Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;
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Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;
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Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
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And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 21:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 17:11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.
- 1 Kings 11:14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.
- 1 Kings 11:23 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
- 2 Chronicles 22:1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- 1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
- 2 Samuel 24:1 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
- 1 Kings 11:11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
- Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
- Ezra 1:5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 10:5-6 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Isaiah 45:5-7 I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
- Amos 3:6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain There were other Arabians in Africa Southward toward Egypt.
There were other Arabians in Africa Southward toward Egypt.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram…
2Ch 21:16 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Ethiopians:
Ver. 16. Moreover the Lord stirred up.] And so fulfilled all that Elijah had foretold: why is he not then better believed? If some astrologer had once or twice prognosticated, and it proved true, he should be much cried up and credited. And shall not God’s prophets be so? "Believe the prophets, and ye shall prosper." But many believe them no otherwise than they do the predictions of an almanac, if so much.
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And of the Arabians.] The inhabitants of Arabia Felix and Petraea. These were instigated, likely, by the Edomites, whom Jehoram sought to reduce, but could not.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Philistines; a people fully subdued and dispirited; but…
The Philistines; a people fully subdued and dispirited; but God now raiseth their spirits and courage to do his work.
Near the Ethiopians, Heb. near the Cushites, i.e. either the Ethiopians, from whom they were parted only by the Red Sea, each dwelling upon the opposite shores of it; or rather, a people in Arabia, frequently mentioned in Scripture, and so called, either for their likeness in colour and complexion to the Ethiopians properly so called, or because the one of these people were a colony of the other. But the Ethiopians above Egypt were far enough from these other Arabians, being separated from them by the Red Sea.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain After all this the Lord smote him in his…
After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.''
After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.''
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ch2 21:19And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years,.... So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease:
his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; either in like manner as Judas's did, Act 1:18 or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault (a); or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic:
so he died of sore diseases; he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very painful and distressing:
and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings of his fathers; as they did for his grandfather Asa, Ch2 16:14, they did not burn spices or odoriferous wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of it, needed it, as Jarchi observes.
(a) Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Philistines - A people fully subdued and dispirited: but…
Philistines - A people fully subdued and dispirited: but God now raises their spirits and courage to do his work. Ethiopians - A people in Arabia, so called, either for their likeness in complexion to the Ethiopians, or because the one of these people were a colony of the other.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. The Philistines, and - the Arabians] We…
Verse 16. The Philistines, and - the Arabians] We have no other account of this war. Though it was a predatory war, yet it appears to have been completely ruinous and destructive. What a general curse fell upon this bad king; in his body, soul, substance, family, and government!
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 21:16. The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the…
2Ch 21:16. The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines — A people who had been fully subdued and dispirited; but whose spirits and courage God now raised, that they might do his work. And of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians — Hebrew, near the Cushites, that is, the Ethiopians properly so called, for they were parted only by the Red sea; or rather a people in Arabia, frequently mentioned in Scripture, and so called either for their likeness in colour and complexion to the Ethiopians, or because one of these tribes was a colony from the other.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians - Probably…
The Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians - Probably Joktanian Arabs from the neighborhood of the Cushites. Southern Arabia was originally occupied by Cushites, or Ethiopians Gen 10:7, whose descendants still exist in a remnant of the Himyaritic Arabs.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Philistines; who, it seems, had been obedient since the…
Philistines; who, it seems, had been obedient since the days of David. --- Ethiopians, who lay west of the Arabians, from the Red Sea to the lower Egypt and the Nile, (C.) bordering on Madian. There was another Ethiopia to the south of Egypt. M.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. The Philistines, and… Arabians — These nations had…
16. The Philistines, and… Arabians — These nations had been tributary to Jehoshaphat, (2Ch_17:11,) but under his wicked son they revolted, and Jehovah used them as his rod of anger to punish Jehoram, as he had foretold. 2Ch_21:14. “Southern Arabia was originally occupied by Cushites, or Ethiopians, (Gen_10:7,) whose descendants still exist in the modern Mahra, a remnant of the Himyaritic Arabs. ‘The Arabians that were near the Ethiopians’ were probably Joktanean Arabs from the neighbourhood of these Cushites.” — Rawlinson.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16, 17 (no parallel in Kings). The Invasion of…
16, 17 (no parallel in Kings). The Invasion of the Philistines and Arabians
16. Moreover] R.V. And.
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stirred up … the spirit] Cp. 2Ch_36:22 and 1Ch_5:26.
that were near the Ethiopians] Render, which are beside the Cushites; cp. R.V. and 2Ch_14:9 (note).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Moreover.—And, here equivalent to so.
(16) Moreover.—And, here equivalent to so.
The Lord stirred up against Jehoram.—Isa_13:17. The phrase, “stirred up the spirit”—i.e., the will—of a man to an undertaking, is found in Jer_51:11; Hag_1:14 (Comp. 1Ch_5:26; Ezr_1:1.)
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The Philistines, and of the Arabians.—These are mentioned together elsewhere as enemies of Judah. (See 2Ch_26:7; 2Ch_17:11; Jer_25:20.) The invasion of the Philistines and Arabians accords with Joe_3:4-6, and is certainly historical (Thenius on 2Ki_8:23-24).
That were near the Ethiopians.—Literally, At the hand of (i.e., beside) the Cushites. Some tribes. of southern Arabia. There were Cushite settlements on both sides of the Red Sea. LXX., well: τοὺς Ἄραβας καὶ τοὺς ὁμόρους τῶν Αἰθιόπων; Vulg., “qui confines sunt Aethiopum.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The moreover of this verse is simply the conjunction…
The moreover of this verse is simply the conjunction "and;" it is not the m of ver. 11, for instance. Our Authorized Version "moreover" obscures the purport of the verse. Better the simple "and," as in the Revised Version. The Lord stirred up. Reference may again be made to 2Ch_17:10-12. The things then gained are now being lost. The Arabians near the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians, i.e. Cushites, fully fifteen centuries before the date of those original treatises from which the writers of Kings and Chronicles respectively borrowed their materials, or some of them, are recorded both genealogically and geographically in Gen_10:6-8. They had their location very early in the south of Arabia, as also to the south of Egypt, speaking generally, with the Red Sea on the east, the Libyan desert on the west, and Abyssinia on the south, whilst Syene marked conspicuously a site on the line of the northern bounds between them and Egypt (Eze_29:9-11; Isa_18:1, Isa_18:2; Zep_3:10) They are almost invariably connected with Africa, from whence it is now that stress is laid upon those of them to whom the Arabians, on the other side of the Red Sea, were contiguous.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines…
stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians
Stirring the spirit is a metonym for making someone want to act. Here "spirit" is singular and refers to the Philistines as a group and to the Arabians as a group. AT: "provoked against Jehoram the Philistines and the Arabians" (See: Metonymy)
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against Jehoram
Here Jehoram refers to Jehoram and the people of Judah that he ruled. AT: "against Jehoram and the people of Judah" (See: Synecdoche)
the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who were near the Cushites
The Philistines and the Arabians were two different nations. The Arabians lived southeast of Judah near the Cushites, and the Philistines lived west of Judah. These nations were stirred up separately. This can be made explicit. AT: "the spirit of the Philistines and the spirit of the Arabians who were near the Cushites" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
No son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son
"They took away all of his sons except Jehoahaz, his youngest son" or "The only son they left to him was Jehoahaz, his youngest son"
Jehoahaz, his youngest son
This same son is called "Ahaziah" in 2 Chronicles 22:01.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:16-17 Jehoram’s inability to resist the initial revolts of…
21:16-17 Jehoram’s inability to resist the initial revolts of Edom and Libnah (21:8-10) encouraged other attacks on Judah, this time by the Philistines and the Arabs. Once again, the royal line was nearly destroyed.
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