Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Is not Jehovah your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Jehovah, and before his people." — 1 Chronicles 22:18 (ASV)
Is not the Lord your God with you? —The proof appears in what follows.
And has he not? —Rather, and he has given you rest (1 Chronicles 22:9).
He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand. —The surrounding people, whose reduction is described in 1 Chronicles 18-20 (Compare to Joshua 2:24 for the phrase).
And the land is subdued before the Lord ... —The chronicler, or his authority, thinks of passages like Numbers 32:22; Numbers 32:29, and Joshua 18:1.