12<\/strong>. left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive<\/em> ] R.V. did the children of Judah carry away alive<\/strong>. The “left alive” of the A.V. is misleading, for it suggests that they were prisoners captured in the same battle in which the first ten thousand were slain; a comparison of Kings however suggests that they were the whole (or part) of the garrison of Sela, which fortress was captured by Amaziah after his victory in the valley of salt.<\/p>\n the rock<\/em> ] R.V. mg. Sela<\/strong>; cp. 2Ki 14:7<\/span> and Jer 49:16<\/span>. Sela is usually identified with Petra ( Bdeker<\/em>, p. 146 ff.), but the identification is by no means certain.<\/p>\n The top of the rock – <\/B>Rather, the height of Selah (or, Petra), near which the battle was probably fought. On the cruel features of the Edomite wars, see 1Ki 11:15<\/span>; Eze 25:12<\/span>; Oba 1:14<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive<\/strong>,…. The rest of the army of the Edomites, which amounted to the same number, fell into their hands, and they took them, and carried them off:<\/p>\n and brought them unto the top of the rock<\/strong>; very probably the same on which the city Petra, the metropolis of Edom, was built, called also Selah, 2Ki 14:7<\/span> both which names signify a rock. Josephus g calls it the great rock in Arabia; that is, Arabia Petraea:<\/p>\n and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they were broken all in pieces<\/strong>; burst asunder, bones broken, and limb from limb separated. This sort of punishment was inflicted by the Romans on various malefactors, by casting them down from the Tarpeian rock h; and in Greece, according to the Delphian law, such as were guilty of sacrilege were led to a rock, and cast down headlong from thence i: and now in Turkey, at a place called Constantine, a town situated on the top of a great rock, the usual way of executing great criminals is by pushing them from off the cliff k; see Lu 4:29<\/span>, but to use captives taken in war after this manner seems cruel and barbarous; and what should be the reason of such treatment of them is not easy to say.<\/p>\n g Antiqu. l. 9. c. 9. sect. 1. h Liv. Hist. l. 6. c. 20. Patercul. Hist. Roman. l. 2. Aurel. Victor. de Vir. Illustr. c. 27, 70. Vid, Rycquium de Capitol. Roman. c. 4. p. 45, &c. i Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 11. c. 5. k Pitt’s Account of the Mahometans, ch. 1. p. 10.<\/p>\n (12) And other ten thousand left alive.<\/strong>Rather, And ten thousand the sons of Judah took alive.<\/em> The LXX. renders well: .<\/em><\/p>\n And brought them unto the top of the rock.<\/strong>Or,<\/strong> of Sela.<\/em> Sela, the crag, was the Edomite capital, known to after ages as Petra, the rock. The Head of Sela may be the name of a cliff overhanging the town. This savage massacre of prisoners is not mentioned in Kings; but it is quite credible, in view of the well-known atrocities of ancient warfare. (Comp. 1Ch. 20:3<\/span>; Psa. 137:9<\/span>; 2Ki. 8:12<\/span>; Amo. 1:11<\/span>; Amo. 1:13<\/span>; 1Ki. 11:15-16<\/span> : Joab cut off every male in Edom.) It is, however, remarkable that the chronicler does not mention the capture of Sela itself. Thenius, therefore, supposes that the statement of this verse is really the result of an attempt to restore an illegible text of 2Ki. 14:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Ch 25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.<\/p>\n Ver. 12. And cast them down from the top.<\/strong> ] See 2Ki 14:7<\/span> .<\/p>\n And other ten thousand: No intimation is given on what account, or on what provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of war was adopted. The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever they had it in their power. <\/p>\n cast them: 2Sa 12:31, 1Ch 20:3 <\/p>\n broken in pieces: 2Ch 20:10, 2Ch 21:8-10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 25:23 – the elder Gen 27:40 – serve 2Ki 14:7 – slew 2Ch 25:15 – which could 2Ch 28:17 – the Edomites Oba 1:3 – thou Luk 4:29 – that<\/p>\n 25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the {i} rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.<\/p>\n (i) In 2Ki 14:7 this rock is called the city Sela.<\/p>\n And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. 12. left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive ] R.V. did the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 25:12”<\/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-11728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728","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=11728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11728"}],"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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