army** = host.
**Israel.** These were mercenaries gathered out of the ten tribes, to be used against Edom ([2 Chronicles 25:6](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/25/6) ).
**not with.** This is the measure by which our alliances of all kinds should be tried.
**all the children of Ephraim** = any of the sons of Ephraim. Of these were the kings of Israel.
**Ephraim.** Put here for the whole northern kingdom.

**be strong.** Figure of speech *Eironeia.* App-6 .

**army** = troop.

**valley of salt.** South of the Dead Sea.
**the children of Seir:** i.e. the Edomites.

**them:** i.e. men, not villages.

**set them up.** For a similar action See [2 Chronicles 28:23](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/28/23) .

**sent unto him a prophet.** When He might have sent a sore judgment.
**deliver** = rescue.

**Art thou made of, &c.** = Have we given thee to be of.
**of the king's counsel** = for counsellor to the king.
**determined** = counselled.

**advice** = counsel, as in [2 Chronicles 25:16](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/25/16) . He took man's counsel, but not God's.
**see** = look. Idiom for desire to fight.

**thistle** = thorn. Compare [2 Kings 14:9](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/9) .

**saw.** See note on "see" ([2 Chronicles 25:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/25/17) )

**Obed-edom.** He and his family were the Temple treasurers ([1 Chronicles 26:15](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/26/15) ).
**hostages.** Hebrew "sons of securities".

**are they not . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .

**made a conspiracy** = conspired a great conspiracy. Figure of speech *Polyptoton* .

**the city of Judah** = Jerusalem. The only occurrence of the expression. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac and Vulgate, read "the city of David".

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