Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:46
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열왕기상 22:41-49 Krv
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:47
In the time of Solomon, Hadad 1 Kings 11:14, according to the Septuagint, “reigned over Edom.” It appears by the present passage that the country had been again reduced either by Jehoshaphat, or by an earlier king, and was dependent on the kingdom of Judah, being governed by a “deputy” or viceroy, who, however, was allowed the royal title (compare 2 Kings 3:9, 2 Kings 3:12, 2 Kings 3:26). This government of dependencies by means of subject-kings was the all but universal practice in the East... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:48
The expression, “ships of Tharshish,” probably designates ships of a particular class, ships (i. e.) like those with which the Phoenicians used to trade to Tharshish (Tartessus, 1 Kings 10:22 note). Compare the use of “India-man” for a vessel of a certain class. Jehoshaphat’s fleet was constructed at Ezion-Gaber, on the Red Sea 2 Chronicles 20:36, where Solomon had previously built a navy 1 Kings 9:26. Being lord-paramount of Edom, Jehoshaphat had the right of using this harbor. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:49
2 Chronicles 20:35-36, explains that the two kings conjointly built the fleet with which the Ophir trade (1 Kings 9:28 note) was to be re-opened. Ahaziah had thus an interest in the ships; and when they were wrecked, attributing, as it would seem, the calamity to the unskillfulness of his ally’s mariners, he proposed that the fleet should be manned in part by Israelite sailors - men probably accustomed to the sea, perhaps trained at Tyre. This proposal Jehoshaphat refused, either offended at... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 22:42
1 Kings 22:42. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old, &c. The intention of the writer of this book was principally to give us the history of the kings of the house of David, with which he begins, and then interweaves with it some account of the kings of Israel. Thus having finished the history of Asa, king of Judah, he recounts the affairs of Israel under Ahab; who being dead, he returns to the history of the kings of Judah, who were the chief objects of his attention. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 22:43
1 Kings 22:43. He walked in all the ways of Asa He took the same care for the government of his kingdom, and especially for the reformation of religion, which Asa did. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away Not fully, or not in the beginning of his reign. For that he did take them away, at least in part, and probably all those which were erected for the worship of idols, appears from 2 Chronicles 17:9. The people offered incense yet in the high places Old corruptions are... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 22:44-46
1 Kings 22:44-46. Jehoshaphat made peace, &c. With Ahab first, and then with his son. This is noted as a blemish in his government, 2 Chronicles 19:2; and proved of most mischievous consequence to his posterity. The remnant of the sodomites he took out of the land He made a more narrow search after them than his father had done, who is said to have removed them; but, it appears, some still remained, though without his knowledge. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 22:47
1 Kings 22:47. A deputy was king Sent and set over them by the kings of Judah, whose viceroy he was, as we now speak. This kind of government continued in Edom from the days of David, who began it, until the time of Jehoram, Jehoshaphat’s son, who lost this authority. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 22:48
1 Kings 22:48. Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish These ships were not to go to Tharshish, but Ophir. But, it appears, they were called ships of Tharshish from their form, being made after the model of the ships which traded to that place. And all such ships, wheresoever they were built, were called ships of Tharshish. The ships were broken at Ezion-geber Probably by a storm. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 22:45
The book of the chronicles ... - Compare 1 Kings 22:39 note. The biographer of Jehoshaphat appears to have been Jehu, the son of Hanani 2 Chronicles 20:34. read more