CONTENTS In this chapter we arrive in point of history to the close of Hezekiah's life and reign. He meets with a sharp trial in the approach of the Assyrian army. His sickness and death. Manasseh his son succeeds him in the throne. 2 Chronicles 32:1 We have the history of this war so much more fu... [ Continue Reading ]
This is an interesting account of the plan Hezekiah pursued against the invader; and which is not related to us in the parallel history in the book of the Kings. But what I most admire is Hezekiah's faith in the Lord, and by which he animated the minds of his people. Reader! it is one of the highest... [ Continue Reading ]
It is remarkable that about this time great revolutions were accomplishing in the earth. Rome, the mistress of the world as she afterwards became, was about this period built by Romulus, of whom profane historians speak so largely; and which indeed I should not have mentioned in this place, but for... [ Continue Reading ]
By this time Israel had been carried away captive. And Sennacherib thought to do the same by Judah. The Holy Ghost hath considered this part of the church's history so important, as to cause three records to be made of it. In 2 Kings 18:19; in this place of the Chronicles; and by the prophecy of Isa... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the Lord's servant under another trial, that of sickness. Sweet are all the exercises of God's people when sanctified. The event of this is more particularly related, 2 Kings 20:1; Isaiah 38:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Holy Ghost hath been pleased to give us in those Chronicles the most interesting account concerning Hezekiah in the causes of his trials, and which the other records, though relating the historical part more copiously, have not done. The grand design was to show Hezekiah what was in his heart. T... [ Continue Reading ]
Here's the end of Hezekiah, which forms the final end of end of all. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt, thou return. But the memory of the just is blessed!... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS So royal a character as Hezekiah, and especially after the view we have had before of his father Ahaz, demands our thankfulness to the God of our mercies, who maketh one to differ from another, and by his grace forms all the difference between the precious, and the vile. And while we loo... [ Continue Reading ]