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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 17:17
2 Kings 17:17 Ver. 17. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire,.... To Baal or Moloch, which were the same, and represented the sun, which, as the above writer observes, presides in the element of fire; this was done either by way of lustration, or so as to be burnt, see 2Ki 16:3 and u…
146 wordsSECTION 3022 Kings 17:18
2 Kings 17:18 Ver. 18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel,.... Nothing being more provoking to him than idolatry:and removed them out of his sight; not out of the reach of his all seeing eye, but from all tokens of his favour, from the good land he had given them, and all the benefits and privileges of it:t…
3,432 wordsSECTION 3032 Kings 18:1
2 Kings 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 18 This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, the reformation he made in the kingdom, and the prosperity that attended him when Israel was carried captive, 2Ki 18:1 and gives an account of the siege of Jerusalem by the king of Assyria, and of the distress H…
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2 Kings 18:2 Ver. 2. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign,.... Now as Ahaz his father began to reign at twenty, and reigned sixteen, he must die at thirty six; so that this son of his must be born to him when at eleven years of age, for only so many years there be between twenty five and thirty six,…
397 wordsSECTION 3052 Kings 18:3
2 Kings 18:3 Ver. 3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. Some of the kings of Judah, that were better than some others, are said to do that which was right, but not like David; or they did as he did, but not according to all that he did, as is here said…
71 wordsSECTION 3062 Kings 18:4
2 Kings 18:4 Ver. 4. He removed the high places,.... Which the best of the kings of Judah never attempted, and which is observed of them to their discredit: and broke the images, and cut down the groves; the idols his father set up and served, 2Ki 16:4, groves and idols in them, were early instances of idolatry; See …
425 wordsSECTION 3072 Kings 18:5
2 Kings 18:5 Ver. 5. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel,.... To be his protector and defender, and had no dependence on idols as an arm of flesh; the Targum is, he trusted in the Word of the Lord God; not in Nehushtan, but in him the brasen serpent was a type of, even in the Word and Son of God, his alone Saviour an…
149 wordsSECTION 3082 Kings 18:6
2 Kings 18:6 Ver. 6. For he clave to the Lord,.... To his worship and service; to the fear of the Lord, as the Targum: and departed not from following him; from his worship, as the same paraphrase: but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses; both moral, ceremonial, and judicial.…
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2 Kings 18:7 Ver. 7. And the Lord was with him,.... The Word of the Lord was for his help, as the Targum: and he prospered whithersoever he went forth; that is, to war: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria: which is explained in the next clause: and served him not; he refused to be his servant, as his father…
110 wordsSECTION 3102 Kings 18:8
2 Kings 18:8 Ver. 8. He smote the Philistines even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof,.... Who in his father's time had invaded Judah, and taken many cities and towns in it, which Hezekiah now recovered, and drove them to their own territories, of which Gaza was one; see 2Ch 28:18 from the tower of the watchmen to th…
81 wordsSECTION 3112 Kings 18:9
2 Kings 18:9 Ver. 9. And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah,.... In the beginning of it: which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel: the beginning of his seventh: that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it; see 2Ki 17:5.…
57 wordsSECTION 3122 Kings 18:10
2 Kings 18:10 Ver. 10. And at the end of three years they took it,.... That is, at the first end of them, at the beginning, in which sense the phrase is taken in De 15:1, even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken: see 2Ki 17:6.…
62 wordsSECTION 3132 Kings 18:11
2 Kings 18:11 Ver. 11. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,.... Of the places he disposed of them in, after mentioned, See Gill on "2Ki 17:6".…
33 wordsSECTION 3142 Kings 18:12
2 Kings 18:12 Ver. 12. Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord,.... In his law, and by his prophets: but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded; which evils are at large insisted on in the preceding chapter as the cause of their captivity: and would not hear them, nor d…
78 wordsSECTION 3152 Kings 18:13
2 Kings 18:13 Ver. 13. Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,.... Eight years after the captivity of Israel: did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them; many of them, the frontier towns, and proceeded as far as Lachish; ambitious of enlarging his dominions, his…
198 wordsSECTION 3162 Kings 18:14
2 Kings 18:14 Ver. 14. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,.... A city in the tribe of Judah, about twenty miles from Jerusalem, towards the southwest {q}; which the king of Assyria was now besieging, 2Ch 32:9 at first Hezekiah made provision to defend himself, and encouraged his people n…
289 wordsSECTION 3172 Kings 18:15
2 Kings 18:15 Ver. 15. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. To make up the three hundred talents of silver, for which purpose he exhausted both, which had been done more than once before by the kings of Judah; these were their resources…
70 wordsSECTION 3182 Kings 18:16
2 Kings 18:16 Ver. 16. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord,.... The plates of gold with which they were covered; or scraped off the gold from them, as the Targum interprets it: and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid: or the posts, as the Targum, …
164 wordsSECTION 3192 Kings 18:17
2 Kings 18:17 Ver. 17. And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem,.... Notwithstanding he took the above large sum of money of him, so false and deceitful was he: these were three generals of his army, whom he sent to besiege Jerusa…
125 wordsSECTION 3202 Kings 18:18
2 Kings 18:18 Ver. 18. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:19Ver. 19. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:20Ver. 20. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:21Ver. 21. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:22Ver. 22. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:23Ver. 23. See Gill on "2Ki 18:17" 2 Kings 18:24Ver. 24. See Gill on "2Ki 18:…
228 wordsSECTION 3212 Kings 19:1
2 Kings 19:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 19 This chapter relates that King Hezekiah, on a report made to him of Rabshakeh's speech, sent a message to the prophet Isaiah to pray for him, who returned him a comfortable and encouraging answer, 2Ki 19:1 and that upon Rabshakeh's return to the king of Assyria, he sent to Heze…
344 wordsSECTION 3222 Kings 19:37
2 Kings 19:37 Ver. 37. See Gill on "2Ki 19:1" John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible.…
19 wordsSECTION 3232 Kings 20:1
2 Kings 20:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 20 In this chapter is an account of Hezekiah's sickness, and of the means of his recovery, and of the sign given of it, 2Ki 20:1 of the king of Babylon's congratulatory letter to him upon it, when he showed to the messengers that brought it his treasures, in the pride and vanity o…
152 wordsSECTION 3242 Kings 20:4
2 Kings 20:4 Ver. 4. And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court,.... Of the king's palace, which is called the other court within the porch, 1Ki 7:8 so it is according to the marginal reading, which we follow; but the textual reading is, "the middle city"; Jerusalem was divided into three par…
90 wordsSECTION 3252 Kings 20:5
2 Kings 20:5 Ver. 5. Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,.... The king of them, as the Targum: thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; See Gill on "Isa 38:5" behold, I will heal thee; instantly, miraculously; and none but God could heal him, his…
128 wordsSECTION 3262 Kings 20:6
2 Kings 20:6 Ver. 6. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years,.... See Gill on "Isa 38:5" and I will deliver thee, and this city, out of the hand of the king of Assyria; by which it appears that this sickness and recovery were before the destruction of the Assyrian army: and I will defend this city for mine own sa…
103 wordsSECTION 3272 Kings 20:7
2 Kings 20:7 Ver. 7. And Isaiah said, take a lump of figs,.... Not moist figs, but a cake of dried figs, as the word used signifies, and so the less likely to have any effect in curing the boil: and they took, and laid it on the boil, and he recovered; made a plaster of it, and laid it on the ulcer, and it was healed…
206 wordsSECTION 3282 Kings 20:8
2 Kings 20:8 Ver. 8. And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah,.... Or "had said", {w} before the plaster of figs was directed to, or, however, laid on, and as soon as he was told he should be healed: what shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day? not that he d…
133 wordsSECTION 3292 Kings 20:9
2 Kings 20:9 Ver. 9. And Isaiah said, this sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken,.... Cure him of his disorder, so that he should be able to go to the temple on the third day: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? that is, the shadow of the su…
89 wordsSECTION 3302 Kings 20:10
2 Kings 20:10 Ver. 10. And Hezekiah answered, it is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees,.... That is, it was comparatively so, otherwise to go down ten degrees at once would be extraordinary and miraculous; but that was more agreeable to the nature and course of it to go forward, and so the miracle wou…
234 wordsSECTION 3312 Kings 20:11
2 Kings 20:11 Ver. 11. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord,.... Or prayed, as the Targum; and was very earnest in prayer, that what Hezekiah had desired might be granted: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz; Ben Gersom understands it not of the sun itse…
74 wordsSECTION 3322 Kings 20:12
2 Kings 20:12 Ver. 12. At that time Berodachbaladan,.... He is called Merodachbaladan, Isa 39:1, so here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; See Gill on "Isa 39:1"; and by Metasthenes {z} his father is called Merodach, and he Ben Merodach, who reigned twenty one years, and his father fifty two; from hence …
124 wordsSECTION 3332 Kings 20:20
2 Kings 20:20 Ver. 20. And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might,.... Which he exerted in his wars with his enemies, and in the reformation of religion, and abolition of idolatry: and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city; at the same time that he cut it off from the enemy w…
110 wordsSECTION 3342 Kings 20:21
2 Kings 20:21 Ver. 21. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers,.... Died, as they did; no mention is here made of the place of his burial, but there is in 2Ch 32:33 where he is said to be buried in the principal part of the sepulchres of the sons of David, and to have honour done him at his death by the inhabitants of Jud…
123 wordsSECTION 3352 Kings 21:1
2 Kings 21:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 21 In this chapter a short history is given of the two wicked reigns of Manasseh and Amon; Manasseh is charged with great idolatry, with enchantments and witchcrafts, and seducing the children of Israel, 2Ki 21:1 and a prophecy is given out of the destruction of Jerusalem for his …
261 wordsSECTION 3362 Kings 21:2
2 Kings 21:2 Ver. 2. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord,.... Was guilty of idolatry: after the abomination of the Heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel: the old Canaanites; he committed idolatry in imitation of them, and as the Phoenicians now did before the children of Is…
76 wordsSECTION 3372 Kings 21:3
2 Kings 21:3 Ver. 3. For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,.... The temples and altars upon them, see 2Ki 18:4, and he reared up altars for Baal; in the high places he rebuilt: and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel: which was either an idol itself, or a shade of trees w…
108 wordsSECTION 3381Ki 16:33
1Ki 16:33 and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them: the sun, moon, and stars, particularly the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Venus.…
27 wordsSECTION 3392 Kings 21:4
2 Kings 21:4 Ver. 4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord,.... In the holy place, as distinct from the courts in the next verse; and these were sacred to the idols of the Gentiles: of which the Lord said, in Jerusalem will I put my name; in the temple there, devoted to his service, called by his name, and whe…
87 wordsSECTION 3402 Kings 21:5
2 Kings 21:5 Ver. 5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven,.... Sun, moon, and stars: in the two courts of the house of the Lord; in the court of the priests, and in the court of the people; and all this must be supposed to be done, not as soon as he began to reign, but when he was grown up to man's estate, …
107 wordsSECTION 3412 Kings 21:6
2 Kings 21:6 Ver. 6. And he made his son pass through the fire,.... To Molech, after the manner of the old Canaanites and Phoenicians; his son Amon, that succeeded him, and other children, as appears from 2Ch 33:6, where mention is made of the place where it was done, the valley of the son of Hinnom: and observed tim…
140 wordsSECTION 3422 Kings 21:7
2 Kings 21:7 Ver. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,.... Which was either an image that had been placed in a grove planted by him, and now removed into the house or temple of the Lord; or, as some think, this was a representation of a grove, a carved grove of gold or silver, in the…
262 wordsSECTION 3432 Kings 21:8
2 Kings 21:8 Ver. 8. Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers,.... Or suffer them to be carried captive into another land, as in the times of the judges; that is, on the following condition: only if they will observe to do according to all the law that my servant…
83 wordsSECTION 3442 Kings 21:9
2 Kings 21:9 Ver. 9. But they hearkened not,.... To the voice of God in his law by Moses, and were not obedient to it: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel: he set up more idols, and drew the people into more and greater idolatries, than …
110 wordsSECTION 3452 Kings 21:10
2 Kings 21:10 Ver. 10. And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets,.... Who prophesied in the days of Manasseh; and were, according to the Jewish chronology {f}, Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk: saying: as follows. {f} Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20. p. 55.…
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2 Kings 21:11 Ver. 11. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations,.... Before named, 2Ki 21:3, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did that were before him; one of the seven nations of Canaan, a principal of them, and which is put for all the rest: and hath made Judah also to sin with…
81 wordsSECTION 3472 Kings 21:12
2 Kings 21:12 Ver. 12. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel,.... Who, though kind and gracious to Israel as their covenant God, is yet just and righteous, as well as he is a sovereign Being and Lord of all: behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears sh…
108 wordsSECTION 3482 Kings 21:13
2 Kings 21:13 Ver. 13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria,.... The Targum is, the line of destruction; and the sense is, that the same measure should be measured to Jerusalem as was to Samaria; that is, the same lot and portion should befall one as the other, that is, be utterly destroyed: and the …
271 wordsSECTION 3492 Kings 21:14
2 Kings 21:14 Ver. 14. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,.... The whole land of Canaan was the Lord's inheritance; ten tribes in it were already removed, only Judah with Benjamin was left, and the Lord threatens to forsake that remnant: and deliver them into the hands of their enemies, and they shall…
74 wordsSECTION 3502 Kings 21:15
2 Kings 21:15 Ver. 15. Because they have done that which was evil in my sight,.... Committed idolatry: and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day; being always prone to idolatry, so provoking to God, and which they were guilty of quickly after they came out of…
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2 Kings 21:16 Ver. 16. Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,.... Putting to death the prophets that reproved him and his people for their idolatries, and such who would not comply therewith; and it is commonly said, both by Jewish and Christian writers, that Isaiah was slain, and even sawn asunder by him, …
114 wordsSECTION 3522 Kings 21:17
2 Kings 21:17 Ver. 17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did,.... Both good and bad, for he repented, and was humbled, and did many good things afterwards, though not recorded in this book: and his sin that he sinned; his idolatry: are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of…
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2 Kings 21:18 Ver. 18. And Manasseh slept with his fathers,....] Or died, after a reign of fifty five years, and a life of sixty seven: and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; whether the burial of him here was his own choice, judging himself unworthy to lie with the kings of Judah, who …
778 wordsSECTION 3542 Kings 22:1
2 Kings 22:1 INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 22 This chapter begins with the age and character of Josiah king of Judah, 2Ki 22:1, relates his orders for repairing the temple, 2Ki 22:3, his attention to the book of the law, which was found, and read to him, and the effect it had upon him, 2Ki 22:8, the command he gave to cert…
197 wordsSECTION 3552 Kings 22:2
2 Kings 22:2 Ver. 2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,.... In the affair of religious worship especially, as well as in other things: and walked in all the ways of David his father; in his religious ways, in which he never departed from his God: and turned not aside to the right hand or to th…
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2 Kings 22:3 Ver. 3. And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Josiah,.... Not of his age, but of his reign, as appears from 2Ch 34:8 nor is what follows the first remarkable act he did in a religious way; for elsewhere we read of what he did in the eighth and twelfth years of his reign, 2Ch 34:3, that the k…
130 wordsSECTION 3572 Kings 22:4
2 Kings 22:4 Ver. 4. Go up to Hilkiah the high priest,.... Who had an apartment in the temple; there was an Hilkiah, a priest, in those times, who was the father of Jeremiah the prophet, Jer 1:1, whom an Arabic writer {l} takes to be the same with this; but it is not likely: that he may sum the silver which is brough…
199 wordsSECTION 3582 Kings 22:5
2 Kings 22:5 Ver. 5. And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord,.... That were overseers of the workmen, whose names are mentioned, 2Ch 34:12 into their hands the money was to be delivered by the high priest, when he had taken the account of it, and…
152 wordsSECTION 3592 Kings 22:6
2 Kings 22:6 Ver. 6. Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons,.... Who were employed, some in mending the woodwork, and others in repairing the stone walls and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house; not only money was to be given them for their workmanship, but to buy timber and stone to work with.…
58 wordsSECTION 3602 Kings 22:7
2 Kings 22:7 Ver. 7. Howbeit, there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand,.... No account was kept between the high priest, and the king's scribe who delivered the money and the overseers of the workmen, who received it from them the latter were not called to any account by th…
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