歴代志下 16:10-14 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The disappointing relapse of what had seemed tried worth, knowledge, and proved goodness. Mournful to the last degree is the impression made on us by what we are given to learn last of the career of King Asa. It is a reversal—not the reversal from bad to good, but of what seemed good and seemed sure, to bad. The humiliating lesson and fresh illustration of human caprice and weakness must be in like spirit and with proportionate humility noted and learned by ourselves. It is, indeed, a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The king and the prophet. I. THE PROPHET 'S MESSAGE TO THE KING . ( 2 Chronicles 16:7-9 .) 1 . The prophet ' s name. Hanani, "Favourable" (Gesenius); otherwise unknown, though conjectured to be the father of "Jehu the son of Hanani," who announced to Baasha the ruin of his house ( 1 Kings 16:1 ), and afterwards appeared at the court of Jehoshaphat ( 2 Chronicles 19:2 ), having probably been obliged to flee from the northern kingdom on account of his ill-omened... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

A prison-house ; literally, Hebrew, the house of the מַהְפֶכֶת ; i.e. "of the twisting or distortion;" i.e. "the stocks." The word occurs three other times only, all of them in Jeremiah viz. Jeremiah 20:2 , Jeremiah 20:3 ; Jeremiah 29:26 . (For a forcible parallel, see 1 Kings 22:27 .) And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time . This may throw some explanatory, though no exculpatory, light on Asa's wrath and violence towards Hanani; for it probably marks that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

Lessons from last years. We could well wish the account of the last days of Asa to have been different from what it is. Sombre clouds, casting a chill shadow, gathered in the evening sky. Not that there was actual defection, but there was an amount of infirmity that detracts from the honour which his earlier years had laid up for him. We cannot help feeling— I. THAT AGE IS NOT ALWAYS AS VENERABLE AS IT SHOULD BE ; not even a "good old age;" not even Christian old... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11

This verse, with the following three, is represented by the very summarized but sufficiently significant parallel of 1 Kings 15:23 , 1 Kings 15:24 . Note that the reference work cited in this verse as the book of the kings of Judah and Israel , is in the paralled cited as "the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah." Of course, the latter citation was much the earlier in point of time. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11-14

The career of Asa. I. HIS LIFE . 1 . The length of his reign. Forty-one years. His father, whose " heart was not perfect" towards God ( 1 Kings 15:3 ), reigned only three years ( 2 Chronicles 13:3 ). The Old Testament promised long life as a reward to piety ( Psalms 34:12-14 ). But, even without a special promise, a religious life is calculated to prolong days. "Fear God, and keep his commandments," is the first rule of health. 2 . The incidents of his reign. 3... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

His disease was exceeding great Perhaps a somewhat more literal rendering will more correctly express the emphasis of the original, e.g. his disease was great even to excess . For yet, read emphatically, and also ; the historian purposing to say that as, in his fear of Baasha, he had not sought the Lord, but Benhadad, so, in his excessive illness also, he had not sought the Lord, but the physicians! read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:13

Amid the frequent uncertainties of the chronology, we are glad to get some dates fixed by the agreement of testimonies. E.g. this place and the parallel state clearly that Asa's reign was one that lasted to its forty-first year. The parallel, however ( 1 Kings 15:23 ), makes this date one and the same thing with his "old age , " while no manipulation of dates can make him (the grandson of Rehoboam and son of Abijah) more than about fifty. And it is somewhat remarkable that, when... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:14

In his own sepulchres ; Hebrew, קִבְרֹתָין ; fem. plur. of קֶבֶר . The plural designates, of course, the range of burial compartments that formed the tomb of one person or family. So Job 17:1 , where the masc. plur. is used, קְבָרִים לִי . In the city of David (see note on 2 Chronicles 12:16 ). In the bed ; Hebrew, מִשְׁכָּב . The use or associations of this word (found about fifty times) are almost entirely, if not entirely, those of the bed of nightly rest, even... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The rebuke of Hanani and his imprisonment by Asa, omitted by the writer of Kings, are among the most important of the additions to Asa’s history for which we are indebted to the author of Chronicles.2 Chronicles 16:7Escaped out of thine hand - Hanani means, “Hadst thou been faithful, and opposed in arms the joint host of Israel and Syria, instead of bribing the Syrian king to desert to thy side, the entire host would have been delivered into thy hand, as was Zerah’s. But now it is escaped from... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11-14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:13

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

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