2 Chronicles 21:16 - Exposition

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 treatises from which the writers of Kings and Chronicles respectively borrowed their materials, or some of them, are recorded both genealogically and geographically in Genesis 10:6-8 . They had their location very early in the south of Arabia, as also to the south of Egypt, speaking generally, with the Red Sea on the east, the Libyan desert on the west, and Abyssinia on the south, whilst Syene marked conspicuously a site on the line of the northern bounds between them and Egypt ( Ezekiel 29:9-11 ; Isaiah 18:1 , Isaiah 18:2 ; Isaiah 45:14 ; Zephaniah 3:10 ). They are almost invariably connected with Africa, from whence it is now that stress is laid upon those of them to whom the Arabians, on the other side of the Red Sea, were contiguous.