2 Chronicles 12:7 - Exposition

Some deliverance . The Hebrew for "some" here is כִּמְעַט . There is plain authority ( Ruth 2:7 ; Psalms 38:10 ) for translating this word as of time, and the rendering "a little while" of the margin, will, therefore, seem preferable. But see next note, and the" altogether" of 2 Chronicles 12:12 . It has often been most justly remarked what grateful note should be taken of the fact that God always is recorded as turning such a wistful, loving eye to any symptom of repentance ( 1 Kings 21:27-29 ; Jonah 2:5-9 ). Who can estimate the loss of men, that the symptoms have been so frequent, so comparatively easily found as compared with the reality of lastingness?