2 Chronicles 20:31

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

D. Jehoshaphat chs. 17-20This account of Jehoshaphat’s rule reveals that God was then actively leading His people. These were the years of alliance with Israel, and Ahab was on the throne of the Northern Kingdom.The Chronicler deliberately presented Jehoshaphat’s record very similarly to the way he recounted Asa’s experiences. In chapters 17-20, as in 14-16, we have a series of contrasts that teach the same lessons. These lessons are the importance of depending on Yahweh and being loyal to Him... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 20:31-37

6. Jehoshaphat’s failures 20:31-37The reference to Jehoshaphat not removing the high places (2 Chronicles 20:33) seems to contradict what the writer said in 2 Chronicles 17:6. Perhaps when the people rebuilt the high places that Jehoshaphat destroyed earlier in his reign, he failed to tear them down again. In this, the king fell short of the complete obedience required for God to establish his throne forever (1 Chronicles 17:11-14). Jehoshaphat’s alliance with Ahaziah, king of Israel, was... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

Reign of Jehoshaphat (concluded)An account of how a host of Moabites and others invaded Judah; how Jehoshaphat prayed to the Lord, and was directed by Jahaziel not to fear; and how the enemy was overthrown by God.The early part of this chapter is additional to the narrative in 1 K: the latter part reproduces 1 Kings 22:41-49.1. Other beside the Ammonites] better (with LXX), ’some of the Meunim’ (or Maonites): cp. 2 Chronicles 26:7 and Judges 10:12. They seem to have been the people from Mt.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 20:31

CONCLUDING NOTICES. END OF THE REIGN (2 Chronicles 20:31 -2 Chronicles 21:1).Comp. 1 Kings 22:41-50. A brief section, which constitutes the whole account of the reign of Jehoshaphat in the older narrative.(31) And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah.—Kings adds: “In the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.” With this omission, our verse coincides with 1 Kings 22:41-42. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

2 Chronicles 20:26 The word valley is a poem in itself; it is associated with a great deal that is beautiful, comforting, and that gives the soul a sense of security and plentifulness. The Bible is full of valleys, as it is full of wells. You know this beautiful land of the mountain and the stream and the great flood and the green sward and the unexpected garden and the great and terrible wilderness oh, that world of sand, that foe that mocks the spring, and smites the summer as a woman might... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

JEHOSHAPHAT-THE DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE2 Chronicles 17:1-19; 2 Chronicles 18:1-34; 2 Chronicles 19:1-11; 2 Chronicles 20:1-37ASA was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat, and his reign began even more auspiciously than that of Asa. The new king had apparently taken warning from the misfortunes of Asa’s closing years; and as he was thirty-five years old when he came to the throne, he had been trained before Asa fell under the Divine displeasure. He walked in the first ways of his father David,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

CHAPTER 20 Judah Invaded, Jehoshaphat’s Prayer and Deliverance 1. The invasion (2 Chronicles 20:1-2 ) 2. Jehoshaphat’s great prayer (2 Chronicles 20:3-13 ) 3. Jehovah’s answer through Jahaziel (2 Chronicles 20:14-17 ) 4. Prostrated before the LORD (2 Chronicles 20:18-19 ) 5. The great deliverance (2 Chronicles 20:20-25 ) 6. In the valley of Berachah (2 Chronicles 20:26-30 ) 7. The record of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 20:31-34 ) 8. Alliance with Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 20:35-37 )... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

THREE ENEMIES AITACKING (vv.1-2) The Lord now allowed a further test of the faith of King Jehoshaphat. Armies of Moab and Ammon came against Judah, and others were added in this attack. Moab speaks of self-satisfied religion (Jeremiah 48:11), and reminds us that a smug, self-complacent attitude is a bad enemy for any of us. Let us not dare to submit to it! Ammon (meaning "peoplish") pictures the falsehood of evil doctrine, its king in David's time being named "Nahash," which means "a... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

REHOBOAM AND JEHOSHAPHAT REHOBOAM (2 Chronicles 10-12) The story of the rejected counsel of the older men and what came of it (chap. 10) is practically as in 1 Kings 12:0 , and furnishes an illustration of the relation of divine sovereignty to human free agency. The fortification of Judah’s cities against Israel (chap. 11) was dwelt upon in the earlier books, as well as the return of the priests and Levites to Jerusalem. Rehoboam’s “wise” action (2 Chronicles 11:23 ) is to be taken in the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 2 Chronicles 20:1-37

Evil Compacts 2Ch 20:37 THESE words were spoken concerning Jehoshaphat, who "walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord." He was a man of mature life, being thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. Notwithstanding the ripeness of his experience, and his really substantial character, he entered into a ship-building speculation with "Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very... read more

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