2 Chronicles 25:6 - Exposition

Out of Israel . The next verse tells us that "all the children of Ephraim" (which was strictly the northern Israel's chief tribe) are hereby designated. It is not quite clear that this Israel is exactly conterminous with the Israel of 2 Chronicles 13:3 , the identity of which, however, with Joab's Israel ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ) is very probable. The boundaries of the strict tribe of Ephraim, whose ancestor was Joseph's younger son, are described in Joshua 16:5 . The tribe were located as nearly as possible in the centre of the land. Ephraim, however, is here, as in many other places, as the name of the royal tribe, so named upon the whole of the northern kingdom ( Isaiah 9:8 ; Isaiah 17:3 ; Isaiah 28:3 ; several times in almost every chapter of Hosea, and for a typical instance, cf. Hosea 14:8 ).