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2 Chronicles 16:1 open_in_new
Six and thirtieth] Since, according to 1 Kings 16:8, Baasha did not live until the 36th year of Asa. some have supposed that the six and thirtieth year is reckoned from the revolt of the Ten Tribes.
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2 Chronicles 16:1-14 open_in_new
Reign of Asa (concluded)
This chapter reproduces with some verbal differences 1 Kings 15:17-24, but adds an account of a rebuke received by Asa from the seer Hanani.
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2 Chronicles 16:4 open_in_new
The store cities of Naphtali] LXX suggests that the true reading is 'the surrounding parts of Naphtali.'
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2 Chronicles 16:7 open_in_new
Hanani] Nothing is known of him beyond what is here related, and the fact that he was the father of the prophet Jehu (2 Chronicles 19:2). Because thou hast relied] cp. the similar protests of Isaiah against reliance upon foreign support instead of upon the Lord (Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 31:1). The host of.. Syria] The prophet seems to imply that Asa might have beaten both Israel and Syria, if he had trusted in the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 16:8 open_in_new
Lubims] These were not amongst the forces of Zerah (2 Chronicles 14:9), but those of Shishak (2 Chronicles 12:3).
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2 Chronicles 16:12 open_in_new
Sought not to the Lord] Contrast the conduct of Hezekiah in his sickness: see 2 Kings 20:2.
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2 Chronicles 16:14 open_in_new
A very great burning] i.e. of the spices previously mentioned: cp. Jeremiah 34:5. The bodies of the dead were not ordinarily burnt but buried; the burning of the bodies of Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 31:12) was exceptional.