2 Chronicles 21:16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:12-20

Here we have, I. A warning from God sent to Jehoram by a writing from Elijah the prophet. By this it appears that Jehoram came to the throne, and showed himself what he was before Elijah's translation. It is true we find Elisha attending Jehoshaphat, and described as pouring water on the hands of Elijah, after the story of Elijah's translation (2 Kgs. 3:11); but that might be, and that description might be given of him, while Elijah was yet on earth: and it is certain that that history is put... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:16

Moreover, the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines ,.... Which had been depressed in the times of Jehoshaphat, to whom they brought their presents and tribute willingly, 2 Chronicles 17:11 . and of the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians ; not the Ethiopians of Africa, as the Targum, for the Arabians were not near them, but the Chusaean Arabs or Midianites, see Numbers 12:1 . The Targum is, the Word of the Lord did this. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:16

The Philistines , and - the Arabians - We have no other account of this war. Though it was a predatory war, yet it appears to have been completely ruinous and destructive. What a general curse fell upon this bad king; in his body, soul, substance, family, and government! read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:1-20

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 21:16

The moreover of this verse is simply the conjunction "and;" it is not the m of 2 Chronicles 21:11 , for instance. Our Authorized Version "moreover" obscures the purport of the verse. Better the simple "and," as in the Revised Version. The Lord stirred up . Reference may again be made to 2 Chronicles 17:10-12 . The things then gained are now being lost. The Arabians … near the Ethiopians . The Ethiopians, i.e. Cushites, fully fifteen centuries before the date of those original... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:16

The Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians - Probably Joktanian Arabs from the neighborhood of the Cushites. Southern Arabia was originally occupied by Cushites, or Ethiopians Genesis 10:7, whose descendants still exist in a remnant of the Himyaritic Arabs. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 21:16

2 Chronicles 21:16. The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines A people who had been fully subdued and dispirited; but whose spirits and courage God now raised, that they might do his work. And of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians Hebrew, near the Cushites, that is, the Ethiopians properly so called, for they were parted only by the Red sea; or rather a people in Arabia, frequently mentioned in Scripture, and so called either for their likeness in colour... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:1-20

Jezebel’s Baalism in Judah (21:1-23:21)The Baalism of Ahab and Jezebel remained strong in the northern kingdom during the successive reigns of their sons Ahaziah and Joram (2 Kings 1:1-8:15). It spread to Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram, who was married to Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (21:1-20; see notes on 2 Kings 8:16-24).Judah’s next king, Ahaziah, at the direction of his mother Athaliah and her northern relatives, cooperated with the idolatrous northern... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Chronicles 21:16

spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for life in its manifestations. the Philistines. These were tributaries before this (2 Chronicles 17:11 ). were near: or were under the direction of. read more

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