Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 12:4
And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
4. the fenced cities ] Cp. 2Ch 11:5.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
See 1 the Kings 14:25 note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah,…. Which Rehoboam had lately built, and placed his sons in them, 2Ch 11:5, these he took without any opposition:
and came to Jerusalem; there being no army to oppose him; and so Sesostris took many countries without fighting, and among the rest Phoenicia, as Manetho o relates, in which Judea may be included.
o Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
After the capture of the fenced cities of Judah, he marched against Jerusalem. – 2Ch 12:5. Then the prophet Shemaiah announced to the king and the princes, who had retired to Jerusalem before Shishak, that the Lord had given them into the power of Shishak because they had forsaken Him. , forsaken and given over into the hand of Shishak. When the king and the priests immediately humbled themselves before God, acknowledging the righteousness of the Lord, the prophet announced to them further that the Lord would not destroy them since they had humbled themselves, but would give them deliverance in a little space. , according to a little, i.e., in a short time. is accusative after . My anger shall not pour itself out upon Jerusalem. The pouring out of anger is the designation of an exterminating judgment; cf. 2Ch 34:25.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(4) He took the fenced cities.Those very cities which Rehoboam had fortified as bulwarks against Egypt (2Ch. 11:5-12). Fourteen names of cities have disappeared from the Karnak inscription, but Socho, Adoraim, and Ajalon, are still read there.
Came to (so far as to) Jerusalem.Comp. Isa. 36:1-2. The verse is not in Kings. Thenius (on 1Ki. 14:26) says that the chronicler has here made use of really historical notices. It is self-evident.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 12:4 And he took the fenced cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Ver. 4. And he took the fenced cities. ] There is no fence against God; no shielding ourselves against his fire. The Turks do so in Hungary and other parts of Christendom for the punishment of Popish artolatry and other abominations.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the fenced: 2Ch 11:5-12, Isa 36:1, Jer 5:10
came: 2Ki 18:17, Isa 8:8, Isa 10:11