2 Chronicles 15:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:7

Work … rewarded (so Jeremiah 31:16 ; Ecclesiastes 4:9 ; Proverbs 11:18 ; and compare with them the crown of all the rest, Genesis 15:1 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:7

Spiritual strength a sacred obligation. "Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak." This is in the imperative mood; it is a commandment. Strength is represented as a sacred duty; and weakness, consequently, as a culpable failure. To be spiritually strong is an obligation as much as an endowment. It may, indeed, be urged that there is— I. CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS , which is to be borne with rather than to be blamed. Some human spirits are less fully endowed than... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:7

The reward of Christian work. "Your work shall be rewarded." The very words recur in the prophecies of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 31:16 ); and the sentiment is frequently expressed by our Lord and by his apostles. It appears distinctly in the solemn statement of Jesus Christ, "The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father … and then he shall reward every man according to his works" ( Matthew 16:27 ; see also Romans 2:6 , Romans 2:7 ; 1 Corinthians 3:8 ; Revelation 22:12 ). What... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:1

Oded is by some identified with Iddo, the prophet and historian of the two preceding reigns. In the Hebrew the two names differ very slightly. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:3

“Israel” here is used generally for the whole people of God; and the reference is especially to the many apostasies in the days of the Judges, which were followed by repentance and deliverance. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:6

The allusion is probably to the destructions recorded in Judges 9:45; Judges 20:33-48. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 15:1-2

2 Chronicles 15:1-2. The Spirit of God came upon Azariah Both to instruct him what to say, and to enable him to say it plainly and boldly. And he went out to meet Asa Now returning victorious, with his army, from the war with the Ethiopians. And he said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa and all Judah, &c. He does not come out to meet them in order to compliment them, or congratulate their success, but to excite them to their duty: which is the proper business of God’s ministers, even with... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 15:3-4

2 Chronicles 15:3-4. For a long season Israel hath been, &c. Hebrew, many days have been to Israel without the true God, &c. The prophet’s design here is evidently to set before them the miserable consequences of forsaking God and his ordinances, and that if they should forsake him, there would be no way of having their grievances redressed, but by repenting and returning to him. In proof of this point he argues from facts, and observes, that in time past, when Israel forsook... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 15:5

2 Chronicles 15:5. In those times When Israel lived in the gross neglect of God and his law; there was no peace to him that went out, &c. Men could not go abroad about their private business without great danger; as it was in the days of Shamgar, the events of which time are a good comment on this text, Judges 5:6. Great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries Hebrew, Of these countries: that is, the various parts of the land of Israel, both within and without... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 15:6

2 Chronicles 15:6. Nation was destroyed of nation One part of the people of Israel destroyed the other by civil wars; of which see instances, Judges 9:23, &c., and 2 Chronicles 12:1, &c. As all Israel, so the several tribes of them are sometimes called nations. read more

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