Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 26:7
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
7. Gur-baal ] An unidentified place; a “Gur” is mentioned in 2Ki 9:27. A slight correction of the Heb. would give, “in Gerar (cp. Gen 20:1) and against the Meunim.”
Mehunims ] R.V. Meunim; cp. 2Ch 20:1 (note).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
On the Mehunims or Maonites, see Jdg 10:12 note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. And God helped him] “And the WORD of the Lord helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gerar, and the plains of Meun.” – Targum. These are supposed to be the Arabs which are called the Meuneons, or Munites, or Meonites.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
7. Gur-baalthought by some tobe Gerar, and by others Gebal.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And God helped him against the Philistines,…. He did not do all before related of himself, and by his own strength, but by the help of God; the Targum is
“the Word of the Lord helped him:”
and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal; the same with Gerar, according to the Targum; which also belonged to the Philistines, and had a king in Abraham’s time, Ge 20:1, the same with Askelon, another of the five principalities of the Philistines:
and the Mehunims; or the Minaeans, as the Septuagint, and whom Pliny n makes mention of among the Arabians; they seem to be the Scenite Arabs; see 2Ch 20:1, or rather, as the Targum, those that dwelt in the plain of Maon, which was in Arabia Petraea.
n Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) The Philistines, and . . . the Arabians.They are named together in 2Ch. 17:11 also. Their seat, Gur-Baal, only mentioned here, is unknown. The Targum makes it Gerar; the LXX. apparently Petra (in Edom). The reading Gedor-Baal has been proposed.
The Mehunims (Heb., Menm) are the Maonites, or people of Maon (Man), near Mount Seir. (See Note on 2Ch. 20:1.)
(The Syriac and Arabic omit from wall of Ashdod 2Ch. 26:6, to gifts to Uzziah, 2Ch. 26:8.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. And against the Arabians These also injured Israel in the days of Jehoram. 2Ch 21:16. The position of Gur-baal is unknown; but from its association here with the Mehunims, we infer that it was somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Seir. On the Mehunims, or Maonites, see notes on 2Ch 20:1; 1Ch 4:41; and Jdg 10:12.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ch 26:7. And the Mehunims Houbigant, with the Vulgate, reads the Ammonites; and the next verse, as well as the fifth of the next chapter, gives us reason to believe that this reading is just.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
2Ch 26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
Ver. 7. That dwelt in Gurbaal. ] Which is the same with Gerar, saith the Gloss: where Abimelech once reigned, and Abraham sojourned.
And the Mehunims.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mehuniins. See note on 2Ch 20:1 and 1Ch 4:41.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
God helped: 2Ch 14:11, 1Ch 5:20, 1Ch 12:18, Psa 18:29, Psa 18:34, Psa 18:35, Isa 14:29, Act 26:22
the Arabians: 2Ch 17:11, 2Ch 21:16
Reciprocal: Jdg 10:12 – the Maonites 2Ch 18:31 – the Lord Ezr 4:20 – toll Act 2:11 – Arabians