2 Chronicles 19

2 Chronicles 19:2

IS wrath] God hath just occasion to bee angry with thee, and punish thee; yet through his fatherly pitty, hee hath more regard to thy piety in other things then to this thy particular offence.

2 Chronicles 19:4

From Beer-sheba] from the one end of the land of Iudah to the other; for these were the two outermost bounds.

2 Chronicles 19:7

There is no] and therefore you ought to conforme your selves, unto that perfect pattern of your soveraign Lords exemplary justice, in being thankfull unto him: and also to know, that whatsoever is not in him; is contrary to his will, and hee will punish it.

2 Chronicles 19:8

Of Israel] of that part which was subiect unto him: [for the judgement] to judge in Ecclesiasticall causes; or those which were of the written Law, set down in the Law of God. For in Ecclesiasticall causes it should seem the Priest, and Levites only were Iudges: in the other, the Ecclesiasticall & temporall judges were joyned: the first to set down what was the Law, and the others to examine the fact, and see the Law executed: [for controversies] this seemeth to be referred to causes which are only meerely civill and of reall and positive right, as contracts, sales, bargains &c [they returned] whetherit were by meanes of the parties appeal, of which there is no expresse mention in the Law; or by the recourse of the Iudges, themselves in difficult, and ambiguous causes, as Exod. 18 26. Deuteronomy 1:17. according to the commandement, Deuteronomy 17:8.

2 Chronicles 19:10

Between blood] see upon Deuteronomy 17:8 [between Law] in cases where each partie shall pretend to have right, and ground on the Law of God: doe you endeavour to finde out the true meaning of it, and to resolve the seeming ambiguities, and contradictions, and to know to whom according to its true meaning, it giveth the right.

2 Chronicles 19:11

Of the Lord] Ecclesiasticall businesse, pertaining to the religious order, and service of God, or in causes which may be decided by the declaration of the Law: [ruler] see 1 Chronicles 27:16. [the Kings matters] depending upon the Kings statute, being of positive right: [officers] it should seeme they were some inferiour magistrates, from amongst the Levites, which were in stead of censors, and correctors to maintain the use of the Law, and governe the peoples behaviours in each city: and they received their orders from the great consistory in Ierusalem.