2 Chronicles 13:19 - Exposition

Bethel . Abijah was, perhaps, the rather permitted to take this city as the head-quarters of Jeroboam's irreligious worship. Jeshanah . A place not known elsewhere in Scripture by this name, which by derivation means "old." Grove quotes Josephus ('Ant.,' 14.15.§ 12) as speaking of a place so named, the scene of a battle between Herod and Antigonus's general, Pappus, but Josephus does not assign its site. Ephrain ; or, according to Chethiv, Epron. Grove says that conjecture has identified it with the Ephraim of 2 Samuel 13:23 , with the Ophrah of Joshua 18:23 , and with the Ephraim of John 11:54 ; possibly the modern El-Taiyibeh (Dr. Robinson, 1.44), about five miles from Bethel.