2 Chronicles 16:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

Here is, I. A plain and faithful reproof given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making this league with Baasha. The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read of 1 Kgs. 16:1; 2 Chron. 19:2. We observed several things amiss in Asa's treaty with Benhadad. But that which the prophet here charges upon him as the greatest fault he was guilty of in that matter is his relying on the king of Syria and not on the Lord his God, 2 Chron. 16:7. He thought that,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

Then Asa was wroth with the seer ,.... For this faithful reproof of him, which was another instance of his sin and folly: and put him in a prison house ; in a very strait place, in which he could not turn himself, what we call "little ease"; some say it was the stocks, others a pillory he put him into: for he was in a rage with him because of this thing ; his passion rose very high, and to which he gave way, and was his infirmity: and Asa oppressed some of the people the same time... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was wroth with the seer - Instead of humbling himself, and deprecating the displeasure of the Lord, he persecuted his messenger: and having thus laid his impious hands upon the prophet, he appears to have got his heart hardened through the deceitfulness of sin; and then he began to oppress the people, either by unjust imprisonments, or excessive taxations. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The disappointing relapse of what had seemed tried worth, knowledge, and proved goodness. Mournful to the last degree is the impression made on us by what we are given to learn last of the career of King Asa. It is a reversal—not the reversal from bad to good, but of what seemed good and seemed sure, to bad. The humiliating lesson and fresh illustration of human caprice and weakness must be in like spirit and with proportionate humility noted and learned by ourselves. It is, indeed, a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The king and the prophet. I. THE PROPHET 'S MESSAGE TO THE KING . ( 2 Chronicles 16:7-9 .) 1 . The prophet ' s name. Hanani, "Favourable" (Gesenius); otherwise unknown, though conjectured to be the father of "Jehu the son of Hanani," who announced to Baasha the ruin of his house ( 1 Kings 16:1 ), and afterwards appeared at the court of Jehoshaphat ( 2 Chronicles 19:2 ), having probably been obliged to flee from the northern kingdom on account of his ill-omened... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

A prison-house ; literally, Hebrew, the house of the מַהְפֶכֶת ; i.e. "of the twisting or distortion;" i.e. "the stocks." The word occurs three other times only, all of them in Jeremiah viz. Jeremiah 20:2 , Jeremiah 20:3 ; Jeremiah 29:26 . (For a forcible parallel, see 1 Kings 22:27 .) And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time . This may throw some explanatory, though no exculpatory, light on Asa's wrath and violence towards Hanani; for it probably marks that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

Lessons from last years. We could well wish the account of the last days of Asa to have been different from what it is. Sombre clouds, casting a chill shadow, gathered in the evening sky. Not that there was actual defection, but there was an amount of infirmity that detracts from the honour which his earlier years had laid up for him. We cannot help feeling— I. THAT AGE IS NOT ALWAYS AS VENERABLE AS IT SHOULD BE ; not even a "good old age;" not even Christian old... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The rebuke of Hanani and his imprisonment by Asa, omitted by the writer of Kings, are among the most important of the additions to Asa’s history for which we are indebted to the author of Chronicles.2 Chronicles 16:7Escaped out of thine hand - Hanani means, “Hadst thou been faithful, and opposed in arms the joint host of Israel and Syria, instead of bribing the Syrian king to desert to thy side, the entire host would have been delivered into thy hand, as was Zerah’s. But now it is escaped from... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:10

2 Chronicles 16:10. Asa was wroth with the seer Though the reproof came from God by one that was known to be his messenger; though it was just, and the reasoning fair, and all intended for his good, yet he was wroth with the prophet; nay, he was in a rage with him, for telling him of his folly. Is this Asa? Is this he whose heart is said to have been perfect with the Lord? How needful that advice, Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall! A wise man! and yet in a rage! An... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:10

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