Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"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.