{"id":11414,"date":"2022-09-24T04:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-107\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:01:53","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 10:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants forever. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 7<\/strong>. <em> if thou be kind to this people, and please them<\/em> ] The Chronicler has softened the forcible words of the parallel passage (<span class='bible'>1Ki 12:7<\/span>), &ldquo;If thou wilt be a <em> servant<\/em> unto this people this day, and wilt <em> serve<\/em> them.&rdquo; The words which were too blunt for Rehoboam were also too blunt for the Chronicler.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>7. If thou be kind to this people,and please them, and speak good words to them<\/B>In the Book ofKings [<span class='bible'>1Ki 12:7<\/span>], the wordsare, &#8220;If thou wilt be a servant unto this people, and wilt servethem.&#8221; The meaning in both is the same, namely, If thou wiltmake some reasonable concessions, redress their grievances, andrestore their abridged liberties, thou wilt secure their strong andlasting attachment to thy person and government.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ki 12:7]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(7) <strong>If thou be kind to this people.<\/strong>A free paraphrase of, If <em>to-day<\/em> thou become <em>a servant<\/em> to this people and <em>serve<\/em> them (Kings)words which may have seemed inappropriate to the redactor, in connection with <em>the king,<\/em> but which form a pointed antithesis to the last clause of the verse, they will be <em>thy<\/em> <em>servants for ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>And please them.<\/strong><em>Be propitious to them, receive them graciously<\/em> (<em>raah<\/em>)<em>.<\/em> (<span class='bible'>Gen. 33:10<\/span>.) Kings, answer them.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ch 10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 7. <strong> If thou be kind to this people.<\/strong> ] &#8220;If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them.&#8221; 1Ki 12:7 <em> See Trapp on &#8220;<\/em> 1Ki 12:7 <em> &#8220;<\/em> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>If thou be kind: 1Ki 12:7, Pro 15:1 <\/p>\n<p>speak good: Gen 49:21, 2Sa 15:2-6<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants forever. 7. if thou be kind to this people, and please them ] The Chronicler has softened the forcible words of the parallel passage (1Ki 12:7), &ldquo;If thou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-107\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 10:7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}