2 Chronicles 25:24 - Exposition

No mention is made in the parallel of that custodian of treasures in the house of God, here called Obed-Edom, and who possibly was a descendant of the Obed-Edom of David's time ( 2 Samuel 6:10 ; 1 Chronicles 13:13 ); or an Obed-Edom "a porter" ( 1 Chronicles 15:18 ; 1 Chronicles 16:38 ; 1 Chronicles 26:4 , S). The present verse is an interesting one for pointing out the exact differences, even to the minutest of them, in what the two writers (of Kings and Chronicles) respectively took from a common original; e.g. the writer of Kings has "he took;" leaves out " Obed-Edom; " has not the preposition " in " before "the house;" has "Jehovah" instead of "God;" has the preposition " in " before " treasures; " and has "Samaria -ward " ( i.e. to Samaria) instead of only "Samaria;" the writer of Chronicles differing in each of these respects. All the gold … in the house of God. See 2 Kings 12:17 , 2 Kings 12:18 , from which we must conclude that Hazael had already had the pick both for quantity and for quality. The hostages also; the phrase runs in the Hebrew text, "and sons [or, 'the sons'] of the hostages" ( הַתַּעֲרֻבוֹת יְאֵת בְּנַי ); the literal rendering of which is "children or sons of pledges, " i.e. hostages. The word (and indeed the practice so prevalent elsewhere) is found only here and in the parallel.