Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:15
Until thy bowels fall out - This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa. read more
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Adam Clarke
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:1-11
A life spent in undoing. For the quarter of a century Jehoshaphat spent all his individual power and devoted all the weight of his royal office to the work of establishing piety, justice, and (in consequence) real prosperity throughout his kingdom. And right well he succeeded. When he died he left Judah much purer, stronger, and richer than he found it. Then came his firstborn son in succession to him. And what came with him? What else but a baneful and lamentable undoing of all that he... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:1-20
A reign of unmitigated shame. To the career of Jehoshaphat of almost exemplary excellence, that of Jehoram, his son, forms a contrast most humiliating. Obviously it is not the least painful feature of this latter that it so inevitably forces into our memory the parental fault, which, if it were not the cause and very foundation of an eldest son s abandoned character and course of conduct, could not fail to have given opportunity for it, and could not fail to incur the responsibility before... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:2-11
The character of Jehoram. I. A DEGENERATE SON . 1. The advantages Jehoram possessed. 2 . The disadvantages under which he laboured. II. AN UNNATURAL BROTHER . 1 . The names of Jehoram ' s brothers. Six in number; they had excellent names. 2 . The ranks of Jehoram ' s brothers. Princes of the blood royal, they were well provided for and well placed by their father, whose crown fell to Jehoram as heir-apparent. Great gifts of silver, gold,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:12
A writing . The Hebrew is מִכְתָּב , noun, from verb כָתַב . This noun does not occur very frequently, but is found in the following passages, viz.: Exodus 32:16 ; Exodus 39:30 ; Deuteronomy 10:4 ; 2 Chronicles 35:4 ; 2 Chronicles 36:22 ; Ezra 1:1 ; Isaiah 38:8 . A note in Grove's interesting article, "Elijah", says that the word is almost identical with the Arabic word of the present day, while the ordinary Hebrew word for a "letter" is סֵפֶד oftener rendered "book."... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:12-15
The letter of Elijah. I. THE AUTHOR OF THE WRITING . Various suggestions. 1 . Elisha, who entered on the duties of his calling before the death of Jehoshaphat ( 2 Kings 3:11 ), and who accordingly would be the most likely party from whom should proceed such a communication as Jehoram received. In this case the name of Elijah must have been substituted in the text for that of Elisha (Kennicott, Jamieson). 2 . A later historian, "who describes the relation of Elijah... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:13
See note in previous verse on Jehoram's slaying of his brethren, and the conclusive proof this statement allows that Elijah's letter must have been subsequent to the death of Jehoshaphat. The better thin thyself probably points to the fact that they had not fallen into idolatrous practices. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:14
A great plague; Hebrew, מַגֵּפָה , Out of the twenty-six occurrences of this word, it is rendered (Authorized Version) twenty-three times by the word "plague," twice by the word "slaughter" ( 2 Samuel 17:9 ; 2 Samuel 18:7 ), and once "stroke" ( Ezekiel 24:16 ). It is not the word ( גֶגַע ) which about sixty times (chiefly in Leviticus)describes the physical plague, but both of the words are applied to the plagues, e.g. of Pharaoh, and to the suffering that came of any... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:14
Will the Lord smite - "The Word of the Lord will send a great mortality." - Targum. read more