Pridie Roxy
Pridie Roxy's Notes
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Kings 1:17 ESV
"it is said that Jehoram, the son of Ahab and brother of Ahaziah, began to reign over Israel in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat himself. The apparent discrepancy is reconciled by supposing that Jehoshaphat associated his son Jehoram in the kingdom in his seventeenth year, when he was about to enter upon the Syrian war, so that the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat was also the second year of Jehoram" … Expand
Jan 20
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 1 Kings 16:22 ESV
"There is an ominous significance in the terse description of the alternatives of fortune in this internecine struggle, "so Tibni died, and Omri reigned." By comparison of 1Kings 16:23 with 1Kings 16:15, it appears that the struggle had lasted four years." "the hereditary principle being overthrown, the crown appeared to be the legitimate prize of the strongest; and Tibni, who may have occupied a position of importance, or have had, somehow, a considerable following, resolved that Omri should not wear it without a fierce contest" … Expand
Jan 14
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Chronicles 18:33 ESV
"A certain man.--Josephus says, "a young man named Naaman." (Comp. 2Kings 5:1 : "because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria.")"
Jan 4
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 1 Kings 20:35-37 ESV
"the great lesson he had to convey, not to the king alone, but to the prophetic order and to the whole country, the lesson most necessary in that lawless age, was that of implicit unquestioning obedience to the Divine law. Ahab had just transgressed that law. He had "let go a man whom God had appointed to utter destruction;" he had heaped honours on the oppressor of his country, and in gratifying benevolent impulses had ignored the will and counsel of God. But he must be taught that he has no right to be generous at the expense of others; that God's will must be done even when it goes against the grain, when it contradicts impulses of kindness, and demands painful sacrifices." … Expand
Dec 31
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Chronicles 13:20 ESV
"The writer of Chronicles here, for brevity's sake, and not to recur to his name again, records the death of Jeroboam, which, however, did not happen till after Abijah's death, in the second year of Asa's reign (1 Kings 14:20; 1 Kings 15:25)." … Expand
Dec 29
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Chronicles 13:2 ESV
"His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.--Kings reads for the names "Maachah the daughter of Abishalom"; and as the chronicler has himself already designated Abijah as son of Maachah, daughter of Absalom (2Chronicles 11:20-22), there can be no doubt that this is correct, and that "Michaiah," which is elsewhere a man's name, is a corruption of Maachah. This is confirmed by the LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, which read Maachah. As we have already stated (2Chronicles 11:20), Maachah was granddaughter to Absalom, being a daughter of Tamar the only daughter of Absalom. Uriel of Gibeah, then, must have been the husband of Tamar. " … Expand
Dec 29
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 1 Kings 15:10 ESV
"Maachah.--Maachah was (see 1Kings 15:2) the wife of Rehoboam, and, therefore, grandmother of Asa. She appears, however, still to have retained the place of "queen-mother," to the exclusion of the real mother of the king" … Expand
Dec 29
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Proverbs 11:13 ESV
"13.A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence." Berean Standard Bible
Aug 15