Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 15:8

8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet , he took courage , and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD , that was before the porch of the LORD.

To wit, of Azariah, v. 1. who was also called by his Fathers Name Obed. Or Obed may be here put patronymically for the son of Obed; as David is put for Christ the Son of David, Ier. 30. 9. and elsewhere; and Moses for the Sons of Moses, Psal. 90. Title. Or here is an Ellipses of the Relative Word, of which there are many Instances both in sa[illegible: 1+ letters]red and profane Authors; as 2 Sa[illegible: 1+ letters]. 21. 19. the Brother of Gol[illegible: 1+ letters]ah: Mat. 4. 21. Iohn the Son of Zebecke: Luk. 24. 10. Mary the Mother of Iames, by comparing Mark. 15. 40. Ioh. 19. 25. Mary the Wife of Cleopas; and many other places. And so this place may be thus read, When Asa heard these words, even the Prophecy of the Son of Oded the Prophet. And this Ellipsis is the more easie and tolerable, because this Defect might be well enough understood and supplyed out of v. 1. Though some understand this to be another Prophecy of Oded the Father, which is not here expressed, which Azariah his Son repeated to them for the confirmation of his own Prophecy.

For it required great Courage to put away all the Idols, to which so great a number of his People were to this day addicted, and among others, Ma[illegible: 1+ letters]hah the Queen, his Mother, whom for this reason he deposed, 1 King. 15. 13.

To wit, Abijah his Father; which was easily understood from ch. 13. 19. Or, which had been taken, the active word being oft so used impersonally for the passive, as Hebricians know.

Which had been either decayed through Age and long Use of it, or broken by his Idolatrous Mothers means: Or, he consecrated or dedicated the Altar, &c. which possibly had been polluted by Idolaters, and now needed some purification.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word].