Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 20:1

1 I[illegible: 1+ letters] came to pass after this also, that the children of [illegible: 1 word], and the childr[illegible: 1+ letters]n of Ammon, and with them oth[illegible: 1+ letters]r beside the Ammonites , [illegible: 1+ letters]ame against Jehoshaphat to battel.

To wit, the people that dwelt in Mount Seir, who were now Confederate with them, as appears from v. 10, 22, 23. Or, This is the Name of a Peculiar People called either Mehumin, of whom you read 2 C[illegible: 1+ letters]ron. 26. 7. (and so there is onely a Transposition of two Letters in the Hebrew word, which is not unusual in that Language) or [illegible: 1 word], as the LXX Interpreters render this Word; or [illegible: 1 word], or [illegible: 1 word], as it is in the Hebrew (the two first Letters being not Prefixes, as they are commonly made, but part of the Word or proper Name of that People) who, as it may seem, now dwelt in Mount Seir, being either of the Old Stock of the Edomites, or another Nation since come in their stead or mixed with them. Others render the Place thus, for (as the Hebrew vau is oft taken) with them (i. e. with the Moabites) were the Ammo [illegible: 1+ letters] or children of Ammon. Which may be distinctly noted either to shew the largeness of the Confederacy, in which not onely the Moabites were ingaged, who dwelt nearer Jehoshaphats Kingdom, but the Ammonites also who lived at a greater distance from him: Or to intimate that the Ammonites, being possibly instigated by the Syrians, their next Neighbours, were the first Beginners and chief Promoters of the War, and engaged both the Moabites and the Inhabitants of Mount Seir in their Quarrel.

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