Chapter 14:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Kings 1 Chronicles
2 Kings 14
Concise Complete
Amaziah's good reign. (1-7) Amaziah provokes Jehoash
king of Israel, and is overcome. (8-14) He is slain by conspirators. (15-22)
Wicked reign of Jeroboam II. (23-29)
Verses 1-7
Amaziah began well, but did not go on so. It is not enough to do that which our
pious predecessors did, merely to keep up the common usage, but we must do it as
they did, from the same principle of faith and devotion, and with the same
sincerity and resolution.
Verses 8-14 For
some time after the division of the kingdoms, Judah suffered much from the
enmity of Israel. After Asa's time, it suffered more by the friendship of
Israel, and by the alliance made with them. Now we meet with hostility between
them again. How may a humble man smile to hear two proud and scornful men set
their wits on work, to vilify and undervalue one another! Unholy success excites
pride; pride excites contentions. The effects of pride in others, are
insufferable to those who are proud themselves. These are the sources of trouble
and sin in private life; but when they arise between princes, they become the
misery of their whole kingdoms. Jehoash shows Amaziah the folly of his
challenge; Thine heart has lifted thee up. The root of all sin is in the heart,
thence it flows. It is not Providence, the event, the occasion, whatever it is,
that makes men proud, secure, discontented, or the like, but their own hearts do
it.
Verses 15-22
Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects.
Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain.
Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully
made king till eleven years afterwards.
Verses 23-29
God raised up the prophet Jonah, and by him declared the purposes of his favour
to Israel. It is a sign that God has not cast off his people, if he continues
faithful ministers among them. Two reasons are given why God blessed them with
those victories: 1. Because the distress was very great, which made them objects
of his compassion. 2. Because the decree was not yet gone forth for their
destruction. Many prophets there had been in Israel, but none left prophecies in
writing till this age, and their prophecies are part of the Bible. Hosea began
to prophesy in the reign of this Jeroboam. At the same time Amos prophesied;
soon after Micah, then Isaiah, in the days of Ahaz and Hezekiah. Thus God, in
the darkest and most degenerate ages of the church, raised up some to be burning
and shining lights in it; to their own age, by their preaching and living, and a
few by their writings, to reflect light upon us in the last times.
Chapter 14:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Kings 1 Chronicles
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalm
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
