2 Chronicles 16:2-9 WEB

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

Preferable things. This cannot be counted among the estimable acts of Asa; we could wish that he had adopted other means for repelling the attack of Baasha—means more worthy of himself as a servant of Jehovah. The abstraction of the gold and silver from the treasury of the house of the Lord may speak to us of the preferableness of— I. ACQUISITION THAT WE CANNOT LOSE . The custodians of the temple no doubt rejoiced when Asa "brought into the house of God the things that his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

A king's (Asa's) mistake. I. WHEN IT HAPPENED . "In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa" ( 2 Chronicles 16:1 ). 1 . An obvious error. Baasha ascended the throne of Israel in Asa's third year ( 1 Kings 15:33 ), and died in his twenty-sixth ( 1 Kings 16:8 ). Yet it follows not that this blunder was in the original text. Most likely it crept in through transcription. The existence of such mistakes is not fatal to the claim of Scripture to be regarded as inspired. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

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 16:2

The writer of Chronicles omits the pedigree of this Benhadad King of Syria , given in the parallel "the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion." Benhidri is the name of Benhadad in the Assyrian monuments. The Septuagint gives Ader, which tallies with it, For Damascus , we have here Dar-mesek, instead of the more usual Dammesek of the parallel and Genesis 15:2 ; the resh representing (as in Syriac) the dagesh forte in mem. The parallel ( 1 Kings 15:18 ) says that Asa took all the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:3

The alliance of the King of Syria was sought now by one kingdom, now by the other. On what occasion Abijah made league with the king, the history does not say, either here or in the parallel, nor when he or his son resigned it. For there is, read " Let there be a league between me and thee, as between my father and thy father;" the short cut which Area thought to take now to his object was not the safe nor right one. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:4

Benhadad was apparently not very long in making up either his mind or his method. The bribe that tempted him, drawn from "the treasures" described, well replenished ( 2 Chronicles 15:18 ; and parallel, 1 Kings 15:15 ), was probably large. His method was to create a diversion in favour of his new ally, by "smiting" certain picked and highly important cities of Israel, mostly in northern Galilee, by name "Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtalli." Ijon . In Naphtali,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:5

And let his work cease . The parallel has not this, but follows the exact previous sentence with this, "and dwelt in Tirzah." It is the happy suggestion of one commentator (Professor James G. Murphy, ' Handbook: Chronicles') that this sentence may betray that it had been Baasha's intention to reside in Ramah . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:6

The affair seems thus to have come to an unbloody termination. The parallel ( 1 Kings 15:22 )is so much the more graphic that it contains the two additions that Asa "made a proclamation throughout all Judah," and one that "exempted none" from joining in the duty of moving all the stones and all the timber from Ramah, and diverting' them to the use of building Geba and Mizpah. This greatly contributed to command the road from the north to Jerusalem. Geba . This was Geba of Benjamin, as... 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

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

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