2 Chronicles 16:7-10 WEB

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

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:7

2 Chronicles 16:7. At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, &c. Here follows, in addition to what is recorded concerning Asa in the first book of Kings, a remarkable history, which relates his great weakness in his declining years, and God’s displeasure on account of it. Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not on the Lord thy God It is a great weakness in our nature, which cannot be too much guarded against, to be ever prone to forego our confidence in God for human... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:8

2 Chronicles 16:8 . And the Lubims Either the Libyans in Africa, or another people possibly descended from them, but now seated in some part of Arabia. See on 2 Chronicles 12:3. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:8

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