역대하 16:7-12 Krv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
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 16:7-8
The very impressive episode of four verses begun by the seventh verse is not found in the parallel. The fact furnishes clear indication that our compiler was not indebted to the writer of Kings for material. And the moral aspects of the matter here preserved by the compiler of Chronicles show the paramount reasons why he would not miss bringing it to the front for the returned people's better religious education. Presumably Hanani the seer is the father of that other faithful seer and... 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 16:9
Thou shalt have wars . Although this language at first seems to be intended for very specific application to Asa, yet as we do not read of individual wars occurring after this in his own time, it is quite within a just interpretation of it if we read it as referring to the inevitable experience of the kingdom. Its head and king had just thrown away the opportunity of blocking out one ever-threatening enemy. What more natural consequence than that wars should rush in the rather as a flood, in... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:9
Divine observation and interposition. Hanani the seer was evidently a man who was not only bold and brave enough to confront the king with a rebuke, but he was one who had a keen sense of the near presence and power of the Lord "before whom he stood." We may very well believe that it was the latter which explained the former. Let us heed his doctrine while we admire his fidelity. I. GOD 'S ACTIVE OBSERVANCE OF INDIVIDUAL MEN . These vigorous words (of the text) indicate the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:9
The eyes of the Lord I. A MOMENTOUS DECLARATION . "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth." The words teach the doctrines of: 1 . The Divine omniscience ; since "the eyes of the Lord" not only see to the ends of the earth, and "run to and fro throughout the earth," but are in every place at the same time. 2 . The Divine vigilance; since God not merely knows all that transpires on the earth and beneath the heavens, but, as it were, lies in wait to... 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
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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