2 Chronicles 25:10 - Exposition

It appears that, though this contingent from Israel's land was a hired force, yet for some reason their heart was in their calling, perhaps in anticipation of plunder. It may well be that they asked why they were discharged; and whether the right answer were given them, that the Lord dwelt not among them, or some wrong answer, it evidently did not improve matters, but rankled in their hearts till it found relief ( 2 Chronicles 25:13 , 2 Chronicles 25:22 ), as they concluded that either their ability or fidelity, or both, were called in question. The 'Speaker's Commentary' very aptly cites the keen resentment and mortification that the Athenians are recorded to have felt in similar circumstances as told in Plutarch's 'Lives:' "Cimon," §17. Separated them. This is the verb occurring several times in the first verses of Genesis 1:1-31 . ( יַבְדִּילֵם ); there it is always followed by the preposition בֵּי , when speaking of the separating of two things from one another. Though this be meant here, it is not what is exactly said, and the prefix preposition לְ before the substantive ( לְהַגְּדוּד ) may, as Keil says, be regarded as designating the appositional accusative to that affixed in the shape of the pronoun "them" to the verb.