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Matthew Henry

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 21:17

And they came up into Judah, and brake into it , &c.; l In an hostile manner: and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house , his gold, silver, and precious things, the rich furniture of his palace; no mention is made of any other plunder in the city, or the country; so that they seem to have had their principal eye to the king's palace, and the spoil of that; being so directed by the providence of God, who had stirred them up to do this as a punishment of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:18

After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.' read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 21:19

And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years ,.... So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease: his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness ; either in like manner as Judas's did, Acts 1:18 or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault F1 Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30. ; or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic: so he died of sore diseases... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:17

Save Jehoahaz the youngest - This person had at least three names, Jehoahaz, Ahaziah, ( 2 Chronicles 22:1 ;), and Azariah, ( 2 Chronicles 22:6 ;). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:18

The Lord smote him - "And after all these things the Word of the Lord smote his bowels," etc. - Targum. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:19

After the end of two years , his bowels fell out - The Targum seems to intimate that he had a constipation and inflammation in his bowels; and that at last his bowels gushed out. No burning - "His people made no burning of aromatic woods for him, as they had done for his forefathers." - Targum. See on 2 Chronicles 16:14 ; (note). 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 21:17

Brake into it ; Hebrew, kal future of בָּקַע (compare the other four significant and expressive occurrences of this exact form, 15:19 ; 2 Samuel 23:16 ; 1 Chronicles 11:18 ; Isaiah 48:21 ). The elementary idea of the root is to divide; and it occurs in one conjugation or another fifty-one times, there being no more typical occurrence than that of Genesis 7:11 . Carried away . The Hebrew uses the word "carried captive" ( וַיִּשְׁבּוּ ); possibly the order of Genesis... read more

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