379 הדרת קדש, literally, as A.R.V., “beauty of holiness”; _i.e._, sacred robes. Translate with R.V. marg. “praise in the beauty of holiness,” not, as A.R.V., “praise the beauty of holiness.” 380 Exod. xiv. 30. 381 With R.V. marg. 382 The identification of the valley of Berachah with the valley of Jehoshaphat, close to Jerusalem and mentioned by Josephus, is a mere theory, quite at variance with the topographical evidence. 383 Kings xxii. 48, 49. 384 2 Chron. xxiv. 24, peculiar to Chronicles. 385 Psalm xx. 7. 386 1 Macc. ii. 35-38. 387 xxi. 2-4, peculiar to Chronicles. 388 Vv. 5-10; cf. 2 Kings viii. 17-22. 389 xxi. 11-19, peculiar to Chronicles. 390 So R.V. marg., with LXX. and Vulgate A.R.V. have “mountains,” with Masoretic text. 391 Jer. xxix.; xxxvi. 392 Green’s _Shorter History_, p. 404. 393 xxii. 1_b_, peculiar to Chronicles. 394 The Hebrew original of the A.R.V., “departed without being desired,” is as obscure as the English of our versions. The most probable translation is, “He behaved so as to please no one.” The A.R.V. apparently mean that no one regretted his death. 395 We need not discuss in detail the question of Ahaziah’s age at his accession. The age of forty-two, given in 2 Chron. xxii. 2, is simply impossible, seeing that his father was only forty years old when he died. The Peshito and Arabic versions have followed 2 Kings viii. 26, and altered forty-two to twenty-two; and the LXX. reads twenty years. But twenty-two years still presents difficulties. According to this reading, Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, was born when his father was only eighteen, and Jehoram having had several sons before the age of eighteen, had none afterwards. 396 xiii. 7_a_, peculiar to Chronicles. 397 Cf. p. 20. 398 Cf. xxv. 2 with 2 Kings xiv. 4, xxvi. 4 with 2 Kings xv. 4, xxvii. 2 with 2 Kings xv. 34, where similar statements are omitted by the chronicler. 399 2 Kings xii. 9. 400 Exod. xxx. 11-16. 401 Neh. x. 32. 402 xxiv. 14-22, peculiar to Chronicles. 403 Curiously enough, Jehoiada’s name does not occur in the list of high-priests in 1 Chron. vi. 1-12. 404 1 Chron. xxviii. 9; 2 Chron. vii. 19, xii. 5, xiii. 10, xv. 2, xxi. 10, xxviii. 6, xxix. 6, xxxiv. 25. 405 Cf. 2 Kings xii. 17, 18, of which this narrative is probably an adaptation. 406 xxv. 5-13, peculiar to Chronicles, except that the account of the war with Edom is expanded from the brief note in Kings. Cf. ver. 11_b_ with 2 Kings xiv. 7. 407 In the phrase “from Samaria to Beth-horon,” “Samaria” apparently means the northern kingdom, and not the city, _i.e._, from the borders of Samaria; the chronicler has fallen into the nomenclature of his own age. 408 For the discussion of the chronicler’s account of Ahaz see Book III., Chap. VII.