Abia’s reign: his victory over Jeroboam.
Abias maketh warre agaynst Ieroboam. 4. exhorteth the people of Israel for iustice, and religions sake to returne to him. 13. In the meane time Ieroboam inuironeth him with forces, but by Gods assistance Abias preuaileth. 21. and reigneth securely.
1In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.Anno diciottesimo del regno di Geroboam, Abia regnò in Giuda.IN the eightenth yeare of king Ieroboam, reigned Abias ouer Iuda.Anno octavodecimo regis Jeroboam, regnavit Abia super Judam. 2Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia and Jeroboam.Tre anni regnò in Gerusalemme. Sua madre ebbe nome Michaia figliuola di Uriel di Gabaa. E fu guerra tra Abia, e Geroboamo.Three yeares reigned he in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Michaia, the daughter of Vriel of Gabaa: there was warre betwen Abias and Ieroboam.Tribus annis regnavit in Jerusalem, nomenque matris ejus Michaia filia Uriel de Gabaa: et erat bellum inter Abiam et Jeroboam. 3And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred thousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most valiant for war.E Abia avendo mossa la guerra, e avendo quattrocento mila uomini valorosissimi, e scelti; Geroboamo dall'altra parte mise in ordine un esercito di ottocento mila uomini scelti, e fortissimi nel mestiero delle armi.And when Abias had begun battel, and had most warlike men, & of chosen ones four hundreth thousand: Ieroboam put his armie in aray on the contrarie side, eight hundreth thousand men, who them selues also were chosen men, and most valiant to battels.Cumque iniisset Abia certamen, et haberet bellicosissimos viros, et electorum quadringenta millia: Jeroboam instruxit econtra aciem octingenta millia virorum, qui et ipsi electi erant, et ad bella fortissimi. 4And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and said: Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:Abia adunque si piantò sul monte Semeron, che è nella tribù di Ephraim, e disse: Ascolta tu Geroboam, e tutto Israele:Abias therfore stood vpon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and sayd: Heare Ieroboam, and al Israel:Stetit ergo Abia super montem Semeron, qui erat in Ephraim, et ait: Audi, Jeroboam, et omnis Israël. 5Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the kingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?Ignorate voi forse, come il Signore Dio d'Israele diede per sempre il regno d'Israele a David, e a' suoi figliuoli con patto inviolabile?Are you ignorant that our Lord the God of Israel gaue the kingdom to Dauid ouer Israel for euer, to him and his children as a couenant of salt?Num ignoratis quod Dominus Deus Israël dederit regnum David super Israël in sempiternum, ipsi et filiis ejus in pactum salis ?
6And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.E come si levò su Geroboam figliuolo di Nabath, servo di Salomone figliuolo di David: e si ribellò contro il suo signore.And there rose vp Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, the seruant of Salomon the sonne of Dauid: and rebelled agaynst his lord.Et surrexit Jeroboam filius Nabat, servus Salomonis filii David, et rebellavit contra dominum suum. 7And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.E si unirono con lui uomini vanissimi, figliuoli di Belial, e supplantarono Roboamo figliuolo di Salomone. Or Roboamo era inesperto, e di poco cuore, e non potè resistere ad essi.And there were gathered to him al the most vayne men, and the children of Belial: and they preuayled agaynst Roboam the sonne of Salomon: moreouer Roboam was rude, and of a fearful hart, and could not resist them.Congregatique sunt ad eum viri vanissimi, et filii Belial, et prævaluerunt contra Roboam filium Salomonis: porro Roboam erat rudis, et corde pavido, nec potuit resistere eis. 8And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for gods.Adesso pertanto voi dite, che avete forze da sottrarvi al regno del Signore posseduto da lui per mezzo dei figliuoli di David, e avete turba grande di popolo, e i vitelli d'oro fatti a voi da Geroboam per vostri dei.Now therfore you say that you are able to resist the kingdom of our Lord, which he possesseth by the children of Dauid, and you haue a great multitude of people, and golden calues, which Ieroboam hath made you for goddes.Nunc ergo vos dicitis quod resistere possitis regno Domini, quod possidet per filios David, habetisque grandem populi multitudinem, atque vitulos aureos quos fecit vobis Jeroboam in deos. 9And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of the herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no gods.E avete discacciati i sacerdoti del Signore, figliuoli d'Aaronne, e i Leviti: e vi siete creati de' sacerdoti, come tutte le genti della terra: venga chi si sia, e consagri la sua mano immolando un giovine toro, e sette arieti, egli è sacerdote di quelli, che non son dei.And you haue cast out the Priestes of of our Lord, the children of Aaron, and the Leuites: and you haue made you priestes, as al the peoples of the earth: who soeuer shal come & consecrate his hand in a bullock of oxen, and in seuen rammes, is made the priest of them that are not goddes,Et ejecistis sacerdotes Domini, filios Aaron, atque Levitas, et fecistis vobis sacerdotes sicut omnes populi terrarum: quicumque venerit, et initiaverit manum suam in tauro de bobus, et in arietibus septem, fit sacerdos eorum qui non sunt dii.
10But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their order.Ma il Signore nostro egli è Dio, e noi non lo abbandoniamo; e al Signore servono i sacerdoti della stirpe d'Aaronne, e i Leviti nelle cose, che toccano ad essi:But our Lord is God, whom we forsake not, and the Priestes do minister to our Lord of the children of Aaron, and the Leuites are in their order.Noster autem Dominus, Deus est, quem non relinquimus, sacerdotesque ministrant Domino, de filiis Aaron, et Levitæ sunt in ordine suo: 11And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken.Ed eglino offeriscono olocausti al Signore mattina, e sera, e i timiami manipolati secondo il prescritto della legge, e si espongono i pani sopra una mensa mondissima, ed abbiam presso di noi il candeliere d'oro colle sue lampane, che si accendono sempre la sera: perocché noi osserviamo i precetti del Signore Dio nostro, cui voi avete abbandonato.Holocaustes also they do offer to our Lord, euerie day morning and euening, and incense made according to the preceptes of the law, and the loaues are set forth on a most cleane table, and there is with vs the golden condlesticke, and the lampes therof, that they may be lighted alwaies at euening: for we keepe the preceptes of the Lord our God, whom you haue forsaken.holocausta quoque offerunt Domino per singulos dies mane et vespere, et thymiama juxta legis præcepta confectum, et proponuntur panes in mensa mundissima, estque apud nos candelabrum aureum, et lucernæ ejus, ut accendantur semper ad vesperam: nos quippe custodimus præcepta Domini Dei nostri, quem vos reliquistis. 12Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you.Per la qual cosa il condottiero del nostro esercito egli è Dio, e i suoi sacerdoti dan fiato alle trombe, e le suonano contro di voi. Figliuoli d'Israele, non vogliate combattere contro il Signore Dio de' padri vostri, perchè a voi ciò non torna.Therfore in our host God is the prince, and his Priestes, which sound with trumpettes, and resound agaynst you: children of Israel sight not agaynst our Lord the God of your fathers, because it is not expedient for you.Ergo in exercitu nostro dux Deus est, et sacerdotes ejus, qui clangunt tubis, et resonant contra vos: filii Israël, nolite pugnare contra Dominum Deum patrum vestrorum, quia non vobis expedit. 13While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he encompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.Mentre egli così parlava, Geroboam di dietro gli tendeva insidie. E stando in faccia a' nemici, andava cingendo Giuda col suo esercito.He speaking these thinges, Ieroboam endeuoured to entrappe him behind. And when he stood ouer agaynst the enemies, he compassed Iuda vnwitting with his armie.Hæc illo loquente, Jeroboam retro moliebatur insidias. Cumque ex adverso hostium staret, ignorantem Judam suo ambiebat exercitu.
14And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them both before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests began to sound with the trumpets.E Giuda volgendosi indietro vide, come egli era assalito di fronte, e alle spalle, e alzò le grida al Signore: e i sacerdoti principiarono a sonare le trombe.And Iudas looking backe, saw the battel at hand before and behind, and cryed to our Lord: and the Priestes begane to sound with trumpettes.Respiciensque Judas, vidit instare bellum ex adverso et post tergum, et clamavit ad Dominum, ac sacerdotes tubis canere cœperunt. 15And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted, God terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and Juda.E tutti gli uomini di Giuda diedero un grido: e al rimbombo delle lor voci Dio atterrì Geroboam, e tutto Israele, che assaliva Abia, e Giuda.And al the men of Iuda made a shout: and behold they crying, God terrified Ieroboam, and al Israel that stood agaynst Abias and Iuda.Omnesque viri Juda vociferati sunt: et ecce illis clamantibus, perterruit Deus Jeroboam, et omnem Israël qui stabat ex adverso Abia et Juda. 16And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hand.E i figliuoli d'Israele voltaron le spalle a Giuda, e Dio gli abbandonò nelle mani di lui.And the children of Israel sled from Iuda, and our Lord deliuered them into their hand.Fugeruntque filii Israël Judam, et tradidit eos Deus in manu eorum. 17And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.Abia adunque, e il suo popolo ne fecero gran macello: e delle loro ferite morirono dalla parte d'Israele cinque cento mila uomini di valore.Abias therfore and his people stroke them with a great slaughter, and there fel wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand valiant men.Percussit ergo eos Abia et populus ejus plaga magna: et corruerunt vulnerati ex Israël quingenta millia virorum fortium. 18And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.E restarono abbattuti in quel tempo i figliuoli d'Israele, e grandissimo vigore ripresero i figliuoli di Giuda, perchè aveano sperato nel Signore Dio de' padri loro.And the children of Israel were humbled, at that time, and the children of Iuda excedingly encouraged because they had trusted in our Lord the God of their fathers.Humiliatique sunt filii Israël in tempore illo, et vehementissime confortati filii Juda, eo quod sperassent in Domino Deo patrum suorum.
19And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her daughters.E Abia inseguì Geroboam che fuggiva, e prese le sue città, Bethel, e i luoghi di sua dipendenza, e Jesana, e i luoghi di sua dipendenza, e anche Ephron colle sue adiacenze.And Abias pursewed Ieroboam •ieing, and he tooke his cities, Bethel and her daughters, and Iesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her daughters.Persecutus est autem Abia fugientem Jeroboam, et cepit civitates ejus, Bethel et filias ejus, et Jesana cum filiabus suis, Ephron quoque et filias ejus: 20And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.E Geroboam non potè più far testa, mentre visse Abia: e fu percosso dal Signore, e morì.Neither was Ieroboam able to resist anie more, in the daies of Abias: whom our Lord stroke, and he died.nec valuit ultra resistere Jeroboam in diebus Abia: quem percussit Dominus, et mortuus est. 21But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.Abia adunque, assodato il suo impero, prese quattordici mogli: e generò ventidue figliuoli, e sedici figliuole.Therfore Abias, his empite being strengthened, tooke fourtene wiues: and he begat two and twentie sonnes, and sixtene daughters.Igitur Abia, confortato imperio suo, accepit uxores quatuordecim: procreavitque viginti duos filios, et sedecim filias. 22And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.Il rimanente poi delle geste di Abia, e de' suoi costumi, e delle sue opere sta minutissimamente descritto nel libro di Addo profeta.But the rest of the wordes of Abias, and of his waies and wordes, are writen diligently in the Booke of Addo the Prophete.Reliqua autem sermonum Abia, viarumque et operum ejus, scripta sunt diligentissime in libro Addo prophetæ.
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Year of the World 3046, Year before Christ 958.; 3 Kings xv.
Year of the World 3047.
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Challoner
Michaia, alias Maacha. Her father had also two names; viz., Absalom or Abessalom, and Uriel. (Challoner)
Tirinus
Many had two names. (Tirinus)
Of Gabaa, may refer to the women.
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Calmet
War. The author of the new edition of St. Jerome mentions two manuscripts and there are several printed editions, which reduce these numbers to one half. Castalio adopts this correction, asserting that the Greek and Josephus are on his side, which is not true. (Calmet)
Kennicott
We must however observe, that there is some doubt with respect to Josephus, (Haydock) as some of the oldest Latin editions acknowledge the smaller numbers; and Vignoles (I. 29.) conjectures, that the Greek copies did the same formerly, since Aborbanel "accuses Josephus of having made Jeroboam's loss no more than 50,000, contrary to the Hebrew text," ver. 17. This learned author is of opinion, that the Jews sometimes expressed their numbers by figures, (Kennicott) analogous to those which the later Arabs borrowed from the Indians; though, in more ancient times, the letters of the alphabet had been used. Both customs seem to have prevailed; (Erpenius) and this may account for many variations, as the omission of a single cypher, resembling our period (.), might easily occasion much confusion. Kennicott (Diss. i., and ii.) seems to suspect, that the ancient versions have been made to agree with the corrupted Hebrew, no less than Josephus; and that many of the large numbers, recorded in Scripture, (which might countenance what we here read) are incorrect. See 2 Paralipomenon 17:13, 19., and 14:8., comp.[compare] with 16:1., and 25:6., comp.[compare] with 4 Kings 13:7. It is certain (Haydock) many Latin manuscripts confirm the edition of Sixtus V, which has the smaller numbers; and this is the case with most of the older manuscripts and editions. How St. Jerome expressed it, we cannot easily determine. The editor of his works has been guided chiefly by the Memmian canon. See 2 Kings 15:7. Lyranus quotes St. Jerome, as reading 50,000; (ver. 7) and it is so expressed in the Paris editions of 1534 and (Haydock) 1546, of the Hebrew questions on Paralipomenon. But Erasmus doubts whether this be the genuine work of St. Jerome, (Kennicott) or in the state in which he left it. If we consult the more ancient manuscripts and editions, prior to that of Clement VIII, we shall allow that they are more favourable to the smaller numbers, on this occasion; and are more likely to exhibit the pure version of the holy doctor, (Haydock) as the later editions have had "the Hebrew fountains" also in view. (Kennicott)
If however we adhere to the received numbers, (Haydock) we must remember that kings, at that time, led forth to battle all their subjects who were able to bear arms. Under Moses there were 600,000. David found 1,100,000 in Israel, and 470,000 in Juda, exclusive of Levi and Benjamin; (chap. 21:5.) or, at least, as it is expressed [in] 2 Kings 24:9., in all, 1,300,000. Asa was at the head of 580,000, 2 Paralipomenon 14:8., etc.
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Calmet
Semeron, on which Samaria was afterwards built. Hebrew reads, "Mount Tsemaraim." There was a city of this name in Benjamin. (Calmet)
Haydock
But this was a mount. Hebrew, "in Mount Ephraim." (Haydock)
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Worthington
A covenant of salt. That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Numbers 18:19. (Challoner) (Worthington)
Calmet
It seemed this covenant was to be inviolable; and it had its effect, notwithstanding the crimes of many of the kings. The Arabs still regard the partaking of bread and salt as the most sacred covenant. (Calmet)
Haydock
"The ancients prayed when they placed salt before their guests, that, as salt partook of two natures, so they might be cemented together in concord." (Tzetzez on Lycoph.) (Haydock)
Abia speaks with much prudence, and with an air of piety, though his heart was corrupt, 3 Kings 15:3. That of his adversary was still more so; and God granted victory to the former, to reward even the appearance of virtue in the king, and the sincere piety of some of his followers.
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Calmet
Vain. The same term is used as in Matthew 5:22. (Calmet)
Haydock
Rekim, "stupid men." (Haydock)
Septuagint, "pestiferous." Syriac, "impious."
Haydock
Heart. Protestants, "young and tender-hearted." (Haydock)
Calmet
But Roboam was not very young; (3 Kings 14:21.) and we may adhere to the Vulgate. (Calmet)
Haydock
Septuagint, "he was a youth, and timid." (Haydock)
Calmet
Abia speaks of his father with little respect, and seems to have forgotten that he had laid down his arms in obedience to God's order. (Calmet)
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Haydock
And golden. These idols will enervate and render your great numbers useless. (Haydock)
Calmet
We have a just cause and religion is on our side. (Calmet)
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Calmet
Rams. These were sacrificed by the false priests, who acted in a very different manner from those of the Lord, Leviticus viii., and ix. (Calmet)
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Salien
Table. It is hence inferred, that Sesac had only left one: (Lyranus; Torniel.) but this does not follow. (Calmet) (Salien)
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Menochius
Trumpets, to invoke God's aid, Numbers 10:9. (Menochius)
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Haydock
Terrified. Septuagint, "struck;" God caused the victory to declare in favour of those who were only half the number. (Haydock)
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Hudson's Josephus
Five. Some Latin editions have 50,000, (Calmet) which number is found in some manuscripts of Epiphanius. (Hudson's Josephus)
Haydock
Hentenius has the same, and only remarks five manuscripts which had the greater number. See ver. 3. (Haydock)
Menochius
We do not read of such a slaughter in any one battle. But Israel made no resistance, and God assisted the four hundred thousand. (Menochius)
Haydock
Valiant. Protestants, "chosen." See chap 14:13. (Haydock)
Du Hamel
So many were either slain or wounded. (Du Hamel)
Haydock
Protestants intimate all were "slain." (Haydock)
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Menochius
Bethel, the head of the calf worship; though Abulensis thinks it was another city, otherwise it would not have been spared. The calf continued there till the reign of Jehu, 4 Kings 10:29. (Menochius)
Eusebius † AD 339
Jesana; perhaps Senna, (Numbers 34:4.; Calmet) seven miles north of Jericho. (Eusebius)
The versions read differently.
Calmet
Ephron. The Masorets have Ephraim. (Calmet)
Haydock
Protestants, "Ephraim, with the towns thereof." (Haydock)
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Calmet
Him. Some think Abia, as Jeroboam survived him two years: but others, (Calmet) with greater probability, (Du Hamel) suppose that the latter is here specified, and that he fell a victim to the divine wrath, as the prophet Ahias had foretold. (Calmet)
Salien
(Salien, the year of the world 3081.)
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Haydock
Works. Protestants, "sayings are written in the story of the prophets Iddo." (Haydock)
Calmet
Modross properly means "researches," and was the title of the genealogical work of this prophet, from which this account is probably taken, 2 Paralipomenon 12:15. (Calmet)
Menochius
The entire work is not extant. (Menochius)
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Michaia.... Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom, or Abessalom, and Uriel.
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A covenant of salt.... That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Num. 18.19.
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Concordance 3. Reg. 15
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A firme and perpetual couenant. Num. 18. v. 19.
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Tertullian † AD 220 Ad Nationes 1.13
… By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers. For the Jewish feasts on the Sabbath and “the Purification,” and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps,
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2. MICHAIA DAUGHTER OF URIEL. — See what is said III Reg. cap. xv, vers. 2.
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4. ABIA STOOD UPON THE MOUNTAIN, — so that his speech might be heard by all the Israelites encamped round about. And this speech of his is pious and efficacious, by which he endeavors to persuade them by many reasons to abandon the new religion and king, and return to the ancestral God and the kingdom of David in Jerusalem: and especially because he himself has God fighting for him, whom they, being idolaters, have against them, as if to say, You act madly if you wish to fight against God. Read it and weigh it.
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5. IN A COVENANT OF SALT, — that is, in a firm, stable and eternal covenant. For salt is a thing that preserves things whole and safe from decay: hence salt is a symbol of eternity, as I said Levit. cap. II, vers. 12. Our Sanchez adds, and says: It is established that this covenant of the kingdom in the family of David is perpetually conditioned, namely if the progeny of David keeps the covenant, Psalm. LXXXVIII, 30. Therefore God gave the kingdom of David to the house with a grain of salt, namely if it does not fail from the faith, which it ought to keep whole, or if the progeny of David itself applies salt, and does not permit the struck covenant to be corrupted and to decay.
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9. WHOSOEVER SHALL CONSECRATE (The Hebrew and Septuagint, shall fill) HIS HAND IN A BULL OF THE HERD (Hebrew, in a young bull son of cattle) AND IN SEVEN RAMS, BECOMES A PRIEST OF THEIRS WHO ARE NOT GODS, — as if to say, As you have false Gods, so also you have false priests; for God did not choose them, as He chose Aaron and his descendants; but whosoever, however vile and wicked, by his own hands offering a bull and seven rams shall consecrate his hands, by this very fact becomes a priest of idols, namely of golden calves. Note: to fill the hand, in Hebrew is the same as to consecrate a priest. For by filling the hand with victims, and offering them with his own hands, he consecrated himself a priest. For by this rite the consecration of a priest was made, as is evident Levit. VIII.
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11. THE LOAVES ARE SET FORTH ON A MOST CLEAN TABLE, etc. — From this place and the following, where mention is made of only one table and one candlestick, Torniellus gathers that Sesac, king of Egypt, when he plundered the treasures of the temple, from the ten tables and ten candlesticks which King Solomon had placed in the temple, left behind only one table and one candlestick, and that the Jews were thereafter content with this, just as they had been before the temple was erected by Solomon.
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20. WHOM THE LORD SMOTE, AND HE DIED. — Whom, namely Jeroboam, for the discourse immediately preceding was concerning him; for Jeroboam died miserably after two or three years. But the Hebrews in the Seder Olam understand not Jeroboam, but Abia himself, whom they say was ungrateful to God, and did not render worthy thanks for so great a victory, and therefore died shortly after, and reigned only three years, and died two years before Jeroboam. But this does not sufficiently agree with what is immediately subjoined: "Therefore Abia, his kingdom being strengthened, took fourteen wives," etc.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
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2. M., consort of Rehoboam king of Judah and mother of Abijah (I Kings 15:2; II Chron. 11:20-22), called the "daughter" of Absalom: she was in reality his granddaughter, since Absalom had only one daughter (II Sam. 14:27) named Tamar (her father, according to II Chron. 13:2, was called Uriel, of Gibeah: the name of M. is altered to Michaiah).
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… The numbers seem enormous (I Chron. 22, 14; 29, 4; II Chron. 13, 3; 17, 14, 8; etc.). …
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… Before giving battle to Jeroboam, A. harangued the opposing ranks, affirming the inalienability of the rights of the house of David to reign over all the people of God (II Chron. 13:4-12). On the occasion of this war, A. made a vow, later fulfilled by Asa his son with rich gifts to the temple (I Kings 15:15; II Chron. 13:16-19). A. had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. …
… The Davidic dynasty was willed by the consent of the people, but first by God (II Par. 13, 4-12; 23, 3; 33, 7-8 etc.) as a reward for the "house" built for God by David-Solomon (I Par. 17, 7-27; 22, 10; 28, 6 ff.; II Par. 6, 7-11, 16 f.; 33, 7-8). God therefore, insofar as He …
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… Eating salt is a symbol of union and fidelity (Num. 18:19 and II Par. 13:5) both among the Hebrews and among the Eastern peoples still today.
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… destination: "son of b." (cf. "son of iniquity": II Sam. 3, 34; 7, 10; Ps. 88, 23; "son of death": I Sam. 20, 31; 26, 16; II Sam. 12, 5); Deut. 13, 13 (Heb. 14); Iudc. 19, 22; 20, 13; I Sam. 1, 16; 2, 12; 10, 27; 25, 17; I Reg. 21, 10, 13; II Par. 13, 7, and "man of b." ('īl b. or hab-b. with the article [only 3 times]; cf. "man of death":
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… But if the tribe fell into idolatry, many of its members remained faithful to Yahweh (cf. II Chron. 13:8-11; 30:1, 10, 18). In the time of Hezekiah the multitudes of the faithful, after having fulfilled their religious duties in the temple of Jerusalem, invaded the two southern provinces …
13:9
Levites (Heb. Lēwī, pl. Lēwījīm; Gr. Lēwījī, pl. -ai)
… Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun, mentioned also as authors of psalms (Ps. 50, 62, 73-83, 88; cf. 89). At the time of the apostasy of the north the Levites again gave proof of Yahwistic fidelity, for which they were driven out by Jeroboam (II Par. 11:13-14; 13:9; I Reg. 12:21); the descendants of certain priests, who on that occasion and in the following decades had accommodated themselves to idolatry, were later degraded to simple Levites …
13:16
… ranks, affirming the inalienability of the rights of the house of David to reign over all the people of God (II Chron. 13:4-12). On the occasion of this war, A. made a vow, later fulfilled by Asa his son with rich gifts to the temple (I Kings 15:15; II Chron. 13:16-19). A. had 14 wives, 22 sons and 16 daughters. …
13:19
… the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus (Jn. 11:54). It is generally identified with Ophera (Josh. 18:23), with Ephraim near Baal-hazor, where at the time of the sheep-shearing Absalom held a banquet (2 Sam. 13:23), with Ephron occupied by Abijah (2 Chron. 13:19), with Apherema, capital of a district of Samaria in 145 B.C. (1 Macc. 11:24), later occupied by Vespasian. …
13:22
… 16, 11); "words (= deeds) of the kings of Israel" (ibid. 33, 18); it is not certain whether they are the same work, but they are distinguished from the canonical books of Kings; b) midhräism of the books of Kings (ibid. 24, 27) and of Addo the prophet (ibid. 13, 22); c) words of Samuel the seer, of Nathan the prophet, of Gad the seer (I Par. 29, 29); words of Shemaiah the prophet and of Addo the seer (II Par. 12, 15); of Jehu (ibid. 20, 34), …
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Vulgata Clementina · original Douay-Rheims (Douay 1609-10), transcription by EEBO-TCP (CC0) · La Sacra Bibbia, tradotta dalla Volgata da Antonio Martini (1769-1781) (LaParola (laparola.net), Martini OSIS text, Public domain (LaParola's electronic edition marks it 'Dominio pubblico')). Public domain.