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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — II Kings
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 90,514 words · 402 reading sections
2 Kings 14:9
2 Kings 14:9 Ver. 9. And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah the king of Judah,.... By the return of his messengers: saying, the thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon; intending by this proverbial way of speaking to humble the pride of Amaziah; comparing him to a thistle or thorn, a…
211 wordsSECTION 2422 Kings 14:10
2 Kings 14:10 Ver. 10. Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up,.... Swelled him with pride and vanity on account of the victory he had obtained over the Edomites; which pride was at the bottom of his message to him, and that goes before a fall: Pr 16:18 glory of this, and tarry at home; be …
127 wordsSECTION 2432 Kings 14:11
2 Kings 14:11 Ver. 11. But Amaziah would not hear,.... Being given up to a judicial hardness of heart through pride; for this was of God, and by his overruling providence, that he might be punished for his idolatry, in setting up the gods of Edom to be his gods, and offering to them, 2Ch 25:14 therefore Jehoash king …
146 wordsSECTION 2442 Kings 14:12
2 Kings 14:12 Ver. 12. And Judah was put to the worse before Israel,.... Could not face them; but, as Josephus {d} says, a sudden fear and consternation seized them, and before they joined battle with the Israelites, turned their backs: and they fled every man to their tents; to their cities, as the Targum, and left …
69 wordsSECTION 2452 Kings 14:13
2 Kings 14:13 Ver. 13. And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh,.... And then they looked one another in the face indeed, but Amaziah must look very silly: and came to Jerusalem; the metropolis of Judah, with his royal prisoner: and broke down the w…
187 wordsSECTION 2462 Kings 14:14
2 Kings 14:14 Ver. 14. And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord,.... In 2Ch 25:24 it is added, "with Obededom", who, and his family, had the care of them by lot, see 1Ch 26:15 and in the treasures of the king's house; which were also spoiled and plundered: and…
150 wordsSECTION 2472 Kings 14:15
2 Kings 14:15 Ver. 15. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might,.... His valiant and mighty acts which he did in his wars with the Syrians, 2Ki 13:25, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah; a short account of which is given in the preceding verses: are they not written in the book of th…
92 wordsSECTION 2482 Kings 14:16
2 Kings 14:16 Ver. 16. And Jehoash slept with his fathers,.... Died as they died: and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; where they were: and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead; which was Jeroboam the second.…
42 wordsSECTION 2492 Kings 14:17
2 Kings 14:17 Ver. 17. And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. Which, with the fourteen he reigned contemporary with him, made the twenty nine years he reigned, 2Ki 14:2. The Vulgate Latin version is, "twenty five years". 2 Kings 14:18Ve…
1,259 wordsSECTION 2502 Kings 15:1
2 Kings 15:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 15 This chapter begins with the reign of Azariah king of Judah, 2Ki 15:1, and then gives a short account of the several kings of Israel, to the last of them; of Zachariah, 2Ki 15:8, of Shallum, 2Ki 15:13 of Menahem, 2Ki 15:16 of Pekahiah, 2Ki 15:23, of Pekah, succeeded by Hoshea, …
404 wordsSECTION 2512 Kings 15:2
2 Kings 15:2 Ver. 2. Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign,.... By the consent of the people and princes of Judah, 2Ki 14:21 and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem: exclusive of the eleven or twelve years of his minority, from his father's death: and his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem; o…
69 wordsSECTION 2522 Kings 15:3
2 Kings 15:3 Ver. 3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,.... At the beginning of his reign, and in an external way: according to all that his father Amaziah had done; who did not do what he did as David, sincerely and cordially, 2Ki 14:3.…
54 wordsSECTION 2532 Kings 15:4
2 Kings 15:4 Ver. 4. Save that the high places were not removed,.... That is, he did right, excepting in that instance, and which was the case of his father and other kings before him, and others afterwards, till Hezekiah came: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places; see 2Ki 12:3.…
57 wordsSECTION 2542 Kings 15:5
2 Kings 15:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord smote the king,.... With leprosy; the reason of it was, because he intruded into the priest's office, and went into the temple to burn incense on the altar of incense, 2Ch 26:19, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death; but how long it was to it from his being smitten cannot…
325 wordsSECTION 2552 Kings 15:6
2 Kings 15:6 Ver. 6. And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?] In the history of the reigns of those kings; some of them are recorded in the canonical book of the Chronicles, 2Ch 26:1 and some were written by the prophet Isaiah,…
69 wordsSECTION 2562 Kings 15:7
2 Kings 15:7 Ver. 7. So Azariah slept with his fathers,.... Or died, when he had reigned fifty two years: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; but not in the sepulchres of the kings, but in the field of the burial, or the burying ground which belonged to them, because he was a leper, 2Ch 26:23. …
128 wordsSECTION 2572 Kings 15:8
2 Kings 15:8 Ver. 8. In the thirty eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. Since Azariah began to reign in the twenty seventh of Jeroboam, 2Ki 15:1, and Jeroboam reigned forty one years, 2Ki 14:23, his last year must be the fifteenth or sixteenth …
137 wordsSECTION 2582 Kings 15:9
2 Kings 15:9 Ver. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done,.... Even all his predecessors, from the time of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, from whose sin, in worshipping the calves, they departed not.…
47 wordsSECTION 2592 Kings 15:10
2 Kings 15:10 Ver. 10. And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,.... A friend of his, as Josephus {q} calls him, encouraged by the dissatisfaction of the people to him: and smote him before the people, and slew him; in a public manner, the people consenting to it, and approving of it, not liking Zachariah …
81 wordsSECTION 2602 Kings 15:11
2 Kings 15:11 Ver. 11. And the rest of the acts of Zachariah,.... During his six months' reign, and what he might do before in the interregnum: behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel: for be they more or fewer, good or bad, they were all recorded there which were of any moment.…
62 wordsSECTION 2612 Kings 15:12
2 Kings 15:12 Ver. 12. This was the word of the Lord which he spake unto Jehu,.... Which was now fulfilled in the short reign of Zachariah: saying, thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation; see 2Ki 10:30, and so it came to pass; as every word of the Lord does, not one fails; for after Jeh…
77 wordsSECTION 2622 Kings 15:13
2 Kings 15:13 Ver. 13. Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah,.... The same with Azariah: he is sometimes called by one name, and sometimes by the other, see 2Ki 14:21, and he reigned a full month in Samaria: and no longer; so soon were the conspiracy against h…
70 wordsSECTION 2632 Kings 15:14
2 Kings 15:14 Ver. 14. For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah,.... A city in the tribe of Manasseh, the royal city of the kings of Israel before Omri, of which See Gill on "Jos 12:24", whether Menahem was of this city, or was now besieging it with an army he had the command of, as Josephus {r} suggests, is no…
136 wordsSECTION 2642 Kings 15:15
2 Kings 15:15 Ver. 15. And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. In which, no doubt, an account of the cause of the conspiracy, and of the persons assisting to him in it, was given, with other things done in his…
66 wordsSECTION 2652 Kings 15:16
2 Kings 15:16 Ver. 16. Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah,.... The Jewish writers commonly take this Tiphsah to be without the land of Israel, the same with that in 1Ki 4:24 on the borders of Syria, and near the Euphrates; but it seems to be some place nearer Sama…
187 wordsSECTION 2662 Kings 15:17
2 Kings 15:17 Ver. 17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel,.... Shallum reigning but one month, both their reigns began the same year.…
39 wordsSECTION 2672 Kings 15:18
2 Kings 15:18 Ver. 18. And he did that which was evil,.... The same character is given of him as of those before him, 2Ki 15:9.…
28 wordsSECTION 2682 Kings 15:19
2 Kings 15:19 Ver. 19. And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land,.... The land of Israel, he invaded it; a Jewish chronologer {u} calls him Pulbelicho; and he is generally thought to be the same with Belochus or Belesis, governor of Babylon, who, with Arbaces the Mede, slew Sardanapalus, said to be the last of…
2,067 wordsSECTION 2692 Kings 16:1
2 Kings 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 16 This chapter contains the reign of Ahaz only, relates his idolatry, 2Ki 16:1 his hiring the king of Assyria with the treasure of the temple, and his own, to assist him against the kings of Israel and Syria, who besieged him, 2Ki 16:5, his seeing the altar of an idol at Damascus…
188 wordsSECTION 2702 Kings 16:2
2 Kings 16:2 Ver. 2. Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem,.... The same number of years his father did: and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord God, like David his father; his more remote progenitor, nor even like his more immediate father, from wh…
89 wordsSECTION 2712 Kings 16:3
2 Kings 16:3 Ver. 3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel..... Worshipping the calves as they did; which, as it was contrary to the religious sentiments in which he was educated, so against his political interest, which was the only, or at least the principal thing, which swayed with the kings of Israel to …
253 wordsSECTION 2722 Kings 16:4
2 Kings 16:4 Ver. 4. And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills,.... Which none of the kings of Judah before him ever did; for though they connived at this practice in the people, they never encouraged it by their own example; and very probably he offered sacrifices there to idols, see 2C…
119 wordsSECTION 2732 Kings 16:5
2 Kings 16:5 Ver. 5. Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war,.... To fight with Ahaz, moved to it by the Lord, to chastise Ahaz for his idolatry, 2Ki 15:37 but could not overcome him; so as to take Jerusalem, and set up another king there, as their scheme was, I…
93 wordsSECTION 2742 Kings 16:6
2 Kings 16:6 Ver. 6. At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,.... A port on the Red sea, that formerly belonged to Edom, taken from them by David, retaken by them when they revolted in Joram's time, and perhaps taken by Amaziah again, since his son Azariah rebuilt it, and restored it to Judah, 2Ki 14…
334 wordsSECTION 2752 Kings 16:7
2 Kings 16:7 Ver. 7. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,.... Of whom see 2Ki 15:29 saying, [I am] thy servant, and thy son; signifying, that he would be his vassal, and become tributary to him, and serve him as a servant to his master, or a son his father, on condition he would come to his assi…
144 wordsSECTION 2762 Kings 16:8
2 Kings 16:8 Ver. 8. And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord,.... Which Uzziah and Jotham had put there; for all that was found there in the times of Amaziah was taken away by Jehoash king of Israel, 2Ki 14:14 and in the treasures of the king's house; whatever gold and silver he had …
85 wordsSECTION 2772 Kings 16:9
2 Kings 16:9 Ver. 9. And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him,.... Complied with his request: for the king of Syria went up against Damascus, and took it; the metropolis of the kingdom of Syria, and so made a powerful diversion in favour of the king of Judah: and carried the people of it captive to Kir; not Cyrene…
140 wordsSECTION 2782 Kings 16:10
2 Kings 16:10 Ver. 10. And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,.... When he heard he was come thither, and had taken it, to congratulate him on the victory, and to give him thanks for his assistance; which place from Jerusalem was one hundred and sixty miles, according to Bunting {q} and…
197 wordsSECTION 2792 Kings 16:11
2 Kings 16:11 Ver. 11. And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus,.... Exactly according to the size, form, figure, and carved work of it, though expressly contrary to the command of God; which fixed both the form and matter of the altar of God, with everything appertai…
147 wordsSECTION 2802 Kings 16:12
2 Kings 16:12 Ver. 12. And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar,.... Looked at it, and liked it, being exactly according to the pattern he had sent: and the king approached the altar, and offered thereon; either by a priest, or it may be in his own person, having no regard to the laws and appo…
86 wordsSECTION 2812 Kings 16:13
2 Kings 16:13 Ver. 13. And he burnt his burnt offering, and his meat offering,.... Which went together according to the law of God, and was imitated by the Heathens: and poured his drink offering; a libation of wine, as probably it was, like what they used according to the Levitical law: and sprinkled the blood of h…
90 wordsSECTION 2822 Kings 16:14
2 Kings 16:14 Ver. 14. And he brought also the brasen altar which was before the Lord,.... That which Solomon made, 2Ch 4:1, which stood in the court by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, Le 1:5 from the forefront of the house; the frontispiece of the temple, which was at the eastern gate …
176 wordsSECTION 2832 Kings 16:15
2 Kings 16:15 Ver. 15. And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,.... Who was not to be commanded by the king in matters of worship, but to attend to the laws and institutions of God: saying, upon the great altar; meaning the new one, which either was of a larger size than the altar of God, or was greater in …
220 wordsSECTION 2842 Kings 16:16
2 Kings 16:16 Ver. 16. Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded. Not only concerning the structure of the altar, but the sacrifices to be offered on it; like king like priest, both apostates and idolaters. 2 Kings 16:17Ver. 17. And King Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed th…
638 wordsSECTION 2852 Kings 17:1
2 Kings 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17 This chapter relates the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, and how it came about, 2Ki 17:1, the cause of it, their idolatry, which they persisted in, notwithstanding the remonstrances made against it, 2Ki 17:7, in whose stead were placed people from different parts, who ex…
286 wordsSECTION 2862 Kings 17:2
2 Kings 17:2 Ver. 2. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. He did not worship Baal, as some of them had done; and he could not worship the calves, as all of them had, for they were carried away by the Assyrians in the former captivities, as the Je…
200 wordsSECTION 2872 Kings 17:3
2 Kings 17:3 Ver. 3. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria,.... Which some take to be the same with Tiglathpileser, see 1Ch 5:26 but he rather seems to be his son; his name was to be found, as Josephus {w} relates, in the archives of the Tyrians, against whom he had an expedition; his name is Salmanassar in …
111 wordsSECTION 2882 Kings 17:4
2 Kings 17:4 Ver. 4. And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,.... That he was forming a scheme to rebel against him, and cast off his yoke; of this he had intelligence by spies he sent, and placed to observe him very probably: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt; to treat with him, and enter int…
213 wordsSECTION 2892 Kings 17:5
2 Kings 17:5 Ver. 5. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,.... Of Israel, there being none to oppose his march; Hoshea not daring to come out, and meet him and fight him: and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years; so long the city held out against him, see 2Ki 18:9.…
60 wordsSECTION 2902 Kings 17:6
2 Kings 17:6 Ver. 6. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,..... Which was the last year of his reign, and to be reckoned either from the time of his reigning in full power and authority, or from his first casting off the Assyrian yoke; See Gill on "2Ki 17:1" and carried Israel away into Assyri…
382 wordsSECTION 2912 Kings 17:7
2 Kings 17:7 Ver. 7. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God,.... By committing idolatry, which is the sin enlarged upon in the following discourse, as the cause of their being carried captive: which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh …
99 wordsSECTION 2922 Kings 17:8
2 Kings 17:8 Ver. 8. And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel,.... Meaning the Canaanites, in whose idolatrous ways they walked, and whom they imitated; though their ejection out of the land should have been a warning to them, and they were the more inexcusab…
97 wordsSECTION 2932 Kings 17:9
2 Kings 17:9 Ver. 9. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God,.... As being partly conscious to themselves that they were not right, and ashamed to commit them openly; and partly as foolishly imagining, that, being done privately, they were not seen and observ…
235 wordsSECTION 2942 Kings 17:10
2 Kings 17:10 Ver. 10. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree. That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of stone, and of wood, as the latter were, in such places as Heathens were wont to do; see Jer 3:6 See …
116 wordsSECTION 2952 Kings 17:11
2 Kings 17:11 Ver. 11. And there they burnt incense in all the high places,.... As even the tribe of Judah did, which is observed in all the preceding reigns: as did the Heathen whom the Lord carried away before them: the Canaanites, and therefore they might justly expect to be carried captive also: and wrought wick…
73 wordsSECTION 2962 Kings 17:12
2 Kings 17:12 Ver. 12. For they served idols,.... Baalim, as the Targum; dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as they are often called in Scripture; and Sterculius was one of the names of Saturn, an Heathen deity, which he had, as is supposed, by his finding out the method of making land fruitful with dung {i}: wher…
89 wordsSECTION 2972 Kings 17:13
2 Kings 17:13 Ver. 13. Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers,.... Against their sins, reproving them for them, dehorting them from them, exhorting them to repent and leave them; as in all preceding reigns, by Ahijah the Shilonite, by Elijah and Elisha, by…
134 wordsSECTION 2982 Kings 17:14
2 Kings 17:14 Ver. 14. Notwithstanding, they would not hear,.... Their instructions, advice, and admonitions, and obey them: but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God: as Terah and Nahor, who were idolaters; or rather, their fathers in the wilderness, that…
96 wordsSECTION 2992 Kings 17:15
2 Kings 17:15 Ver. 15. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,.... At Sinai and Horeb, see Ex 24:8, and his testimonies which he testified against them; calling heaven and earth to witness what he would do to them if they broke his laws, De 4:26, and which were so many testif…
204 wordsSECTION 3002 Kings 17:16
2 Kings 17:16 Ver. 16. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God,.... Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of them all, Jas 2:10 and made them molten images, [even] two calves; which they set up at Dan and Bethel, in the times of their first king Jeroboam,…
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