Adaiah Adai'ah Agreement Azariah Azari'ah Captains Commanders Compact Courage Covenant Elishaphat Elisha'phat Entered Heads Hundred Hundreds Ishmael Ish'mael Jehohanan Jehoha'nan Jehoiada Jehoi'ada Jeroham Jero'ham Johanan Maaseiah Ma-asei'ah Obed Seventh Showed Strength Strengthened Strong Taketh Units Zichri Zicri
23:1 And {a} in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
(a) Of the reign of Athaliah or after the death of Ahaziah.
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.
Adaiah Azariah Captains Covenant Hundreds Ishmael Jehohanan Jehoiada Jeroham Johanan Maaseiah Obed Seventh Strengthened Zichri
Adaiah Azariah Captains Covenant Hundreds Ishmael Jehohanan Jehoiada Jeroham Johanan Maaseiah Obed Seventh Strengthened Zichri
