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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 20:1
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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It came to pass after this also, etc.] After Jehoshaphat’s return from Ramothgilead, and putting the civil and religious affairs of his people on a better footing, when he might have expected much peace and prosperity: that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon; both the descendants of Lot, (see <198308>Psalm 83:8), and with them other besides the Ammonites; a great company of Arabians, according to Josephus f70; or “with the Meamonites”, which the Targum understands of the Idumaeans or Edomites; and so do other interpreters, and which they conclude from (<142010>2 Chronicles 20:10,22,23). Jarchi thinks the Amalekites are meant, who were of the race of Edom; but the notion of Kimchi seems best, that these are the people that are so called from the name of a place, Meon, and, by an inversion of letters, the same with the Meunim or Maonites, mentioned along with the Zidonians and Amalekites, (<071012>Judges 10:12) and whom the Septuagint version here calls Minaeans; some f71 take them to be such who counterfeited the Ammonites in their apparel and gestures: these came against Jehoshaphat in battle; being instigated perhaps by the Syrians, who owed him ill will for assisting Ahab against them at Ramothgilead; for from that quarter they came, as the following verse shows.
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