m To wit, of Azariah, v. 1. who was alſo called by his Fathers | Name Oded, Or Oaed may te here pur patronymically for the fon of Odd ; as David is put for Chriſt the ſon of David, Fer. 20: 9. and elſewhere ; and Moſes for the Sons of Moſes, Pſal. go. Title Or here is an Ellipſis of the Relative Word, of which there arc | many inſtances both in ſacred and profane Authors ; as 2 Sam. 21. 19. the Brother of Goliah : Mat: 4: 21. John the ſon of Z:bcae : Ike 24. 10, Mary the Mother of James, by comparing Mark 15. 40. Joh I9: 25, Mary the Wife of Cleephas, and many other places. And ſo this place may be thus read, when Aja keard theſe wards, even the Prophecy of the Son of Oded the Prophet. And this Elliplis is the more caſte and tolerable, becauſe this defe&t mighr be well enough un« derſtood and fupplied out of v. 3. Though ſome underſtand this to be another Prophecy of Ozed the Father, which is nor here ex. prefled, which Azariah his Son repeated to them for thc confir. mation of his own Prophecy. n For it required great Courage to put away all the Idols, tro which ſo great a Number of his People were to this day addiQed, and among others, Maachah the Queen,
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9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin,and * the * cy, ;; ſtrangers with them, out of Ephraim and Manaſſeh, us, and out of Simeon 9, ( for they fell to him 7-our of | Ifrael in abundance, when they ſaw that the LORD his God was with him.)
_ 9 Which Tribe,though they had their Inheritance out of the Por®. tion of Judah, did for the generality of them Revolt to Jeroboam with the other Tribes, as appears from many paſſages of Scripture. ' Which they might conveniently do, becaute their Portion bors' dered as on one ſide upon that of Judah, ſo on the other tide upon that of Dan ; and therefore might indifferently joyn with the one or other,as they ſaw fit. » To wit, from the King of Iſrael. 10 So they gathered themſelves together at Jeruſa- lem in the third month 5, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Aſa t. | s To wit, of the ſacred Year in which the Feaſt of Weeks or of Pentecoſt fell : of which ſee Exod. 23: 16. Deut: 16; 9. t Aſa nad Peace but Ten years, ch.14.1. After which probably there were ſome Bickerings and Skirmiſhes, which ſeem to have been com- poſed : and after that Zerah comes againſt him and is diſcomfited. Upon this great Succeſs many of the 1/raelizes fall to him ;-and in his fifteenth year he calls this Aſſembly.
it And they offered unto the LORD + the ſame +: 5 rime, of the ſpoil which they had brought #, {even'that 49. hundred oxen, and ſeven thouſand ſheep.
» Taken from Zrreh and his Complices, ch: 14:13, &c.
12 And they entred into a covenant x to ſeek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their ſou].
x They engaged themſelves by a ſerious and ſolemn Covenany before the Lord and this great Aſſembly.
12 That whoſoever would not ſeek the LORD God © © of I{rael y *ſhould be put to death z, whether ſmall or *Denti;i great, whether man or woman. 5, 9.15.
y Whoſoever ſhould obſtinately refuſe to pay unto God thar Solemn Worſhip which he required at his Temple in Jeruſalem ; or ſhould diſown God, or ſerve other Gods. z By vertue of all thoſe Laws which command that ſuch perſons ſhould be cut of; and in purſuance of that Law, Deu: 17: 2. Compare Heb: 10: 28.
14 And they {ware unto the LOR D with a loud voice, and with ſhouting, and with trumpets, and wich COTneEts.
15 And all Judah || rejoyced at the oath ; for they had ſworn with all their hearc, and ſought him with their whole deſire, and he was found of them ; and the LORD gave them reſt round about. |
|| 7. e. A great number of the People,as ſuch general Expreſſions are frequently underſtood : for none doubt but there were many Diſſemblers and Ungodly Men at this time among them.
16 And alſo cencerning * Maachah | the mother of «; ings Aſa the king, he removed ber from being queen,becauſe 15: 13: ſhe had made an Þ idol in a grove : and Afa cut down t Heb- her idol and ſtamped 3r, and burne 3: at the brook 7%" Kidron. |
. | Of this and the following verſes, ſee on 1 King; 15. 2, 10, 14; Is. 17 But the high places were not taken away out of _ : nevertheleſs, the heart of Afa was perfect all his ays. 18 An he brought into the houſe of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that be himfelf had dedicated, filrer, and gold, and yeſlels,
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* For though there were continual Skirmiſhes between Aſs and Beaſhs and their People a!l their days, r Kings 15. 16. yer 1t did nor b-eak forth into an open War rill Aſa's 35th year, ze. till chat was ended. But how this 35th year is to be computed, ſee the Note