He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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Gill's Exposition
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah the king of Judah,.... By the return of his messengers:
saying, the thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon; intending by…
Barnes' Notes
Amaziah’s Idumaean war is treated at length by the writer of Chronicles (marginal reference). The “Valley of Salt” is usually identified with the broad open plain called the Sabkah, at the southern…
Adam Clarke
He slew of Edom to the valley of salt - This war is more circumstantially related in Ch2 25:5, etc. The Idumeans had arisen in the reign of Joram king of Judah, and shaken off the yoke of the house of…
Amaziah, the son and successor of Joash, is the king whom here we have an account of. Let us take a view of him,
I. In the temple; and there he acted, in some measure, well, like Joash, but not like…
Cambridge Bible
He slewof Edom The Chronicler in 2Ch 25:5-10 gives an account of Amaziah's military preparations, before the expedition against Edom. He tells us that he gathered and marshalled his men of war, from…
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