2 Chronicles 24:20 - Exposition

Came upon ; margin, clothed; Revised Version margin, clothed itself with ( 1 Chronicles 12:18 ). Compare the beautiful expression of Revelation 1:10 , ,I was in the Spirit;" it was not merely that the Spirit deigned to visit St. John in Patmos, but so possessed him that he was in the Spirit. The son of Jehoiada ; i.e. very possibly grandson of Jehoiada (Jehoiada's great age the rather countenancing this interpretation) and " son of Barachias" ( Matthew 23:35 ). That ye cannot prosper . The Hebrew text says, "and ye will not prosper." This clause may read all the more forcibly if kept under the dominance of the why of the former, reminding us of such appeals as "Why will ye die?" etc. ( 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; Deuteronomy 18:1-22 , throughout). Reading these two clauses in the preterite or present tense will make them neither less forcible nor less correct, so indicating that they, the princes and the nation, were already beginning to eat the fruit of their ways, and "rumours of war," if not war itself, were on them.