2 Chronicles 21:17 - Exposition

Brake into it ; Hebrew, kal future of בָּקַע (compare the other four significant and expressive occurrences of this exact form, 15:19 ; 2 Samuel 23:16 ; 1 Chronicles 11:18 ; Isaiah 48:21 ). The elementary idea of the root is to divide; and it occurs in one conjugation or another fifty-one times, there being no more typical occurrence than that of Genesis 7:11 . Carried away . The Hebrew uses the word "carried captive" ( וַיִּשְׁבּוּ ); possibly the order of Genesis 7:14 is inadvertently neglected, which puts the living beings before all the substance, or, goods ( כָּל־הָרְכוּשׁ ). His sons also. From 2 Chronicles 24:7 we note that the sons were not punished for their father's sins alone, but for their own. Jehoahaz . This person is called Ahaziah in 2 Chronicles 22:1 (the syllables of the name being reversed) and Azariah in 2 Chronicles 22:6 , which cannot be explained, but must be supposed an error. The Jehoiachin of 2 Chronicles 36:9 is written Jeconiah, or Jechoniah , in 1 Chronicles 3:16 , 1 Chronicles 3:17 ; Coniah in Jeremiah 22:24 , etc.; and Jechoniah in 2 Chronicles 24:1 , etc. The two parts of the word combined in either order make the same meaning. On account of the express mention of the camp in 2 Chronicles 22:1 , some think that the slaughter and the plunder were all such as might have been wrought in the royal quarters there; others that we are to infer the taking by assault of Jerusalem itself and what was therein.