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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:1-7

It was a great happiness to Israel that they had prophets among them; yet, while they were thus blessed, they were strangely addicted to idolatry, whereas, when the spirit of prophecy had ceased under the second temple, and the canon of the Old Temple was completed (which was constantly read in their synagogues), they were pure from idolatry; for the scriptures are of all other the most sure word of prophecy, and most effectual, and the church could not be so easily imposed upon by a... read more

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 15:3

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God ,.... The fear, worship, and service of him being greatly neglected by them for a long time; what period of time is referred to is not expressed, whether past, present, or to come, but left to be supplied; the Targum refers this to the time of the separation of the ten tribes, and the days of Jeroboam, when the calves were worshipped, and not the true God, and the teaching priests of the Lord were cast out, and the law of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:4

But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel ,.... When being carried captive by neighbouring nations, and oppressed; and they cried unto the Lord, and repented of their sins, and turned from them to him: and sought him ; by prayer and supplication: he was found of them ; and appeared for their help and deliverance, of which there are many instances in the book of Judges. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:5

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in ,.... There was no safety in going abroad for travellers from one part to another on account of trade and business, the highways being infested with thieves and robbers: but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries ; of the country villages, which were deserted, because of the plunders and depredations of them, Judges 5:6 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:6

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city ,.... Or one tribe of another; as the Ephraimites by the Gileadites, and the tribe of Benjamin by the other tribes; and Shechem by Abimelech, Judges 9:45 , for God did vex them with all adversity ; both with foreign enemies and civil wars; and now it is intimated that this would be their case again, should they not keep close to the Lord their God. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:7

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak ,.... Be hearty, earnest, and vigorous, and not languid and remiss in reforming the worship of God, which Asa had begun: for your work shall be rewarded ; with peace and prosperity at home, and success against enemies abroad, of which they had had a recent instance. 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:1-7

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 15:7

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

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

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

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