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2 Chronicles 21:3 KJV
2 Chronicles · chapter 21 · verse 3
And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.2 Chronicles 21:3 · King James Version
2 Chronicles 21:3 in context
1Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
2And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
3And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
4Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.
5Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- kingdommamlâkâhdominionH4467 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
- fencedmᵉtsûwrâha hemming inH4694 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- greatrababundantH7227 →
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We find here, I. That Jehoshaphat was a very careful indulgent father to Jehoram. He had many sons, who are here named (Ch2 21:2), and it is said (Ch2 21:13) that they were better than Jehoram, had a great deal more wisdom and virtue, and lived up to their education, which he went counter to.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11