2 Chronicles 23:15

The contents of this chapter are the same with 2 Kings 11:4 and need no other explanation than what may be found in the notes there, to which the reader is referred.See Gill on 2 Kings 11:4 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:5 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:6 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:7 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:8 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:9 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:10 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:11 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:12 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:13 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:14 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:15 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:16 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:17 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:18 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:19 . See Gill on 2 Kings 11:20 .

23:12-20 A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance, by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of their health, will not restrain them from vicious courses. See Jehoram here stripped of all his comforts. Thus God plainly showed that the controversy was with him, and his house. He had slain all his brethren to strengthen himself; now, all his sons are slain but one. David's house must not be wholly destroyed, like those of Israel's kings, because a blessing was in it; that of the Messiah. Good men may be afflicted with diseases; but to them they are fatherly chastisements, and by the support of Divine consolations the soul may dwell at ease, even when the body lies in pain. To be sick and poor, sick and solitary, but especially to be sick and in sin, sick and under the curse of God, sick and without grace to bear it, is a most deplorable case. Wickedness and profaneness make men despicable, even in the eyes of those who have but little religion.

15 . they laid hands on her ] R.V. they made way for her . and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they etc.] R.V. and she went to the entry of the horse gate to the king’s house: and they etc. the horse gate ] Perhaps the “gate of the foundation” ( 2 Chronicles 23:5 , note). 2 Chronicles 23:15

(15) So they laid hands on her. —Rather, And they made way for her on both sides. LXX., καὶ ἔδωκαν αὐτῇ ἄνεσιν . Syriac, “And they made room for her.” To the entering of the horse gate.—Kings reads: “And she went by the way of the entry of the horses into the king’s house.” Syriac, “And she entered into the way of the entry of the horses, and was killed there.”

14, 15. Slay her not in the house of the Lord … and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there—The high priest ordered her immediately to be taken out of the temple grounds and put to death. "And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain" (2Ki 11:16). "Now, we are not to suppose that horses came into [the king's house] of residence, but into the king's (horses') house or hippodrome (the gate of the king's mules) [Josephus], he had built for them on the southeast of the temple, in the immediate vicinity of the horse gate in the valley of Kedron—a valley which was at that time a kind of desecrated place by the destruction of idols and their appurtenances" (2Ki 23:2, 6, 12) [Barclay, City of the Great King].

Slaughter of Athaliah, as in 2 Kings 11:13-16 . In 2 Chronicles 23:13 of the Chronicle, the statement that the assembled people played on instruments is expanded by the addition, "and singing with instruments of song, and proclaiming aloud to praise," i.e., and praising. ויּוצא, 2 Chronicles 23:14 , is an orthographical error for ויצו (Kings).

Vfe I. Firft, I would exhort the Children to confider the Dignity that God hath put upon JefusChrift their Saviour ; for by how much God hath caird his Son to Offices and Places of Truft, by fo much be bath heap'd Dignities upon him. 'IHs faid of Mordecai^ 1 hat he was next to the Krhg Ahafuerus ; And what then ? Why then the Greatncfsof MorJffc/t; and his high Advance mud be written in the Bo( k of the Chronicles of the Kings of A^rV/^ and Perfia^ Eft\\. \o. \, X, V>^ be end bis Fame nughi not be b\xmdTvc:tfe^^'^'