Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 985
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
and captured from him the Cities of Beth·el, and its villages; and jes- hanah, and its villages; and Afreu, and its villages, and jerabam never recovered his strength inthe times of Abiah; for the Even-Lxvxxo struck and defeated him, but Abiah was strengthened, and married fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sous, and sixteen daughters. The remainder of the deeds of
Abiah, and his proceedings, and his affairs, are recorded in the Commen· taries ofthe Reciter Ado. Then Abiah slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in the City of David, and Asa his son reigned in- stead of him. In his time the Country was at peace for ten years. (g55 ac.) §\sii’¤ {leigh. 14 Asa also did what was good and right in the eyes of the EvER·L1V1NG, and removed the foreign altars, and the Mounds, and broke the Columns, and felled the Groves,and commanded judah to seek the EvEn—L1v1NG Gon of their fathers, and to practise his Laws and Instructions. He also re- moved the Moundsfrom the towns of judah and the Images of the Sun. So his reign was in peace before him. §zn yuriihes Quimly. He also built fortresses in judah,
for the country was at rest, and he had no war in those years ;e-·for the Evan-Lrviue was kind to him, there- Let us be building these Cities, and surround them with walls and forts, doors and bars, whilst the country is quiet, now we have sought our EVER-LIVING GOD, and He has given us rest around. S0 they built, and prospered. gmfu large $1*:ug. Yet Asa had an army who bore shield
and spear, of three hundred thousand men of ]udah. And two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin, who carried shields, or drew the bow. All these were disciplined soldiers. Afterwards Zerakh, the Kushite,1
advanced against them with an Army of a million, and three hundred Chariots, and arrived at Mareshah, and Asa went out to meet him, and prepared to tight inthe plain of Zefa- thah near l\·Iareshah,where Asa cried to his EvsR~r,1v1:<o Gon, and said: LORD! there is no difference with
You, when helping, between the weak and the strong I Help us, our EvER— LIVING GOD, for we rely upon You, and in Your Name we come against this host. You are our Ev1za—1.1vixo GoD,—let not man prevail against And the EVER~L1v1NG routed the Kushites before Asa, and before }udah,——·so the Kushites tied. But Asa pursued them, with the force that was with him, to Gherar, where he overwhelmed the Kushites, and gave no quarter, for they were broken before the EvER~L1v1NG, and before His army, and very great plunder was collected. He next assailed all the towns
around Gherar,——for a terror from the LORD came upon them,———and sacked all the Cities, for there was much pro— perty in them. They also attacked the cattle folds, and captured many sheep, and camels, and afterwards returned to jerusalem. IO II X2
(94x ac.) Agnrinlfz Qkhhrzss in Qsn auth his §\rmg. Then the Spirit of the LORD came 15 upon Azariah ·.ben - Audad, and he went out to meet Asa, and said Listen to me, Asa! and the Army of judah, and Benjamin! The EvEn—1.1v1NG is with you, so you be with Him ;——for if you seek Him, He will be found by you ;·-·and if you abandon Him, He will abandon you. For a long time Israel had had no TRUE GOD, or Teaching Priest, and no Law, yet when in its distress it turned to the GOD of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them, and in those past times there was no safety in going out or in coming in, Zerakh, the
The Kush of the Hebrew His- tories was a state extendinfrom the Persian g Gulf across Northern Ara ia to the Gulf of Akabah in the Red Sea. It was not, as the Greeks imagined, Ethiopia in Central Africa, and as all our modern commentators, follow- ing their blunder, make it seem to be.——F. F.
