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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:8-19

We are here told what good effect the foregoing sermon had upon Asa. I. He grew more bold for God than he had been. His victory would inspire him with some new degrees of resolution, but this message from God with much more. Now he took courage. he saw how necessary a further reformation was, and what assurance he had of God's presence with him in it; and this made him daring, and helped him over the difficulties which had before deterred him and driven him off from the undertaking. Now he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:8

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet ,.... Some think that besides the above words of Azariah the son of Oded, a prophecy of Oded his father was related by him, though not recorded; but rather Oded here is the same with the son of Oded; and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read Azariah the son of Oded; and so does the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint version: he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:9

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them ,.... The proselytes of the gate: out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon : out of all the places in those tribes that had come off to him, or had been taken by him; for otherwise these belonged to the ten tribes under the government of Jeroboam, and his successors, and the next clause explains it: for they fell to him out of Israel abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him ; as was clear by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:10

So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem ,.... By the order of Asa, 2 Chronicles 15:9 , in the third month ; of the ecclesiastical year, the month Sivan, in which month was the day of Pentecost; and that very probably was the time of their gathering: in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa ; and which seems to be the year in which he fought the Ethiopians. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:11

And they offered unto the Lord the same time ,.... The Targum adds, on the feast of weeks, or Pentecost: of the spoil which they had brought; from the camp of the Ethiopians, and the cities of the Philistines: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep ; partly for burnt offerings, and partly for peace offerings, by way of thankfulness to the Lord for the victory he had given them, and for a feast at the making of the following covenant with him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:8

Renewed the altar - Dedicated it afresh, or perhaps enlarged it, that more sacrifices might be offered on it than ever before; for it cannot be supposed that this altar had no victims offered on it till the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, who had previously been so zealous in restoring the Divine worship. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:9

And the strangers - Many out of the different tribes, particularly out of Simeon, Ephraim, and Manasseh, having reflected that the Divine blessing was promised to the house of David, and finding the government of Jeroboam founded in idolatry, would naturally, through a spirit of piety, leave their own country, and go where they might enjoy the worship of the true God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:10

The third month - At the feast of pentecost which was held on the third month. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 15:11

The spoil which they had brought - The spoil which they had taken from Zerah and his auxiliaries, 2 Chronicles 14:14 , 2 Chronicles 14:15 . read more

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