{"commentary":{"id":"keil-delitzsch","name":"Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary","website":"https://worthy.bible/commentaries/keil-delitzsch-commentary","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","licenseNotes":null,"licenseNotice":null,"englishName":"Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary","language":"eng","textDirection":"rtl","sha256":"bb5cc0f9cfe0a93b3c903bb6972c6bc8c4e9f2bd3be6c2a6d276737cf9c5edce","availableFormats":["json"],"listOfBooksApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/books.json","listOfProfilesApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/profiles.json","numberOfBooks":39,"totalNumberOfChapters":909,"totalNumberOfVerses":6516,"totalNumberOfProfiles":0,"languageName":"English","languageEnglishName":"English"},"book":{"id":"2CH","commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","name":"2 Chronicles","commonName":"2 Chronicles","introduction":"III. History of Solomon's Kingship - 2 Chronicles 1-9\nThe kingship of Solomon centres in the building of the temple of the Lord, and the account of that begins in 2 Chron 2 with a statement of the preparations which Solomon made for the accomplishment of this great work, so much pressed upon him by his father, and concludes in 2 Chron 7 with the answer which the Lord gave to his consecrating prayer in a vision. In 2 Chron 1, before the history of the temple building, we have an account of the sacrifice at Gibeon by which Solomon inaugurated his reign (Ch2 1:1-13), with some short notices of his power and riches (Ch2 1:14-17); and in 2 Chron 8 and 9, after the temple building, we have summary statements about the palaces and cities which he built (Ch2 8:1-11), the arrangement of the regular religious service (Ch2 8:12-16), the voyage to Ophir (Ch2 8:17, Ch2 8:18), the visit of the queen of Sheba (Ch2 9:1-12), his riches and his royal magnificence and glory (2 Chron 9:13-28), with the concluding notices of the duration of his reign, and of his death (Ch2 9:29, Ch2 9:30). If we compare with this the description of Solomon's reign in 1 Kings 1-11, we find that in the Chronicle not only are the narratives of his accession to the throne in consequence of Adonijah's attempted usurpation, and his confirming his kingdom by punishing the revolter (1 Kings 1 and 2), of his marriage to the Egyptian princess (Kg1 3:1, Kg1 3:2), his wise judgment (Kg1 3:16-28), his public officers, his official men, his royal magnificence and glory (1 Kings 4:1-5:14), omitted, but also the accounts of the building of his palace (Kg1 7:1-12), of his idolatry, and of the adversaries who rose against him (1 Kings 11:1-40). On the other hand, the description of the building and consecration of the temple is supplemented by various important details which are omitted from the first book of Kings. Hence it is clear that the author of the Chronicle purposed only to portray more exactly the building of the house of God, and has only shortly touched upon all the other undertakings of this wise and fortunate king. \n","order":14,"numberOfChapters":36,"sha256":"42761404770924f7594f8f058876e63770e6360d12fee954306e1f7d5ecdd709","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":36,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/36.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":36},"totalNumberOfVerses":120},"chapter":{"number":18,"content":[],"introduction":"The prophet Jehu's declaration as to Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab, and Jehoshaphat's further efforts to promote the fear of God and the administration of justice in Judah. - Ch2 19:1-3. Jehu's declaration. Jehoshaphat returned from the war in which Ahab had lost his life, בּשׁלום, i.e., safe, uninjured, to his house in Jerusalem; so that the promise of Micah in Ch2 18:16 was fulfilled also as regards him. But on his return, the seer Jehu, the son of Hanani, who had been thrown into the stocks by Asa (Ch2 16:7.), met him with the reproving word, \"Should one help the wicked, and lovest thou the haters of Jahve!\" (the inf. with ל, as in Ch1 5:1; Ch1 9:25, etc.). Of these sins Jehoshaphat had been guilty. \"And therefore is anger from Jahve upon thee\" (על קצף as in Ch1 27:24). Jehoshaphat had already had experience of this wrath, when in the battle of Ramoth the enemy pressed upon him (Ch2 18:31), and was at a later time to have still further experience of it, partly during his own life, when the enemy invaded his land (2 Chron 20), and when he attempted to re-establish the sea trade with Ophir (Ch2 20:35.), partly after his death in his family (2 Chron 21 and Ch2 22:1-12). \"But,\" continues Jehu, to console him, \"yet there are good things found in thee (cf. Ch2 12:12), for thou hast destroyed the Asheroth...\" אשׁרות = אשׁרים, Ch2 17:6. On these last words, comp. Ch2 12:14 and Ch2 17:4. \n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/18.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":18},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/19.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":19},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/17.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":17},"numberOfVerses":0}