The author of Chronicles notes that Amaziah’s obstinacy, and his consequent defeat and captivity, were judgments upon him for an idolatry into whic…

To their tents. — Hebrew text: to his tent; so too the Septuagint and Syriac. Hebrew margin: to his tents; so to…

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel
Could not face them; but, as Josephus ^F4 says, a sudden fear…

For some time after the division of the kingdoms, Judah suffered much from the enmity of Israel. After Asa's time, it suffered more by the friendsh…