ie likely enough, tho.t Baal-hermon wo.e the His first invasion was one chiefly of Israel Phmnioio.n co.et of the no.me. If o.ny point and Samaria (2 Kings xv. 29; Isa. ix. I). were to be go.ined by reo.ding the ne.mee, His second was of a much more significant however, as intended to cover exactly the che.ractw. Called in to aid Judah under so.me tract, it may be noted (I) that the Ahaz age.inst Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Hebrew conjunction will perfectly admit of Syria. in alliance, he both conquered these being translated "even ; " and (2) that the latter and brought into vassalago Jnclah order of the names, going from the foreign itself (2 Kings xv. 37; xvi. 9, 10; 2 Chron. to the native Hermon itself, would so far xxviii. 6-8; Isa. ix. 1). He.lah; Habol'; fo.vonr it. Hara; Oozan. This enumeration exceeds Ver. 24.-Epher; same root with Ophrah that of 2 Kings xvii. 6 by the addition of (Judg. vi. ll, 15). Of the seven heads of this Hara, important as helping with consistent half-tribe here quoted, no individual mention witness to the antiquity of the regiou is made elsewhere. Ch. xii. 19-22 con• described. Halah (not the "Calah" of firms their renown for valour. Gen. x. 11) is believed to be iclentifiablu Vera. 25, 26.-The "transgressors" here with Chalcitis, its verbal resemblance to described include mo.nifestly not this half- which comes out a little more evidently tribe Mo.naeseh alone, but the other tribes in its Hebrew form (ri?!:1), A trace of it of Israel of whom this chapter has treated, possibly remains in the· name of a hill, Ver. 25.-And they went a whoring Gia, on the Khabour, i.q. Habo-r of this (1ll~!); so 2 Chron. xxi. ll, 13. This verb, po.sso.ge, o.n important tributary of the in. one form of its root or another, occurs Euphrates, and not the "Chebar" of as many as ninety-seven times in the Penta- Ezekiel. This name Khabour is found in teuch, Judges, Joshua, Psalms, Proverbs; an Assyrian inscription de.ting upwartls and prophets, for only twice in Kings and of eight centuries before Christ. The four times in Chronicles, in all the rest of mention of He.bar in 2 Kings xvii. 6 and the Old Testament writings. xviii. ll is, in the Authorized Version, made Ver. 26.-Pul and Tilgath-pilneser. These to convey the impression of o. place "by" two were chosen ministers of God's will, if the "river of Gozan," instead of being, who.t not ministers of himself. We co.n identify the Hebrew says, "the river of Gozan." the date of this punishment which befell Here, on the other hand, Gozan is, in tho the transgressing Israelites east of the Authorized Version, incorrectly translo.tecl Jordan. The visit of the former, in the as e. river itself, insteo.d of the region of a reign of Meno.hem (2 Kings xv. 15-20), river. It is, o.ccording to the testimony of may be interpreted o.nd might ho.ve operated Le.yard (' Nineveh aud Babylon,' pp. 270- os a lesson and o. w~ning. He wo.s 312), e. remarko.bly fertile tro.ct, being_ the bought off with a thousand talents of Gauzanitis of Ptolcmy, and substo.nt1ally silver. It seems to be said with signifi- the Mygdonia of Polybins and Strabo. co.noe, " So the king of Assyria turned back, Hara; i11i'1, with little doubt, the se.mo and stayed not there in the lo.nd." It wo.s in the reign of Pekah, the usurping suc- as n!J, Ha~an, or C/1arran (Gen. xi. 31_), cessor of Meno.hem's son Pekahiah, that the the ancient o.dopted home of Abmham, 111 completer punishment fell, o.nd 'l'ilge.th- Pa.dan-e.ram, in Mesopotamia, on the Dclik, pilneser effected the captivity spoken of 11, small tributary of the Euphrates. It. is here o.nd in 2 Kings xv. 27-29. The the Greek Carrhm of Strnbo and Polybins. nnme Pul cannot, it would o.ppear, be a 'fheso four names purport to give ns, pro- pure Assyl'io.n no.me, and there is rea.son to bably in brief, the information that thoso think it may be identified with Vul•ll/,IJh of the Captivity here alluded to wcro (grandson of the Shalmo.neser who warred divided-some to settle at Halab on ono with Benhado.cl, etc.), a name found on river, some in Ham on o.nother, 1md tlio Assyrio.n monuments, and belonging to a rest in the district oo.lled Gauzanitis. Tho king who reigned at Calah, n.o. 800-750 region co.lied Ho.lah and that called Gau- (see art." Pol," Smith's' Bible Dictiono.ry'). zanitis, however, were both watered by tho Tilguth-pilneser (see notes on var. 6) was Kho.hour, and therefore the insertion of tlw probably tho founder of tho lower dy1111:9ty name Hamn where it is inserted occlll!ions of Assy1·io., o.nd first king of the now ompue. some difficulty.
HOMILETICS. Ver. 25.-The end of idolatry.. Not~vit~standing_the ex_ceecling brcv!ty of style of the gr.nealogical portion of Chromclcs, 1t 1s not entirely without rcflcct10ns of a moral and religious kind. Few they certaiuly are; but, when they d? occur, they. are of ~ very pronounced sort, '!'his che.pter has spoken of the Reuben1tcs, the Gad1tcs, an, 72 THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [oH. v. 1-26.