The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Chronicles — Section 239

17-19, 83; xvii. 2; Exocl. xxxiii.11); makes from Gibeon to Beth-horon (.Josh. x. 10; 1 mention of the consccmtion of the le.nd by Mace. iii. 16); to the road up the l\fount of tho so.notu11ry, nm! in particular of the very Olives (2 Sam. xv. 30); and to tho approach service of consecration nnd the special fore- to the city in which Samuel anointed Saul sooing provision in the.t service for e, crisis (1 Sam. ix. 11), i.e. '' the hill up to the like tho present (1 Kings viii. 33-45; eh. city." The pa.ese.ge, Judg. viii. I;;, Autho- vi. 24-35; vii. 1); and then (vers. 10, 11) rized Version '' before the sun was up " Re- stntcs pointedly the case nnd complnint with vised Version" from the ascent of Heres," its nggrnvntions (Deut. ii. 4, 8, 9, l!); Numb. possibly desigMtes a riaing ground, named xx. 21; Judg, xi. 18), and with a parting "the Ascent of the Sun," or," of Heres." The appeal, confession of their own weakness, following extract from Keil, with its qnota.- ignorance, and dependence unfeigned, com- tions from Robinson, is interesting. "The mits the ea.use of the alnrmed people to God. wilderness Jezreel was without doubt the Our eyes e,re upon thee. So, with a multi- name of a part of the great stretch of flat tude of other passages, that supreme pe,ttem country bounded on the south by the Waddy one, Pa. cxxiii. 2. El Ghar, and extending from the Dead Sea Ver. 13.-If the whole narration called to the neighbourhood of Tekoa, which is now for one more touch, it has it in the pathetic, called El Hass(Ulah, after a waddy on its brief, telling graphicness of this verse. Their northern side. The whole country on the little ones. The familiar Hebrew word (Cl91f>) west side of the Dead Sea, ' where it does is expressive of the quick, tripping step of not consist of mountain ridges or deep val- the young and of women. Gesenius would leys, is high table-land sloping gradually reg11rd it in this passage as designating the towards the east, wholly waste, merely whole family as distinguished from the head covered here and there by a few bushes and of it, and as amplified by "wives" and without the slightest trace of having ever "children" instanced afterward, quoting the been cultivated' (Robinson's 'Palest.,' sub very insufficient support of Gen. xlvii. 12. voce). Our present ascent of Ziz, or Hazziz, Our text oocurs again in eh. xxxi. 18. has perhaps remained in the Waddy El Ver. 14.-Jahaziel. This Jahe.ziel, a Le- Hassasah. . . . Robinson takes it to be the vite of the sons of Asaph, is not mentioned pass, which at present leads from Ain-jiddy elsewhere. His genealogy is traced to Mat- to the table-land. Yet it is described by taniah, i.e. Nethaniah (1 Chron. x.xv. 2), him as a • fearful pass,' and it can hardly who is parallel with Amariah of 1 Chron. vi. be thought of here even if the enemy like 11. It is very possible that Pa. lxx.xiii., the Bedouins, now when on their forays, which is a psalm of Asaph, and which men- may be supposed to have marched along the tions the enmity ofMoab, Ammon, and Edom, shore of the sea, and ascended to the table- may be synchronous with this history. land only at Engedi: for the Israelites did Ver. 15.-The battle is not yours, but not meet the enemy in this ascent, but above God's; i.e. God will do the fighting (see ver. upon the table-land." J osephns translates 17, first and third clauses); so e.lso I Sam. r;i:;:i by •(•xiis, but with no legitimate justi- xvii. 47. fication. The end of the brook; i.e. rather Ver. 16.-The ollff of Ziz. Read with the end of the brook-way, or course of the Revised Version, the ascent of Ziz (or brook when there was water to make one. probably Hazziz), a place named only here. Ver. 17.-Stand ... and see the salvation •.rJie Hebrew word here rendered "cliff" is of the Lord with you. The grand original of the familiar ;fo_,.~. meaning "an ascent," or these words (Exod. xiv. 13) would be known " e, rising ground." It is replaced in the to both Jahaziel and Jehoshaphat. Septuagint by both a.v&/3acm and 1'p6rT/3acris. Ver. 18.-The infinite relief to the mind Stanley, in an interesting note on the word of Jehoshaphat and bis people finds now fit ('Sinai and Palestine,' p. 500, edit, 1866), expression in simple adoration. Would that says it is applied to several localities in such first gratitude were but sustained to Palestine, viz.: (1) The "Ascent of Akrab- the end more frequently than it is common bim," i.e. scorpions (Numb. xxxiv. 4; Judg. to find the case I i. 36; Josh. xv. 3), on the south border of Ver. 19.-0f the ohildren of the Korhites; Judah and probably the same as the Pass of i.e., with Revised Version, of the Korahites, Safeh. (2) "The going up to (or of) Adum- who were the best of tLe Kohathite family mim," i.e. the "1IBcent of. the Red," near (1 Chron. vi. 22; al8o at head of Ps. xlii.- Gilgal, on border of Jndah and Benjamin xlix., Authorized Version a.nd Revised Ver- (Josh. xv. 7; xviii. 17), probably the same sion). Keil would translate, " Of the sons with the "Pass of Jericho." (3) The "going of Kohath, yea, of the Korahites." up to Gur" (2 Kings ix. 27). (1) Our Ver. 20.-The wilderness of Tekoa. The present text. (5) The "mounting up of king and people, army and pro~het a.nd Luhith '' in Monb (Isa, xv. 5; Jer. xlviii. 5). Levite singers, start e1tr!y for the wilderness The word is also applied to the steep pass of Tekoa, not less than ten miles' distance  24-0 THE SEOOND BOOK OF THE OHRONIOLES. [cu. xx. 1-8T.