John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:2
And Asa did that which was good and right ,.... See 1 Kings 15:11 . read more
歷代志下 14:2 Cunpts
John Gill
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 14:2
Did that which was good - He attended to what the law required relative to the worship of God. He was no idolater, though, morally speaking, he was not exempt from faults, 1 Kings 15:14 . He suppressed idolatry universally, and encouraged the people to worship the true God: see 2 Chronicles 14:3-5 . read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-5
Rest on every side. It is significant enough that the Chronicler considered it a noteworthy fact that "in his days the land was quiet ten years." It indicates very forcibly that the chronic condition of the country in those times was one of unsettlement and strife. We should think it strange, indeed, if the historian of our country thought it worth while to record that for ten years the sovereign "had no war" ( 2 Chronicles 14:6 ). But it is painful to think that for very many centuries,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-8
Quiet in the land. I. A GREAT BLESSING . 1 . Its character. No war ( 2 Chronicles 14:6 ). Few, reflecting on the untold calamities of war, the expenditure of blood and treasure, the sorrow and desolation sent into many homes, the interruption of the arts of peace, the bad passions kindled by it in the breasts even of the victors, will doubt that peace is one of the foremost blessings a nation can enjoy. This was the condition of Judah during the first ten years of Asa's... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-15
The quiet often years. The former half of this chapter may be said to turn upon the welcome subject of the "quiet" (spoken of twice), the "no war" (spoken of once), and the "rest" (spoken of three times), which were now for ten years the portion of Judah. The tender youth and the pious promise of King Asa combined, no doubt, in the providence of God, with external circumstances, to secure that interval of quiet and repose from war from which many blessings were able to flow. We may... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:2
That which was good and right . Our Authorized Version does not omit to mark the first three words with italic type, the simple and emphatic original being, the good and the straight. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:2-5
Destructive godliness. Human energy and capacity show themselves in two forms -in the destructive and in the constructive. Though action of the latter kind is the more honourable and admirable of the two, yet that of the former is also useful and needful in its time. Moses did a very good work for the people of Israel when he ground to powder the golden calf; and Hezekiah, when he broke in pieces the brazen serpent and called it "a bit of brass;" and the Christians of Ephesus did a wise... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:2-7
Constructive godliness. It is better to construct than to destroy (see preceding homily), and though Asa did well in demolishing the strange altars and expelling the sodomites from the land, he did even better in I. BUILDING UP OURSELVES on our holy faith (Jud 1:20). A man's first duty is that which he owes to his own spirit; for God has given him that, above all things, to have in charge and to present pure and perfect before him at the last. We are, therefore, most sacredly... read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-8
Here is, I. Asa's general character (2 Chron. 14:2): He did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 1. He aimed at pleasing God, studied to approve himself to him. Happy are those that walk by this rule, to do that which is right, not in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but in the eyes of God. 2. He saw God's eye always upon him, and that helped much to keep him to what was good and right. 3. God graciously accepted him in what he did, and approved his conduct... read more