the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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2 Cronica 20:1
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after this also: 2 Chronicles 19:5, 2 Chronicles 19:11, 2 Chronicles 32:1
the children of Moab: Psalms 83:5-8, Isaiah 7:1, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 16:6
came against: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Jeremiah 10:24, Revelation 3:19
Reciprocal: Joshua 9:2 - gathered Judges 10:9 - passed 2 Chronicles 26:8 - the Ammonites 2 Chronicles 27:5 - the king of the Ammonites Nehemiah 4:7 - the Ammonites Psalms 46:6 - heathen Psalms 48:3 - General Psalms 68:30 - Rebuke Psalms 83:6 - Edom Ecclesiastes 3:8 - a time of war Jeremiah 21:2 - according Jeremiah 49:1 - Ammonites Amos 1:13 - and for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
It came to pass after this also,.... After Jehoshaphat's return from Ramothgilead, and putting the civil and religious affairs of his people on a better footing, when he might have expected much peace and prosperity:
that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon; both the descendants of Lot, see Psalms 83:8,
and with them other besides the Ammonites; a great company of Arabians, according to Josephus r; or "with the Meamonites", which the Targum understands of the Idumaeans or Edomites; and so do other interpreters, and which they conclude from 2 Chronicles 20:10. Jarchi thinks the Amalekites are meant, who were of the race of Edom; but the notion of Kimchi seems best, that these are the people that are so called from the name of a place, Meon, and, by an inversion of letters, the same with the Meunim or Maonites, mentioned along with the Zidonians and Amalekites, Judges 10:12 and whom the Septuagint version here calls Minaeans; some s take them to be such who counterfeited the Ammonites in their apparel and gestures:
these came against Jehoshaphat in battle; being instigated perhaps by the Syrians, who owed him ill will for assisting Ahab against them at Ramothgilead; for from that quarter they came, as the following verse shows.
r Antiqu. l. 9. c. 1. sect. 2. s Weemse of the Moral Law, l. 2. c. 6. p. 161.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The present Hebrew (and English) text mentions the Ammonites twice over. Hence, some adopt a different reading and translate “the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites,” etc. Compare 2 Chronicles 20:10, note; Judges 10:12, note; 1 Chronicles 4:41, note.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XX
The Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites, invade Judah, 1, 2.
Jehoshaphat proclaims a fast, and gathers the people together
to seek the Lord, 3, 4.
His prayer to God, 5-12.
Great and small, male and female, seek the Lord, 13.
Jahaziel predicts the downfall of their enemies, 14-17.
The king, the Levites, and the people take courage; praise and
magnify God; and go forth to meet their enemies, 18-21.
The enemies are confounded, and destroy each other, 22-24.
The men of Judah take the spoil, praise the Lord, and return
with joy to Jerusalem, 25-28.
The fear of the Lord falls upon all their enemies round about;
and the land has rest, 29, 30.
Transactions and character of Jehoshaphat, 31-34.
He joins with Ahaziah, king of Israel, in building a fleet of
ships to go to Tarshish, but they are wrecked at Ezion-geber,
35-37.
NOTES ON CHAP. XX
Verse 2 Chronicles 20:1. Children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites — Here there must be a mistake; surely the Ammonites are the same as the children of Ammon. Our translators have falsified the text by inserting the words "other beside," which have nothing properly to represent them in the Hebrew. Literally translated, the words are: "And it happened after this, the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites:" and thus the Vulgate. The Syriac, which the Arabic follows, has felt the difficulty, and translated, Came together with warlike men to fight, c. The Septuagint have given it another turn: Και μετ' αυτων εκ των Μιναιων, And with them people of the Minaites which were a people of Arabia Felix near the Red Sea. The Targum has ועמהון מן אדומאי Ve-immehon min Edomaey, "And with them some of the Edomites." This is very likely to be the true reading, as we find from 2 Chronicles 20:10; 2 Chronicles 20:22-23, that they procured men from Mount Seir; and these were the Idumeans or Edomites. We should, in my opinion, read the text thus: The children of Moab, and the children of common, and with them some of the Edomites.
