{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/barnes/ch2012.htm","path":"bib/cmt/barnes/ch2012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/barnes/ch2012.htm","text":"Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]\nThis chapter runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference), but considerably enlarges the narrative.\nAll Israel with him - i. e., \"all Judah and Benjamin\" - all the Israelites of those two tribes.\nShishak ... came up ... because they had transgressed - The writer speaks from a divine, not a human, point of view. Shishak's motive in coming up was to help Jeroboam, and to extend his own influence.\ntwelve hundred chariots - This number is not unusnal (compare Exo 14:7; Kg1 10:26). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force of 2,000 chariots (compare the Kg1 20:1 note).\nThe Lubims or \"Libyans\" Dan 11:43, were a people of Africa, distinct from the Egyptians and the Ethiopians dwelling in their immediate neighborhood. They were called Ribu or Libu by the Egyptians. See Gen 10:13.\nSukkiims - This name does not occur elsewhere. The Septuagint, who rendered the word \"Troglodytes,\" regarded the Sukkiim probably as the \"cave-dwellers\" along the western shore of the Red Sea; but the conjecture that the word means \"tent-dwellers\" is plausible, and would point rather to a tribe of Arahs (Scenitae).\nSee 1 the Kings 14:25 note.\nThey said, The Lord is righteous - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them Ch2 12:5.\nCompare the repentance of Ahab (marginal reference) and that of the Ninevites Jon 3:5-10 which produced similar revocations of divine decrees that had been pronounced by the mouth of a prophet.\nSome deliverance - Rather, \"deliverance for a short space\" (see the margin). Because of the repentance, the threat cf immediate destruction was withdrawn; but the menace was still left impending, that the people might be the more moved to contrition and amendment.\nThat they may know my service, and the service of the kingdom - i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.\nHe prepared not his heart ... - See the margin. Rehoboam's sin was want of earnestness and consistency.","title":"Notes on the Bible by Albert Barnes: 2 Chronicles: 2 Chro...","type":"page"}