king of Judah, ſaying, The thiſtle that was in Lebanon, ſent to the cedar that was in Lebanon », ſaying, Give thy daughter ro my fon to wife o; and there paſſed by a wild beaſt chat was in Lebanon, and trod down the thiſtle p. n By the chile, a low and contemptible, yet troubleſome Shrub, he underſtands Amaziah z and by the cedar, himſelf, whom he inti- mates to be far ſtronger than he, and out of hisreach. » Ler us make a match, i. e. let us fight. On:ly he expreſſeth this Bloody work 1n a Civilmanner, as Amaziah had done, wv. 8. and as Avner did, 2 Sas, 2.14, Or, let thy Kingdom and mine be United under one King, as formerly they were ; and let us decide it by a pitched Bat- tel, whether thou or I thall te that King. Or, as ſome expound it, by affirming, That ir was great arrogancy and preſumption for him to defire a Friendly League or Affinity with him ; he leaves him to gueſs how intolerable it was that he ſhould undertake to -wage War againſt him. p And with no leſs eaſe ſhall my Soldiers tread down thee and thy Forces.
ro Thou haſt indeed ſmitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifed thee up : glory of rhs 9, and tarry þ at home : + Heb. # for why ſhouldeft thou meddle to hy hure, that thou ;;, buſt, ſhouldeſt fall, even thou, and Judah with thee ?
q Content thy ſelf with that Glory and Succeſs, and ler not thine Ambition betray thee to ruin. ;
Ix But Amaziah would not heary : therefore Jehoaſh king of Iſrael went up /, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the Face at Becth-ſhemeſh, which belongeth to Judah #.
r Becauſe God blinded and hardned him to his deſtruQion, for his abominable and ridiculous Tdolatry, 2 Chron: 25: 10. {To wit, inro the Kingdom of Judah, carrying the War into his Enemies Countrey-
# Which is added to diſtinguilh it from that Berhſhemeſb in 1ſachars and another in Naphrhali, Joſ. 19. 22, 38.
I2 And Judah f was put to: the worſe before Iſrael, +} Heb.u# and they fled « every man to their tents. ſmigtens
# Being unſatisfied in the ground and manner ofthe quarrel, and
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r; And Jchoaſh king of Iſrael took Amaziah king of that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how — Judah, che fon of Jehoaſh, the ſon of Ahaziah, ar Berh- , he recovered Damaſcus, and Hamath, 21þich belonged ro themeſh, and came to Jeruſalem x, and brake down the ' Judah # p, are they nor written in the book of the DEN = wail of Jeruſalem, from the gate of Ephraim y, unto Chronicles of the kings of 1{rae! ? WE the corner-gate; four hundred cubits z. þ Theſe were Cities of Syr:a, but were taken from the Syrians by
x Commanding entrance in Amaziah's name, and with his conſent, ' David and — 2 _ 1 - 2 _ > 3. and probably by chem which he durſt rot deny. y Which led to Ephraim 2 Which was ' incorporated wm . ANG a ek - RIOT PENEEY own Tribe, done, partly in ſcorn and contempt ; and partly, that he might re- to w YR _ that rime - ey belonged ; but afrery ards they were enter and retake it, if they ſhould attempt to renew the War. I the Syri ny - an Im 9 ow eee cr by this Jeenfmn,
14 And he took all the gold and ſilver, and all the 29 And Jeroboam _ vu ” _—_ = __ even with veſſels that were found in the houſe of the LORD, and the kings of Ifrael ; and Zachariah his fon reigned in in the treaſures ofthe kings houſe, and hoſtages a, and his itead. returned to Samaria 6.
a To afſure their peaceable carriage towards him. b He did not : CA WS XV. = keep Jeruſalem, nor ſeek to gain the poſſeſſion and dominion of that þ Azariah his good Reign « but is puniſhed with Leproſie, and dicth, 1==7, Kingdom : partly, becauſe he thought he could not keep it, conft- Zachariah reigneth ill: is ſlain by Shallim * who reigreth a month. and dering the difficulty he found inkeeping his own from ſuch porenr | zs ſlain by Menahem, 8 — 15. He & ſtrengthened by Pul K ng of Aſſyria. and near Enemies as the Syrians were 3 and the great affe&ion which Pekahiah his Son ſucceedeth him, 16 — ——-— 22: He i5 ſlain by Pekah,
all J»4ah bare to Davids Houle : and partly, becauſe God fo inclined 23 —— 26. 4 part of the Iſraelites is carried away Captive t» Aſſjria by his heart, that he might make good his promiſe to David and his Tiglath Pileſer, 27 = 29. Hoſhea flayeth Pckah, and ſucceedeth him : Family. Jotham s good Reign over Judah : Ahaz ſucceedeth him, 30---38.
x5 \ Now the reſt of the a&s of Jehoaſh which he TN the twenty and ſeventh year of Jeroboam king of 4 xx.r/ did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah | Iſrael «, + began Azariah 5 fon of Amaziah King of hs king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Judah to reign « |
Chronicles of the kings of Iſrae] 4 SS a Qveſt, How can this be true, ſcing Amaziah, the Father of this
16 And Jehoaſh ſlept with hisFathers, and was buried | 4zar.3þ, lived only till the 15th year of Jerotoam's Reign, chap; 14: in Samaria with the kings of Iſrael, and Jeroboam his | *» 23? 4anw. This might be either, Firſt, Becauſe Jeroloam was ſon reigned in his ſtead. made King by, and Reigned with his Father eleven or twelve years,
; | q j 2nd afterwards Reigned alone ; and ſo there is a two-fold beginni I7 4 And Amaziah the ſon of Joaſh king of Judah. of his Kingdom ; by the his wes his hoe x Yous Ka te", lived after the death of Jehoaſh ſon of Jehoahaz king of Jater, his 15th Year. Or, Secondly, becauſe there was an Inter-
Iſrael, fifteen years. Reign for eleven or twelve Years in the Kingdom of Judah ; either, | 13 And the reſt of the as of Amaziah, are they not through the prevalency of that Fation which cur off Amaziah the F :1 the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Father, and kept the Son out of his ang, nog or, becauſe Azariah . written 11 tne DO & 8g was very young when his Father was lain, and the people were Judah ? . aot agreed to reſtore him to his Right till his 16th Year, chap: 14:21, 18: Yor. 19 Now * they .. made a conſpiracy againſt him in | 2? Chr. 26: T- And yet theſe 11 or 12 Years of Inter-Reign,.in which ny I: J eruſalem : and he fled to Lachith c, but they ſent after he was excluded from the exerciſe of his Regal Office, ſome think - . i
to be included in thoſe 52 years which are here acſribedto Azariah's