2 Chronicles 15:8-15

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:12

And they entered into a covenant ,.... Asa and all his people; that is, as Piscator remarks, they went between the pieces of the calf cut asunder, for the confirmation of the covenant, see Jeremiah 34:18 , to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul ; to serve and worship him most truly, sincerely, and cordially. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:13

That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death ,.... That obstinately refused to worship him, and served other gods, which by the law was deserving of death, Deuteronomy 17:2 , whether small or great, whether man or woman ; without any regard to rank or dignity, age or sex. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:14

And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice ,.... As not being ashamed of the oath they took, and that there might be witnesses of it, and that it might be clear they did not equivocate in but expressed themselves in plain words: and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets ; showing that the oath was not extorted from them unwillingly, but that they took it with the utmost cheerfulness, and with all the demonstrations of joy and gladness imaginable. read more

John Gill

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

And all Judah rejoiced at the oath ,.... The greater part of them; for some there might be who were dissemblers: for they had sworn with all their heart ; in the sincerity and uprightness of their souls: and sought him with their whole desire ; none being more or so desirable as he: and he was found of them : and favoured them with his presence: and the Lord gave them rest round about ; from all their enemies. 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

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