Entering on a Royal Inheritance
W. H. Bennett, M.A. 2 Chronicles 28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. Every young man enters, like Ahaz, upon a royal inheritance; character and career are as all-important to peasant or a shopgirl as they are to an emperor or a queen. When a girl of seventeen or a youth of twenty succeeds to some historic throne we are moved to think of the heavy burden of responsibility laid upon unexperienced shoulders and of the grave issues that must be determined during the swiftly passing years of the early manhood or womanhood. Alas! this heavy burden and these grave issues are but the common lot. His lot is only the common lot set upon a hill, in the full sunlight, to illustrate, interpret, and influence lower and obscurer lives. (W. H. Bennett, M.A.) Parallel Verses KJV: So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. WEB: So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.