2 Chronicles 25:14-24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 25:24

In the house of God with Obed-edom - From 1 Chronicles 26:15 ; we learn that to Obed-edom and his descendants was allotted the keeping of the house of Asuppim or collections for the Divine treasury. And - the hostages - See on 2 Kings 14:14 ; (note). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:1-28

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:1-28

Another type of uncertain character. We are at once advised, in refer-once to Amaziah, that he "did right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart." The expression might be supposed to cover the description of a man whose life was in the main right, but who was betrayed by temptation into some serious sins, of which, like David, he bitterly repented, but genuinely repented, and was restored to peace -rod favour. No such interpretation, however, is here possible. And as... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:14

Brought the gods of the children of Seir … to be his gods. Amaziah's devout gratitude to God, and acknowledgment of him in the name Joktheel, was soon gone, and at the very last, grown confident, he loses all, and realizes the fulfilment of the "man of God's" prophetic denunciations. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:14-16

The declension of Amaziah. I. THE NATURE OF IT . A subsidence into idolatry. On returning from the slaughter of the Edomites he brought with him the gods of the children of Seir, and, setting them up to be his gods, bowed down him- self before them and burned incense unto them ( 2 Chronicles 25:14 ). That the Seirites were idolaters is confirmed by Moses, who gives Baal-hanan, "Baal is gracious," as one of their kings ( Genesis 36:38 ); by Josephus, who mentions that the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:15

He sent unto him a prophet. We are again not told whom . The tone of the prophet, and the words given us as his in the latter half of 2 Chronicles 25:16 , would lead us to think it was the same "man of God;" but we cannot assert it, and had it been the same, it would more probably have transpired. The history now often reminds us of 2 Chronicles 24:16 . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:15

The folly of irreligion. The remonstrance addressed by the prophet of the Lord to Amaziah was well grounded; his argument was conclusive. We arc simply astonished at— I. THE INFATUATION OF IDOLATRY . What insensate folly of the King of Judah to turn from the service of Jehovah, who had just granted him a signal proof of his power and his goodness, to the service and the worship of the gods of the very people he had defeated ( 2 Chronicles 25:14 )! Well might he be reproached... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:16

The chapter well keeps up in this verse its graphic character, though the culminating instances of it are yet to come. Forbear . The faithful prophet is "wise as the serpent, harmless as the dove." He does forbear, but not till the application of his speech, and all that was needful is most outspokenly (more so than before he had heard the usual coward fashion of the tyrant's threat) pronounced. His forbearing, therefore, is open to no charge of moral cowardice and unprophet-like... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:17

Took advice ; i.e. took counsel; as in foregoing verse, "Art thou made king's counsellor?" and as in same verse, "counselled" should read instead of "determined," The verb ( יָעץ ), in kal, niph; and once only in hithp; occurs just eighty times, always in this sense, and almost always so rendered in the Authorized Version, Let us see one another in the face. A refined analogy to this expression, with all its speaking significance, occurs in 2 Samuel 2:13 ; and, perhaps yet more... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 25:17-24

Human presumption. In the correspondence between these two kings and the action which ensued we have a very striking illustration of the evil of human presumption. I. IT MAY BE BEGOTTEN OF A SLIGHT SUCCESS . "Thou hast smitten the Edomites and thy heart lifteth thee up to boast" ( 2 Chronicles 25:19 ). Some men are soon inflated; even a little "knowledge puffeth up." And a very slight achievement, in art, or in song, or in speech, or in manufacture, is enough to fill... read more

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