INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 16 Baasha coming up against Judah, and building Ramah, Asa made a league with the king of Syria, and hired him to make a diversion in his favour, and cause Baasha to leave off building, which succeeded, 2 Chronicles 16:1, for which he was reproved by a prophet of the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE THIRTY AND SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA BAASHA KING OF ISRAEL CAME UP AGAINST JUDAH,.... How this is to be reconciled with the reign of Baasha, which was but twenty four years, and was begun in the third of Asa, and therefore must have been dead nearly ten years before this year of Asa's re... [ Continue Reading ]
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AND AT THAT TIME HANANI THE SEER CAME TO ASA KING OF JUDAH,.... Being sent by the Lord to reprove him: AND SAID UNTO HIM, BECAUSE THOU HAST RELIED ON THE KING OF SYRIA; on the covenant he made with him, on the promises the Syrian king made to him upon receiving his money, and so trusted to an arm o... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE NOT THE ETHIOPIANS AND THE LUBIM A HUGE HOST, WITH VERY MANY CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN?.... They were no less than 1,000,000 men, and three hundred chariots, 2 Chronicles 14:9, the Lubim were the Libyans, a people near Egypt, that dwelt in Africa; according to an Arabic writer l, they were the Nubi... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH,.... The eyes of his omniscience are everywhere, and the eyes of his mercy and goodness, of his care and providence, are here and there, and in every place throughout the whole world at once, see Zechariah 4:10, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRO... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ASA WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER,.... For this faithful reproof of him, which was another instance of his sin and folly: AND PUT HIM IN A PRISON HOUSE; in a very strait place, in which he could not turn himself, what we call "little ease"; some say it was the stocks, others a pillory he put him int... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THE ACTS OF ASA, FIRST AND LAST,.... 1 Kings 15:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ASA IN THE THIRTY NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN WAS DISEASED IN HIS FEET,.... This was about two years before his death, and his disease is generally thought to be the gout in his feet, and a just retaliation for putting the prophet's feet into the stocks: UNTIL HIS DISEASE WAS EXCEEDING GREAT; it in... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ASA SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND DIED IN THE FORTY FIRST YEAR OF HIS REIGN. See 1 Kings 15:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BURIED HIM IN HIS OWN SEPULCHRES WHICH HE HAD MADE FOR HIMSELF IN THE CITY OF DAVID,.... Where was the burying place of the kings of Judah; here Asa had ordered a vault to be made for himself and his family, and therefore called sepulchres, because of the several cells therein to put separa... [ Continue Reading ]