Lìdaìzhìxià 35:21

21 Tā chāiqiǎn shǐzhĕ lái jiàn Yuēxīyà , shuō , Yóudà wáng a , wǒ yǔ nǐ hé gān . wǒ jīnrì lái bú shì yào gōngjī nǐ , nǎi shì yào gōngjī yǔ wǒ zhēng zhàn zhī jiā, bìngqiĕ shén fēnfu wǒ sù xíng , nǐ búyào gān yù shén de shì , miǎndé tā huǐmiè nǐ , yīnwei shén shì yǔ wǒ tóng zaì .

Lìdaìzhìxià 35:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 35:21

But he sent ambassadors to him
That is, Necho sent to Josiah:

saying, what have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
signifying he had no quarrel with him, he did not come to fight with him, and he had no business to intermeddle between him and another prince:

I come not against thee this day;
in an hostile manner:

but against the house wherewith I have war;
the king of Assyria:

for God commanded me to make haste;
and oppose his enemy: according to the Targum, it was his idol; and which is the sense of other Jewish writers ^F25; but the true God might have appeared to him in a dream, or sent a prophet to him; or at least he might pretend this, that it might have the greater effect on Josiah; and indeed it seems to be real from the following verse:

forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy
thee not;
he concluded God was with him, and would succeed him, because he had put him upon this enterprise, and hastened him to it; therefore Josiah, in opposing him, might expect to be resisted by him, and fall.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 22. 2.

Lìdaìzhìxià 35:21 In-Context

19 Zhè Yúyuèjié shì Yuēxīyà zuò wáng shí bā nián shǒu de .

20 Zhè shì yǐhòu , Yuēxīyà xiū wán le diàn , yǒu Āijí wáng ní gē shàng lái , yào gōngjī kàojìn yòu fā là dǐ hé de jiā jī mǐ shī . Yuēxīyà chū qù dǐdǎng tā .

21 Tā chāiqiǎn shǐzhĕ lái jiàn Yuēxīyà , shuō , Yóudà wáng a , wǒ yǔ nǐ hé gān . wǒ jīnrì lái bú shì yào gōngjī nǐ , nǎi shì yào gōngjī yǔ wǒ zhēng zhàn zhī jiā, bìngqiĕ shén fēnfu wǒ sù xíng , nǐ búyào gān yù shén de shì , miǎndé tā huǐmiè nǐ , yīnwei shén shì yǔ wǒ tóng zaì .

22 Yuēxīyà què bù kĕn zhuǎn qù líkāi tā , gǎizhuāng yào yǔ tā dǎzhàng , bù tīng cóng shén jiè ní gē zhī kǒu suǒ shuō de huà , biàn lái dào Mǐjíduō píngyuán zhēng zhàn .

23 Gōngjiànshǒu shè zhōng Yuēxīyà wáng . wáng duì tāde chénpú shuō , wǒ shòu le zhòng shāng , nǐ là wǒ chū zhèn ba .