歴代志下 16:10-14 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

Here is, I. A plain and faithful reproof given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making this league with Baasha. The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read of 1 Kgs. 16:1; 2 Chron. 19:2. We observed several things amiss in Asa's treaty with Benhadad. But that which the prophet here charges upon him as the greatest fault he was guilty of in that matter is his relying on the king of Syria and not on the Lord his God, 2 Chron. 16:7. He thought that,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

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 into: for he was in a rage with him because of this thing ; his passion rose very high, and to which he gave way, and was his infirmity: and Asa oppressed some of the people the same time... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11

And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last ,.... See Gill on 1 Kings 15:23 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

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 increased upon him, and became very severe and intolerable, and the fits were frequent, as well as the pain sharper; though the sense of the Hebrew F13 עד למעלה "usque ad supra",... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:13

And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty first year of his reign. See 1 Kings 15:10 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:14

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 separate bodies in: and laid him in the bed ; not only laid him out, as we express it, but laid him on a bed of state, where he lay in great pomp; or the funeral bed, which, with other nations ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was wroth with the seer - Instead of humbling himself, and deprecating the displeasure of the Lord, he persecuted his messenger: and having thus laid his impious hands upon the prophet, he appears to have got his heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin; and then he began to oppress the people, either by unjust imprisonments, or excessive taxations. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:12

Diseased in his feet - He had a strong and long fit of the gout; this is most likely. He sought not to the Lord - "He did not seek discipline from the face of the Lord, but from the physicians." - Targum. Are we not taught by this to make prayer and supplication to the Lord in our afflictions, with the expectation that he will heal us when he finds us duly humbled, i.e., when the end is answered for which he sends the affliction? read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:14

And laid him in the bed - It is very likely that the body of Asa was burnt; that the bed spoken of here was a funeral pyre, on which much spices and odoriferous woods had been placed; and then they set fire to the whole and consumed the body with the aromatics. Some think the body was not burned, but the aromatics only, in honor of the king. How the ancients treated the bodies of the illustrious dead we learn from Virgil, in the funeral rites paid to Misenus. Nec minus interea... read more

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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

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