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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-8

Here is, I. Asa's general character (2 Chron. 14:2): He did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 1. He aimed at pleasing God, studied to approve himself to him. Happy are those that walk by this rule, to do that which is right, not in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but in the eyes of God. 2. He saw God's eye always upon him, and that helped much to keep him to what was good and right. 3. God graciously accepted him in what he did, and approved his conduct... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1

So Abijah slept with his fathers , 1 Kings 15:8 . and Asa his son reigned in his stead; in his days the land was quiet ten years ; the Targum is, the land of Israel; but much better the Septuagint, the land of Judah; these ten years, in which it had rest from war, were the first three years of Asa's reign, and the first seven of Baasha's, according to Jarchi, and which seems right; after which there was war between them all their days, see 1 Kings 15:32 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:2

And Asa did that which was good and right ,.... See 1 Kings 15:11 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:3

For he took away the altars of the strange gods ,.... Or of a strange people, of the Zidonians, Ammonites, and Moabites, which had remained from the times of Solomon, and which he built for his wives, 1 Kings 11:7 . and the high places ; built for idols; for as for those on which the true God was worshipped, they were not removed in his days, 1 Kings 15:14 . and brake down the images : or statues, or pillars, erected to the honour of idols, and on which the images of them were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:4

And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers ,.... To pray to him, and him only, and attend his worship and service; this he did by a public edict: and to do the law and the commandment : to observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and civil. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:5

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images ,.... Perhaps the high places in 2 Chronicles 14:3 design only the high places and altars in Jerusalem, and near it; these in all the rest of the cities of the land; the "images were", as the word signifies, "sun images", either made in the form of the sun, or dedicated to it, or temples for it; See Gill on Leviticus 26:30 , and the kingdom was quiet before him ; he had no foreign enemy to molest him, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 14:1

The land was quiet ten years - Calmet thinks these years should be counted from the fifth to the fifteenth of Asa's reign. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 14:2

Did that which was good - He attended to what the law required relative to the worship of God. He was no idolater, though, morally speaking, he was not exempt from faults, 1 Kings 15:14 . He suppressed idolatry universally, and encouraged the people to worship the true God: see 2 Chronicles 14:3-5 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1

Buried … in the city of David (see our note, 2 Chronicles 12:16 ). Asa his son . If, according to the suggestion of our note, 2 Chronicles 10:8 and 2 Chronicles 12:13 , the alleged forty-one years of the age of Rehoboam be made twenty-one, it will follow that Asa could not now be more than a boy of some twelve years of age. It is against that suggestion that there is no sign of this, by word or deed, in what is here said of the beginning of Asa's reign; the signs are to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 14:1-5

Rest on every side. It is significant enough that the Chronicler considered it a noteworthy fact that "in his days the land was quiet ten years." It indicates very forcibly that the chronic condition of the country in those times was one of unsettlement and strife. We should think it strange, indeed, if the historian of our country thought it worth while to record that for ten years the sovereign "had no war" ( 2 Chronicles 14:6 ). But it is painful to think that for very many centuries,... read more

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