2 Chronicles 21:16

16 And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who [were] {near} the Cushites against Jehoram.

2 Chronicles 21:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:16

Moreover, the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of
the Philistines
Which had been depressed in the times of Jehoshaphat, to whom they brought their presents and tribute willingly, ( 2 Chronicles 17:11 )

and of the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians;
not the Ethiopians of Africa, as the Targum, for the Arabians were not near them, but the Chusaean Arabs or Midianites, see ( Numbers 12:1 ) . The Targum is, the Word of the Lord did this.

2 Chronicles 21:16 In-Context

14 behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

15 and you yourself [will be afflicted] with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'"

16 And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who [were] {near} the Cushites against Jehoram.

17 And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son.

18 And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for [which there was] no cure.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "at the hand of"