Chapter 27

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am 3246-3262, bc 753-742

twenty and five 2Kgs 15:32, 2Kgs 15:33-38; 1Chr 3:12; Isa 1:1; Hos 1:1; Mic 1:1; Matt 1:9, Joatham


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And he did 2Chr 26:4; 2Kgs 15:34

he entered not He copied his father's conduct as far as it was pious and constitutional; and avoided his transgression. 2Chr 26:16-21; Ps 119:120; Acts 5:13

the people 2Kgs 15:35


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high gate 2Chr 23:20; Jer 20:2

Ophel or, the tower, "The wall," says the Targum, "of the interior palace." Ophel appears to have been a tower, or fort, on the city wall, in which we read "the Nehthinim dwelt." 2Chr 33:14; Neh 3:26-27


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he built cities 2Chr 11:5-10, 2Chr 14:7, 2Chr 26:9-10

the mountains Josh 14:12-13; Luke 1:39

castles and towers These castles and towers he doubtless built built for the protection of the country people against marauders.


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the king of the Ammonites We find here, that he brought the Ammonites under a heavy tribute for three years; but whether this was the effect of his prevailing against them, is not so evident. Some think that they paid this tribute for three years, and then revolted; that, in consequence, he attacked them, and their utter subjection was the result. 2Chr 20:1; Judg 11:4-33; 2Sam 10:1-14; Jer 49:1-6

ten thousand Rather, "ten thousand cors (korim) of wheat." The cor was same as the homer, and contained about 32 pecks 1 pint.

So much Heb. This


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Jotham 2Chr 26:5

prepared or, established, 2Chr 19:3


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Now the rest 2Chr 20:34, 2Chr 26:22-23, 2Chr 32:32-33, am 3262, bc 742

they are written There is not so much found in the book of Kings, which we have now, as here. In both places we have abridged accounts; the larger histories having been lost.


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Jotham 2Kgs 15:38


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