역대하 24:18-23 KRV

The sad and strange unreliableness of human disposition and life here. One of the strangest of all the sadnesses of human life is the uncertainty and unreliableness of human disposition, which it is so constantly exposing to view. Not only has the fairest promise vanished (like the sun of many a morning) long before the character could be supposed to be firm or even fairly formed, but after the period justly esteemed critical has passed, after fruit has set, and even after some fruit has... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-22

The downward career of a king. I. JOASH 'S TEMPTATION . ( 2 Chronicles 24:17 .) 1 . When it came. "After Jehoiada's death,", when the weakling king, having lost his counsellor, was left to the guidance of his own vain heart and foolish understanding. Temptations mostly assail men in their moments of weakness. Eve was probably assaulted in the absence of Adam ( Genesis 3:1 ); David, certainly, in the absence of Nathan ( 2 Samuel 11:2 ); Job, when enfeebled through affliction... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-25

Sad successive stages. With the seventeenth verse of this chapter there commences a very painful record. From one who had been so mercifully spared, so admirably trained, so bountifully blessed, as was King Joash, much better things might have been expected. It is the melancholy story of rapid degeneracy, and a miserable and dishonourable end. I. DEPARTURE FROM THE LIVING GOD . Not being "rooted and grounded" in reverence and in attachment to Jehovah, as soon as the directing... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:18

Served groves ; Revised Version, the Asherim, correctly (see note, 2 Chronicles 14:3 ). For this their trespass . Comparing the emphatic language of 2 Chronicles 24:23 ," destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, " we may conclude that stress is to be laid on the pronoun "their" in the present verse. The worship of the true God was not left by the whole people, and we are not told it was by the king; but (very probably through want of moral courage) he... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:19

Prophets . The name of only one, Zechariah, as in next verse, is given (see by the side of this verse the emphatic and touching language of 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:20

Came upon ; margin, clothed; Revised Version margin, clothed itself with ( 1 Chronicles 12:18 ). Compare the beautiful expression of Revelation 1:10 , ,I was in the Spirit;" it was not merely that the Spirit deigned to visit St. John in Patmos, but so possessed him that he was in the Spirit. The son of Jehoiada ; i.e. very possibly grandson of Jehoiada (Jehoiada's great age the rather countenancing this interpretation) and " son of Barachias" ( Matthew 23:35 ). That ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:21

Stoned him . Yet this was their Law's punishment for themselves, for idolaters (Le 2 Chronicles 20:2 ). At the commandment of the king. The king, who had yielded to the flattering obeisance and worship of the princes, is now driven on a grievous length further. In the court of the house of the Lord . So Matthew 23:35 , "between the temple [Revised Version, 'sanctuary'] and the altar." read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:22

Remembered not the kindness ( Genesis 40:23 ). The Lord look upon it, and require it . So, too, the Revised Version, which also, according to its custom, removes the italic type from the two neuter pronouns "it." But probabaly a better and correcter rendering is, "The Lord will see and will require" (for it is not necessary to regard this as a prayer of Zechariah); and thus bring it into comparison with those divinest prayers of the Saviour and of St. Stephen. The words on dying... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:23

At the end of the year ; Hebrew, תְּקוּפַת ; margin, both of the Authorized Version and the Revised Version, revolution. The word is found three other times, Exodus 34:22 ; 1 Samuel 1:20 ; Psalms 19:7 . The versions, of course, express correctly what is meant, but probably the season of spring is also conveyed ( 2 Samuel 11:1 ; 1 Chronicles 20:1 ). The host of Syria . Their king was Hazael ( 2 Kings 12:17 ), whether actually with them is perhaps not certain, but the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:17-25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:20

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 24:23

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