2 Chronicles 21:12-15
am 3116, bc 888 a writing "Which was writ before his assumption." 2Kgs 2:1; Jer 36:2, Jer 36:23, Jer 36:28-32; Ezek 2:9-10; Dan 5:5, Dan 5:25-29 Elijah the prophet If the account of the translation of Elijah be given in the order in which it happened, then it occurred in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram. Hence, it is probable that he wrote it before his assumption, and left it to be delivered by Elisha or one of the prophets. 2Kgs 2:11 in the ways of Jehoshaphat 2Chr 17:3-4; 1Kgs 22:43 in the ways of Asa 2Chr 14:2-5; 1Kgs 15:11 in the way 1Kgs 16:25, 1Kgs 16:30-33 a whoring 2Chr 21:11; Exod 34:15; Deut 31:16; 2Kgs 9:22; Jer 3:8-9 hast slain 2Chr 21:4; Gen 4:10-12, Gen 42:21-22; Judg 9:56-57; 1Kgs 2:31-33; Isa 26:21; Hab 2:12; 1John 3:12 plague Heb. stroke, Lev 26:21 thy people Many of the people had concurred in Jehoram's idolatry, and some of them must have been instruments in his base, unnatural murders; they were therefore joined in his punishment, and he suffered by the loss of his subjects. Hos 5:11; Mic 6:16 thy children Exod 20:5 by disease This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa. 2Chr 21:18-19; Num 5:27; Deut 28:61; Acts 12:23 thy bowels fall Ps 109:18; Acts 1:18 the sickness 2Chr 21:18; Deut 28:27, Deut 28:37, Deut 28:59, Deut 28:67
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