Lìdaìzhìxià 26:5

5 Tōng xiǎo shén mò shì , Sājiālìyà zaì shì de shíhou , Wùxī yǎ déng yì xúnqiú shén . tā xúnqiú Yēhéhuá , shén jiù shǐ tā hēng tōng .

Lìdaìzhìxià 26:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 26:5

And he sought God in the days of Zechariah
Not that Zechariah, the last of the prophets save one, he lived three hundred years after this; nor he that Joash slew; but, as it may seem, a son of his, perhaps the same with him in ( Isaiah 8:2 ) ,

who had understanding in the visions of God:
who either had prophetic visions granted to him, or had divine wisdom to interpret such that others had; or, as others think, had a gift of interpreting the prophecies of others, the writings of Moses and David to which the Targum seems to agree; which paraphrases it,

``who taught in the fear of the Lord;''

with which agree the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; some copies read "in the fear of God"; as an ancient manuscript mentioned by Junius, and so the Talmud ^F12:

and, as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper;
in his kingdom, and against his enemies; even so long as he abode by the word, worship, and ordinances of God, of which instances are given, as follow.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Vid. Buxtorf. Lex. in rad. (har) .

Lìdaìzhìxià 26:5 In-Context

3 Wū xī yǎ dēng jī de shíhou nián shí liù suì , zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng zuò wáng wǔ shí èr nián . tā mǔqin míng jiào yé kĕ lì yǎ , shì Yēlùsǎlĕng rén .

4 Wū xī yǎ xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wèi zhēng de shì , xiàofǎ tā fù yà mǎ xiè yīqiè suǒ xíng de .

5 Tōng xiǎo shén mò shì , Sājiālìyà zaì shì de shíhou , Wùxī yǎ déng yì xúnqiú shén . tā xúnqiú Yēhéhuá , shén jiù shǐ tā hēng tōng .

6 Tā chū qù gōngjī Fēilìshì rén , chāihuǐ le Jiātè chéng , yǎ bǐ ní chéng , hé Yàshítū chéng . zaì Fēilìshì rén zhōng , zaì Yàshítū jìng neì , yòu jiànzhù le xiē chéng .

7 Shén bāngzhu tā gōngjī Fēilìshì rén hé zhù zaì gū Ěr bā lì de a là bǎi rén , bìng mǐ wù ní rén .