2 Chronicles 16:6 - Exposition

The affair seems thus to have come to an unbloody termination. The parallel ( 1 Kings 15:22 )is so much the more graphic that it contains the two additions that Asa "made a proclamation throughout all Judah," and one that "exempted none" from joining in the duty of moving all the stones and all the timber from Ramah, and diverting' them to the use of building Geba and Mizpah. This greatly contributed to command the road from the north to Jerusalem. Geba . This was Geba of Benjamin, as clearly stated in the parallel. It was a position north of Ramah, whether opposite Michmash and the modern Jeba is not certain, as some think this answers to Gibeah of Saul ( 1 Samuel 14:2 , 1 Samuel 14:5 ). Mizpah (see Jeremiah 41:2 , Jeremiah 41:3 , Jeremiah 41:9 , Jeremiah 41:10 ). This Mizpah is not that of the Shefelah ( Joshua 15:38 ), but was situate about two hours, or a short six miles, north-west of Jerusalem, on the Samaria route, and is probably the modern Neby Samwil (see also 2 Kings 25:22-26 ; Je 40:5-41:18).