Advice — About the injury which the Israelites had done to his people, and how he should repair it. He took advice. But with whom? Not with the prophet, but with his flattering statesmen. It is good to take advice: but it should be of them who are fit to advise us.
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...
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 Chr...
ADVICE. counsel, as in 2 Chronicles 25:16. He took man's counsel, but not God's. SEE. look. Idiom for desire to fight....
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 wa...
_THEN AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH TOOK ADVICE, AND SENT TO JOASH, THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ, THE SON OF JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL, SAYING, COME, LET US SEE ONE ANOTHER IN THE FACE._ Then Amaziah ... sent to ... Joash...
REIGN OF AMAZIAH This chapter is derived in the main from 2 Kings 14:1, but with two insertions, 2 Kings 14:5 and 2 Kings 14:13....
COME, LET US, etc.] In connexion with the preceding narrative Amaziah's challenge might be explained as due to a desire to have satisfaction for the conduct of the Israelite forces as described in 2 C...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 25 AMAZIAH PREPARES FOR WAR – 2 CHRONICLES 25:1-10 V1
AMAZIAH CHALLENGES JOASH OF ISRAEL TO BATTLE, AND SUFFERS DISASTROUS DEFEAT (2 Chronicles 25:17). (Comp. 2 Kings 14:8.) (17) THEN AMAZIAH... TOOK ADVICE. — _And Amaziah took counsel_ (2 Chroni
וַ יִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֲמַצְיָ֨הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה וַ֠...
JOASH AND AMAZIAH 2 Chronicles 24:1; 2 Chronicles 25:1 FOR Chronicles, as for the book of Kings, the main interest of the reign of Joash is the repairing of the Temple; but the later narrative introd...
The story of the reign of Amaziah opens with a remarkable statement which gives us the key to all that follows. "He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart." The...
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, (p) let us see one another in the face. (p) That is, let us try the matt...
_Another, and fight. He supposed Joas had connived at his subjects' invasion, (v. 13.; H. See 4 K. xiv. 8.; C.) and he now required all Israel to submit to him. Josephus) T._...
What advice could this be? Not of God, nor his prophets, for he had despised both....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 THROUGH 26. Finally, the king perishes, according to Elijah's prediction. Disaster upon disaster falls upon Judah in consequence of this connection with th...
Ver. 17-19. THEN AMAZIAH KING OF JUDAH TOOK ADVICE,.... Not of God, nor of his prophets, but of some of his nobles like himself: AND SENT TO JOASH--KING OF ISRAEL; of his message to him here, and his...
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. Ver. 17. Then Amaziah … took advice....
_Then Amaziah took advice_ About the injury which the Israelites had done to his people, and how he should repair it. He _took advice_ But with whom? Not with the prophet, but with his flattering stat...
1 Amaziah beginneth to reigne well. 3 Hee executeth iustice on the traitours. 5 Hauing hired an armie of Israelites against the Edomites, at the word of a Prophet, he loseth the hundred talents, and...
Amaziah's Idolatry and Defeat by Israel...
Then Amaziah, king of Judah, took advice, he accepted counsel from another quarter, AND SENT TO JOAZ, THE SON OF JEHOAHAZ, THE SON OF JEHU, KING OF ISRAEL, SAYING, COME, LET US SEE ONE ANOTHER IN THE...
AMAZIAH BEGINS WELL (vv.1-4) The reign of Amaziah was relatively long, ¾ 29 years, because, as his father Joash, he at first did what was outwardly right in the eyes of the Lord, though his heart w...
17-28 Never was a proud prince more thoroughly mortified than Amaziah by Joash king of Israel. A man's pride will bring him low, Proverbs 29:23; it goes before his destruction, and deservedly brings...
AMAZIAH TOOK ADVICE, i.e. about the injury which the Israelites had done to his people, 2 CHRONICLES 25:13, and how he should repair it. But of this and the following verses SEE POOLE ON "2 KINGS 14:8...
2 Chronicles 25:17 Amaziah H558 king H4428 Judah H3063 advice H3289 (H8735) sent H7971 (H8799) Joash H3101
CONTENTS: Reign of Amaziah over Judah. War between Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amaziah, Joash, man of God, Obed-edom. CONCLUSION: Trust in God means to be willing to venture the loss of anyth...
2 Chronicles 25:4. _He slew not their children,_ as noted in 2 Kings 14. Whether the king was justly put to death for the blood of Zechariah and his brothers, is a question too delicate for human trib...
2 CHRONICLES 25:1 Amaziah. Throughout his reign, Amaziah is halfhearted in his loyalty to God. His final failure comes after a steady degeneration. ⇐...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 25:17 WILD BEAST... TRAMPLED DOWN THE THISTLE. See note on 2 Kings 14:9–10. The Israelite king Joash interprets Amaziah’s invitation as a challenge to battle. Ama
CRITICAL NOTES.] We have succession of A. (2 Chronicles 25:1), his expedition against Moat (5–13), his idolatry (14–16), his war with Joash (17–24), and his death and burial (25–28). Parallel 2 Kings...
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 r...
In chapter 25, Amaziah [the son of Joash] began to reign, he was twenty-five years old when he began to reign. He reigned for twenty-nine years. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And...
2 Chronicles 25:13; 2 Kings 14:8; 2 Samuel 2:14; Proverbs 20:3...