Hawker's Poor man's commentary
2 Chronicles 25:1
CONTENTS
This chapter records the reign of Amaziah: his wars, his idolatry, the Lord's displeasure against him; his combat with Joash: his death.
CONTENTS
This chapter records the reign of Amaziah: his wars, his idolatry, the Lord's displeasure against him; his combat with Joash: his death.
CHAPTER XXV _Amaziah succeeds his father Joash, and begins his reign well_, 1, 2. _He slays his father's murderers but spares their children_, 3, 4. _He reviews and remodels the army_, 5; _and hi...
This chapter is evidently taken to a large extent from the same document as Kings (see the marginal reference and the notes). At the same time it contains large and important additions; e. g. 2 Chroni...
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...
AMAZIAH. Compare 2 Kings 14:1. Complementary to Kings (see App-56); verses: 2 Chronicles 25:5 and verses: 2 Chronicles 25:13 are additional....
2 Chronicles 25:1-4 (2 Kings 14:1-6). Amaziah Succeeds 2. _not with a perfect heart_ In Kings, "yet not like David his father" (because "the high places were not taken away"). The Chronicler has some...
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...
_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._ Amaziah was twenty and five years...
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....
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
XXV. THE REIGN OF AMAZIAH. (Comp. 2 Kings 14:1.) DURATION AND CHARACTER OF THE REIGN. EXECUTION OF THE MURDERERS OF JOASH (2 Chronicles 25:1). (1, 2) AMAZIAH... THE LORD. — So 2 Kings 14:2
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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...
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. 1-4. AMAZIAH WAS TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN,.... Of these verses, 2 Kings 14:2. 2 Kings 14:3. 2 Kings 14:5....
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. Ver. 1. Amaziah was twenty and...
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 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, one of the wives selected for his fat...
THE OVERTHROW OF THE EDOMITES...
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...
1-13 Amaziah was no enemy to religion, but cool and indifferent friend. Many do what is good, but not with a perfect heart. Rashness makes work for repentance. But Amaziah's obedience to the command...
2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 25 Amaziah beginneth to reign well; slayeth his father's murderers, 2 CHRONICLES 25:1. Having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites, at the word of a prophet he dismiss...
2 Chronicles 25:1 Amaziah H558 twenty-five H6242 H2568 years H8141 old H1121 king H4427 (H8804) reigned H4427
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. ⇐...
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 Kings 14:1...