2 Chronicles 20:13 - Exposition

If the whole narration called for one more touch, it has it in the pathetic, Brief, telling graphicness of this verse. Their little ones . The familiar Hebrew word ( טַפָם ) is expressive of the quick, tripping step of the young and of women. Gesenius would regard it in this passage as designating the whole family as distinguished from the head of it, and as amplified by "wives" and "children" instanced afterward, quoting the very insufficient support of Genesis 47:12 . Our text occurs again in 2 Chronicles 31:18 .