{"commentary":{"id":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","website":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamieson-Fausset-Brown_Bible_Commentary","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","licenseNotes":null,"licenseNotice":null,"englishName":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","language":"eng","textDirection":"rtl","sha256":"db3d4c8b3c1f32ef9d1430a57392e02bda3a17aac1f9bbe398461de021a3cb13","availableFormats":["json"],"listOfBooksApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/books.json","listOfProfilesApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/profiles.json","numberOfBooks":66,"totalNumberOfChapters":1187,"totalNumberOfVerses":17056,"totalNumberOfProfiles":0,"languageName":"English","languageEnglishName":"English"},"book":{"id":"2CH","commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"2 Chronicles","commonName":"2 Chronicles","introduction":"THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them \"words of days,\" that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, \"of things omitted,\" that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, &c., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of \"the Word of God\" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare Ch2 19:7 with Pe1 1:17; Ch2 24:19-21 with Mat 23:32-35). \n\n\n\nNext: 2 Chronicles Chapter 1\n\n","order":14,"numberOfChapters":36,"sha256":"f291b9c58d20a01f9f30f2a2ba69c9ee6ed83a9049a1f843fb4191bd81958391","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/2CH/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"2CH","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":36,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/2CH/36.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"2CH","chapter":36},"totalNumberOfVerses":257},"chapter":{"number":10,"content":[{"type":"verse","number":3,"content":["And they sent--rather, \"for they had sent,\" &c. This is stated as the reason of Jeroboam's return from Egypt.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"content":["If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them--In the Book of Kings [Kg1 12:7], the words are, \"If thou wilt be a servant unto this people, and wilt serve them.\" The meaning in both is the same, namely, If thou wilt make some reasonable concessions, redress their grievances, and restore their abridged liberties, thou wilt secure their strong and lasting attachment to thy person and government.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"content":["the king hearkened not unto the people, for the cause was of God--Rehoboam, in following an evil counsel, and the Hebrew people, in making a revolutionary movement, each acted as free agents, obeying their own will and passions. But God, who permitted the revolt of the northern tribes, intended it as a punishment of the house of David for Solomon's apostasy. That event demonstrates the immediate superintendence of His providence over the revolutions of kingdoms; and thus it affords an instance, similar to many other striking instances that are found in Scripture, of divine predictions, uttered long before, being accomplished by the operation of human passions, and in the natural course of events.\n\n\n\n\nNext: 2 Chronicles Chapter 11\n\n"]}],"introduction":"REHOBOAM REFUSING THE OLD MEN'S GOOD COUNSEL. (Ch2 10:1-15)\n\nRehoboam went to Shechem--(See on Kg1 12:1). This chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in 1Ki. 12:1-19.\n\n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/2CH/10.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"2CH","chapter":10},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/2CH/11.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"2CH","chapter":11},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/2CH/9.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"2CH","chapter":9},"numberOfVerses":3}