31<\/strong>. saw Jehoshaphat to fight<\/em> ] Render, saw Jehoshaphat, (now they said, It is the king of Israel!) that they turned about against him to fight<\/strong>. The captains of the chariots obeying the orders given them made a circuit in order to reach the rear of the Israelite army where Jehoshaphat was stationed. The same fact is described in 1 Kin. by the phrase, they turned aside<\/em>. The A.V. of Chronicles they compassed about him<\/em> (i.e. “surrounded him”; cp. 2Ch 21:9<\/span>) is a possible, but less probable, interpretation.<\/p>\n and God moved them<\/em> to depart from him<\/em> ] These words anticipate 2Ch 18:32<\/span> and are not found in 1 Kin. Probably a panic fell on the Syrian charioteers when they found themselves far from the rest of the Syrian army and yet not near the king of Israel.<\/p>\n And the Lord helped him … – <\/B>There is nothing correspondent to this passage in Kings. It is a pious reflection on the part of the author, who traces all deliverance to its real divine source.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 31<\/span>. But Jehoshaphat cried out<\/B><\/I>] “Jehoshaphat cried, and the WORD of the Lord brought him assistance.” – Targum<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n [See comments on 2Ch 18:2]<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Ch 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.<\/p>\n Ver. 31. Therefore they compassed about him.<\/strong> ] This great strait Jehoshaphat cast himseff into; as likewise the valiant Hunniades did, at the battle of Varna, where he was worsted, and afterwards taken prisoner by Dracula, for joining with that perjured Popish king of Hungary. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the Lord helped him.<\/strong> ] See 1Ki 22:32<\/span> , where yet this precious passage is not; but is here added by the penman of this book, who relateth things formerly set down, but oft with usury.<\/p>\n the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. <\/p>\n helped him: i.e. Jehoshaphat, for Jehovah was his Covenant God. <\/p>\n God moved them. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. He stood, to the Syrians, only in the relation of the Creator to His creatures. <\/p>\n Jehoshaphat: 2Ch 13:14, 2Ch 14:11, Exo 14:10, Psa 116:1, Psa 116:2, 2Co 1:9, 2Co 1:10 <\/p>\n the Lord: 2Ch 26:7, Psa 34:7, Psa 46:1, Psa 46:11, Psa 94:17, Psa 118:13 <\/p>\n God moved them: Ezr 1:1, Ezr 7:27, Neh 1:11, Pro 16:7, Pro 21:1 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ki 8:44 – shall pray 1Ki 22:32 – Jehoshaphat 2Ki 8:28 – he went 1Ch 5:20 – for they cried 2Ch 6:34 – they pray 2Ch 18:1 – joined affinity 2Ch 19:1 – in peace 2Ch 22:5 – Ramothgilead Pro 16:1 – preparations<\/p>\n 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat {t} cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.<\/p>\n (t) He cried to the Lord by acknowledging his fault in going with this wicked king to war against the word of the Lord by his prophet and also by desiring mercy for the same.<\/p>\n And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him. 31. saw Jehoshaphat to fight ] Render, saw Jehoshaphat, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 18:31”<\/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-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","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=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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