2 Chronicles 16:9

_WERE NOT THE ETHIOPIANS AND THE LUBIMS A HUGE HOST, WITH VERY MANY CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN? YET, BECAUSE THOU DIDST RELY ON THE LORD, HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Verse 2 Chronicles 16:9. _THEREFORE - THOU SHALT HAVE WARS._] And so he had with Israel during the rest of his reign, 1 Kings 15:32....

The rebuke of Hanani and his imprisonment by Asa, omitted by the writer of Kings, are among the most important of the additions to Asa’s history for which we are indebted to the author of Chronicles. 2 Chronicles 16:7 ESCAPED OUT OF THINE HAND - Hanani means, “Hadst thou been faithful, and opposed in arms the joint host of Israel and Syria, instead of bribing the Syrian king to desert to thy side, the entire host would have been delivered into thy hand, as was Zerah’s. But now it is escaped from thee. Thou hast lost a glorious opportunity.” 2 Chronicles 16:9 FROM HENCEFORTH THOU SHALT HAVE WARS - As peace had been the reward of Asa’s earlier faith...

EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter fall easily into three parts: Asa's conflict with Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1; parallel, 1 Kings 15:16-11); Hanani's rebuke of Asa, and Asa's ill reception of it (2 Chronicles 16:7); the disease, death, and burial of Asa (2 Chronicles 16:11; parallel, 1 Kings 15:23, 1 Kings 15:24)....

FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH,.... The eyes of his omniscience are everywhere, and the eyes of his mercy and goodness, of his care and providence, are here and there, and in every place throughout the whole world at once, see Zechariah 4:10, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG IN THE BEHALF OF THEM WHOSE HEART IS PERFECT TOWARDS HIM; or, as in the margin, "strongly to hold" with such, to be on their side, take their part, strengthen them, support and supply them, and to protect and defend them who are sincere and upright in heart; whose graces are sincere and unfeigned, though not complete, nor they free from sin, and who, with the heart, sincerely believe in God, in which Asa at this time failed, though otherwise his heart is said to be perfect, 1 Kings 15:4, i

CHAPTER 16 ASA'S RELAPSE AND DEATH _ 1. War between Asa and Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1)_ 2. Hanani's rebuke (2 Chronicles 16:7) 3. Hanani imprisoned (2 Chronicles 16:10) 4. Asa's illness and death (2 Chronicles 16:12) Much has been made by critics of the supposed wrong date, the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa. Compare 1 Kings 15:33 with the first verse of this chapter to see the apparent discrepancy. If the invasion of Judah by Baasha occurred shortly after

Taken from 1 Kings 15:16 with unimportant variations. 2 CHRONICLES 16:7. With the words of 2 Chronicles 16:9, from henceforth thou shalt have wars, contrast 1 Kings 15:16, and there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days. 2 CHRONICLES 16:11. With the words a very great burning (2 Chronicles 16:14) _cf._...

THE EYES OF THE LORD. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Compare Proverbs 15:3.Job 34:21.Psalms 139:2.Jeremiah 16:17; Zechariah 4:10. PERFECT. whole, as in Deuteronomy 27:6....

_run to and fro_ Zechariah 4:10. _therefore from henceforth_ R.V. FOR FROM HENCEFORTH....

DISCOURSE: 407 GOD’S REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE 2 Chronicles 16:9. _The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him_. IN estimating the characters of men, God looks not so much at their actions as at their motives and principles. It is by them that the _quality_ of our actions must be determined: for though no motives, however good, can sanctify a bad action, no action however good can be acceptable to God, if its motive and principle be not pure. There were, it is true, several things which were blameworthy in the conduct of Asa, which was here reproved. He ought not to have made a league at all, we apprehend, with a heathen prince; but certainly not to have induced him to violate the league which he had already made with Israel. But that which rendered his conduct so