Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 34:26

Charles Ellicott Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:26

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:26

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard," — 2 Chronicles 34:26 (ASV)

To inquire of the Lord. —Strictly, through the Lord. Kings has the accusative.

Against this place. —Kings adds, that it should become an astonishment and a curse.

And humbled yourself before me. —Not in Kings. A characteristic repetition.

And weep. —Shorter form of the verb; a correction of Kings (wattçbk for wattebkeh).

I. —Emphatic. (Kings has the longer form ‘anokî for our ‘anî.)

Says the Lord.Is the utterance of Jehovah (ne’ûm Iahweh).

Grave. —Hebrew, graves. (Compare 2 Chronicles 16:14.)

And upon the inhabitants of the same. —Added by the chronicler.