2 Kings 18:4
Nehushtan: a mere "piece of brass." So Hezekiah named the brazen
serpent. He was bent on the work of national reformation. He saw that
incense was being burnt to this brazen serpent; that was enough for
him. Whatever it might have been to the people in the past, it was
clearly a curse... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Kings 18:9
I. In the time of David and Solomon, the small people of the Jews
became a very powerful nation, respected and feared by all the
kingdoms round. But when they fell into idolatry and forsook the true
God and His law, all was changed. Idolatry brought sin; and sin
brought bad passions, h... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Kings 18:36
I. How strong must have been the temptation to answer the apostate
Rabshakeh. And what rendered silence more difficult was the easiness
of the answer which might have been given by reference to the mighty
hand and to the outstretched arm by which Jehovah had rescued His
people from the... [ Continue Reading ]