2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 15 Asa, with Judah and many of Israel, moved by Azariah the prophet, renew a solemn covenant with God, 2 CHRONICLES 15:1. He removeth Maachah his mother for her idolatry; bringeth the hallowed things again into the temple; and enjoyeth a long peace, 2 CHRONICLES 15:16. No text f... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD IS WITH YOU, to defend you against all your enemies, as now you have seen, and you may hereafter expect, if you persist in that good course into which you are entered. IF YE FORSAKE HIM, HE WILL FORSAKE YOU: but let not this victory make you presumptuous or self-confident, for you are upon... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. _For many days_ have been to Israel WITHOUT THE TRUE GOD, & c, i.e. they have long lived without the sound knowledge and worship of the true God. The prophet confirms his foregoing exhortation, and the threatening annexed to it, that if they forsook God, he would forsake them, from the usual ma... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY DID TURN, i.e. Israel, mentioned 2 CHRONICLES 15:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THOSE TIMES; when Israel lived in the gross neglect and contempt of God, and his law and worship. NO PEACE TO HIM THAT WENT OUT, NOR TO HIM THAT CAME IN; men could not go abroad about their private occasions without great danger; as it was in the days of Shamgar, JUDGES 5:6, which is a good comme... [ Continue Reading ]
NATION WAS DESTROYED OF NATION, i.e. one part of the people of Israel destroyed the other by civil wars; of which see instances, JUDGES 9:23, &c.; JUDGES 12:1, &c. As all the people of Israel are called a nation, so the several tribes and families of them are sometimes called nations, as GENESIS 17:... [ Continue Reading ]
BE YE STRONG THEREFORE; go on therefore courageously and resolutely to maintain God's worship, and to root out idolatry, as you have begun to do; for this is the only right method of preserving yourselves from such calamities as your predecessors have felt. LET NOT YOUR HANDS BE WEAK; be not discour... [ Continue Reading ]
OF ODED THE PROPHET, to wit, of _Azariah_, 2 CHRONICLES 15:1, who was also called by his father's name _Oded_. Or _Oded_ may be here put patronymically for the son of _Oded_; as David is put for Christ the Son of _David_, JEREMIAH 30:9, and elsewhere; and _Moses_ for the sons of _Moses_, PSALMS 90:1... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF SIMEON; which tribe, though they had their inheritance out of the portion of Judah, did for the generality of them revolt to Jeroboam with the other tribes, as appears from many passages of Scripture; which they might conveniently do, because their portion bordered, as on one side upon that o... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE THIRD MONTH, to wit, of the sacred year, in which the feast of weeks or of pentecost fell; of which see EXODUS 23:16 DEUTERONOMY 16:9. IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA. Asa had peace but ten years, 2 CHRONICLES 14:1; after which probably there were some bickerings and skirmishes, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Taken from Zerah and his accomplices, 2 CHRONICLES 14:13, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ENTERED INTO A COVENANT; they engaged themselves by a serious and solemn covenant before the Lord and this great assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whosoever should obstinately refuse to pay unto God that solemn worship which he required at his temple in Jerusalem, or should disown God, or serve other gods, SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH, by virtue of all those laws which command that such persons should be _cut off_, and in pursuance of that law, DEUT... [ Continue Reading ]
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ALL JUDAH REJOICED, i.e. a great number of the people, as such general expressions are frequently understood; for none doubt but there were many dissemblers and ungodly men at this time among them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this and the following verses, SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 15:2", SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 15:10", SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 15:14", SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 15:15".... [ Continue Reading ]
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For though there were continual skirmishes between Asa and Baasha and their people _all their days_, 1 KINGS 15:16, yet it did not break forth into an open war till Asa's thirty-fifth year, i.e. till that was ended. But how this thirty-fifth year is to be computed, SEE POOLE ON "2 CHRONICLES 16:1".... [ Continue Reading ]