2 Chronicles 23:14 - Exposition

Brought out , וַיּוֹצֵא , for "commanded" in the parallel, וַיְחּו ; and this is probably right, the Hebrew in our text probably a clerical or copyist's error. The ranges ; שְׂדֵרוֹת . This word is found only in three other places, viz. twice in the parallel (its 2 Chronicles 23:8 , 2 Chronicles 23:15 ), Revised Version "ranks," and in 1 Kings 6:9 , where it is rendered in the Authorized Version "the boards," but in the Revised Version "the planks , " and margin "rows." The ranges are commonly supposed to mean the ranks or rows of soldiers. The Vulgate has understood them to mean the precincts of the temple. The indications of the remarkable but not uncommon prepositional expression, אֶל־מִבֵּית (enjoying the analogy of ether compounded prepositional expressions, as אֶל־מִחוּץ אֶל־מִגֶּגֶן ) favours the idea that Jehoiada said, Have her forth from inside "the house of the Lord" ( 1 Kings 6:12 ), to within your ranks, and there take care to make a way for her, no one with immature zeal following to slay her there, at the jeopardy of his own life, for under no case let her be slain in the house of the Lord.