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t2Chron 20:1
It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the (a) Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. (a) That is, who copied the Ammonites in language and apparel. The Hebrews thought that they were the Amalekites, but as it appeared by (Ch2 20:10) they were the Idumeans of mount Seir. 2 Chronicles 20:2
t2Chron 20:1
It came to pass after this also,.... 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 Psa 83:8, and with them other besides the Ammonites; a great company of Arabians, according to Josephus (r); or "with the Meamonites", which the Targum understands of the Idumaeans or Edomites; and so do other interpreters, and which they conclude from Ch2 20:10. 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, Jdg 10:12 and whom the Septuagint version here calls Minaeans; some (s) 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. (r) Antiqu. l. 9. c. 1. sect. 2. (s) Weemse of the Moral Law, l. 2. c. 6. p. 161. 2 Chronicles 20:2