{"id":11438,"date":"2022-09-24T04:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-1112\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:02:36","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-1112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-1112\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 11:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 12<\/strong>. <em> having Judah and Benjamin on his side<\/em> ] Render, <strong> And so Judah and Benjamin became his<\/strong>. Rehoboam&rsquo;s fortresses (which were scattered all over the country and were not placed on the borders only) were intended to keep Judah in subjection. His appointment of military governors (<span class='bible'>2Ch 11:11<\/span>) and his dispersion of his sons among the fortresses (<span class='bible'>2Ch 11:23<\/span>) were also parts of the same policy of preparedness to put down revolt.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>In every several city, <\/B>to wit, so fortified, as he said, <span class='bible'>2Ch 11:11<\/span> <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And in every several city he put shields and spears<\/strong>,&#8230;. Furnished them with these and perhaps other pieces of armour, these being put for all, to defend themselves with against an enemy, and to annoy them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and made them exceeding strong<\/strong>; so that they could not be easily taken:<\/p>\n<p><strong>having Judah and Benjamin on his side<\/strong>: which tribes cleaved to one another, and to Rehoboam, and to the kings of the house of David, in later times, as well as to the true religion.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(12) <strong>Shields.<\/strong>The targets of <span class='bible'>2Ch. 9:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Made them exceeding strong.<\/strong><em>Strengthened them<\/em> (the same word as fortified in <span class='bible'>2Ch. 11:11<\/span>) <em>very abundantly<\/em> (<em>lharbh m<\/em><em>e<\/em><em>d<\/em>)<em>.<\/em> A form of words only used by the chronicler. (See <span class='bible'>2Ch. 16:8<\/span>; and comp. <span class='bible'>Neh. 6:18<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having Judah and Benjamin on his side.<\/strong>Literally, <em>and he had<\/em> (or, <em>there fell to him<\/em>)<em> Judah and Benjamin.<\/em> A definition of Rehoboams territory. (Comp. <span class='bible'>2Ch. 10:17<\/span>.)<\/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 11:12 And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 12. <strong> And made them exceeding strong.<\/strong> ] But sin was at the bottom, and blew them up: their iniquity was their ruin, as <span class='bible'>Eze 18:30<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>he put shields: 2Ch 26:14, 2Ch 26:15, 2Ch 32:5, 2Sa 13:19, 2Sa 13:22 <\/p>\n<p>having Judah: 2Ch 11:1 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 49:8 &#8211; thy hand 2Ki 9:32 &#8211; Who is on my side 2Ch 17:2 &#8211; placed forces 2Ch 17:19 &#8211; put in 2Ch 33:14 &#8211; put<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side. 12. having Judah and Benjamin on his side ] Render, And so Judah and Benjamin became his. Rehoboam&rsquo;s fortresses (which were scattered all over the country and were not placed on the borders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-1112\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 11:12&#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-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","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=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}