2 Chronicles 25:14

_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THAT AMAZIAH WAS COME FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE EDOMITES, THAT HE BROUGHT THE GODS OF THE CHILDREN OF SEIR, AND SET THEM UP TO BE HIS GODS, AND BOWED DOWN HIMSELF BEFORE THEM, AND BURNED INCENSE UNTO THEM._ Amaziah ... brought the gods of the children of Seir. The Edomites worshipped the sun under different forms and with various rites. But burning incense upon altars was a principal act of worship, and this was the very thing Amaziah is described as having, with strange infatuation, performed. Whether he had been captivated with the beauty of the images, or hoped, by honouring the gods, to disarm their spite at him for his conquest and harsh treatment of their votaries, his conduct in establishing these objects of religious homage in Jerusalem was foolish, ignorant, and highly offensive to God, who commissioned a prophet to rebuke him for his apostasy, and t...

14-16 To worship the gods of those whom Amaziah had conquered, who could not help their own worshippers, was the greatest absurdity. If men would consider how unable all those things are to help them, to which they look whenever they forsake God, they would not be such enemies to themselves. The reproof God sent by a prophet was too just to be answered; themselves. The reproof God sent by a prophet was too just to be answered; but he was bidden not to say a word more. The secure sinner rejoices to have silenced his reprovers and monitors; but what comes of it? Those that are deaf to reproof, are ripening for destruction....

Verse 2 Chronicles 25:14. _THE GODS OF THE CHILDREN OF SEIR_] "The idols of the children of Gebal." - _Targum_....

The practice of carrying off the images of the gods from a conquered country, or city, as trophies of victory, was common among the nations of the East. Sometimes as with the Romans, the object was worship, especially when the gods were previously among those of the conquering country, and the images had the reputation of special sanctity....

EXPOSITION This chapter is filled up with a very graphic account of the entire career of Amaziah, and its twenty-eight verses are paralleled by the twenty verses of 2 Kings 14:1, where the narrative reads in several places much more curtly. Our chapter opens with the familiar anticipatory summary of the man, his age, pedigree, and character, whose course is to be detailed more precisely in following verses, again and yet again sounding the clear key-note of an unclean character and reign (2 Chronicles 25:1, 2 Chronicles 25:2); it proceeds to record the king's avenging of his father's murder (2 Chro

NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THAT AMAZIAH WAS COME FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE EDOMITES,.... Instead of returning thanks to God for the victory obtained, and giving him the glory of it: THAT HE BROUGHT THE GODS OF THE CHILDREN OF SEIR, AND SET THEM UP TO BE HIS GODS; what were the gods of the Edomites is nowhere said in Scripture; only Josephus l speaks of the priests of Coze, which he says was a god of the Idumaeans: AND BOWED HIMSELF BEFORE THEM, AND BURNED INCENSE UNTO THEM; which was the greatest piece of sottishhess and stupidity imaginable, to worship the gods of a nation conquered by him; for since they could not save them, what help could he expect from them? l Antiqu. l. l5. c. 7. sect. 9....

5. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER AMAZIAH, UZZIAH, JOTHAM AND AHAZ CHAPTER 25 The Reign of Amaziah _ 1. The record of Amaziah's reign (2 Chronicles 25:1)_ 2. The war against Edom (2 Chronicles 25:5) 3. His idolatry and the divine rebuke (2 Chronicles 25:14) 4. The war between Judah and Israel (2 Chronicles 25:17) 5. The death of Amaziah (2 Chronicles 25:26) Joash's son Amaziah (strength of the Lord) took up the government in Judah when he wa

THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH. This section is taken from 2 Kings 14:1 with some considerable additions and modifications characteristic of the Chronicler. 2 Chronicles 25:1. See notes on 2 Kings 14:1; the Chronicler omits all reference to worship on the high places. 2 Chronicles 25:5. A midrashic expansion of 2 Kings 14:7, forming a background to the verses which follow. 2 Chronicles 25:7. a man of God:...

SET THEM UP. For. similar action See 2 Chronicles 28:23....

10. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH (Chapter 25) TEXT 2 Chronicles 25:1. Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. 2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart. 3. Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 4. But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. 5. Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers-' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundred