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The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Chronicles
Philip Chapman Barker [d.1904] · 404,925 words · 452 reading sections
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the glRdnl!llll of Luther at finding the Bible in the convent at Erfurth. And ought to be 1 2. ..4 n,a.wn for special 1 . w ~ u it generally i11 to all who know its value as a revelation of Divine willdom and love, &11d can appreciate itll power to infiuenoe the beam and live11 of men. ill. Tm: Bnn.11: BEAD. A blet…
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-were uaembled as participants In this high transaction (cf. eh. xv. 13; Deut.. I. 17). Ill. TBB PJIBLIIIOl'ARIU. 1. ~ reading of ,,,IJ oook of tM C011rna11I. The part; read most likely included Exod. xxiv., the readers being, not the king himself (.Adam Clarke), but others, presumably Shaphan, Hilkiah, Jeremiah, e…
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the gladness of Lnther at finding the Bible in the convent at Erfurth. And ought to be: 2. .A reason for special thanlifulness, 8B it generally is to e.ll who know its value as e. revelation of Divine wisdom and love, and oan appreciate its power to Influence the heart-8 and lives of men. III. Tim BIBLE BEAD. A ble…
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-were assembled as participants in this high transaction (cf. eh. xv. 13; Deut. I. 17). III. THE PRELIMINARIES, 1. The reading of the book of the cO'IJenant. The part read most likely included Exod. xxiv., the readers being, not the king himself (.Adam Clarke), but others, presumably Shaphan, Hilkiah, Jeremiah, etc…
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Josiah's own restorRtions, orpoBSi.bly having probably better, litere.lly, to the children of never been yet replaced from the date of the people, i.e. "to the people" (Lev. ii[. 110me earlier remo,•al of nn iniquitous cha- 3-16). re.cter and on the part of an iniquitous Ver. 13.-Roaated. (For the emphntio king-. Sc…
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in our history or its parnllol to acoretlit place in tbA compilatirm of tho Chronicles. tho talo of Nocho, or to discredit the heart Itis indeed possible that they might purport, nnd motive of Josiah-nothing ezcept what from the pen of the writer of Chronicles, Hilence and the result aecm to eay. One that in point of f…
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reflecting blame upon him, but 11.leo 11.re of the most touching, tender, 11.nd eympat.lictio character. The probability seems to be that, after the earnest, religious work of Josiah to the dat,e of the PR.Ssover, special and solemn celebration (in "tho eighteenth yeor of his reign," and twenty-seventh of his life),…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vera. 3-7.-The preferable service. There is considerable uncertainty as to the meaning of the words (ver. 3), "put the holy ark in the house," etc. (see Exposition). But whatever interpretation we give them, it is clear that Josiah intended the Levites to understand that he required them t…
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Dnt there is another 8ide to this truth. 'l'here are works which are to be preferred to others, if they can be rightly undertaken, because they are intrinsically better. Hence we urge- Il. THAT TIIERE IS WORK WHIOH Is TO DE rREFERRED WHEN THE 0HOI0E IS OFFERED trs .. _l. The spirit11al to the mechanical; e.g. leading …
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H doos not follow that old URages, though they once bad the sanction of Christian custom, Rhould be revived. Possibly they are better left alone. "The old order changeth," etc. On the other hand, the time may come for their revival, if not in tho same form, in a different one. That usage, in some form, deserves to be r…
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was a supreme and a fatal error. Be r,11.id the penalty of bis folly with his life, "His eun went down 'l'lhile it we.s yet day.' So passed, needlessly and unfortunately, one of the best and boldest spirits that occupied the throne of JudRh. Rega.rding his death 11.s that of one early removed from the scenes of eart…
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Hezokinh, a former King of Judah, celebrated a Passover in Jerusalem which was not merely a Passover of his own arran~ing, but the Passover (eh. xxx. 1, 2) preAcribed by tho Lo.w of Moses (vers. 16, 18), l'hnt this Pnssover, however, should have adhered more closely to the prescriptions of the lawgiver the.n e.ny forme…
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"ccording to the Word of the Lord by the h11nd of Moses (ver. 6). 8. Concerning tho people. These, i.e. such of them as were poor, or had come from a distance without hn,ing brought the necessary sacrificial animals, were furnished with lambs, kids, e.nd bullocks, or. small cattle a~d oxen (vers. 7-9), without which…
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Mediterre.ne11n 11nd 11nother in the Reel Sea. In his service Phamician sailors were the first to circumn11vige.te Afric11 (Herod., iv. 44). 3. For what reasoo it was profer,terl. 'l'o oppose Necho, whc> we.son his we.y through Palestine towards Carchemish on the Euphrates, to fight against the King of Assyria. Whether…
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IT. JosIAH's FATAL WOUND. (Ver. 23.) 1. The ineffectool disguise. Like Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead (eh. xvi ii. 29), Josie.h resorted to e. custome.ry but foolish e.nd, In this ce.se useless a~tifice. Josiah should he.ve -ventured upon no ce.mpe.ign which deme.nded such an expeihent. Had Josie.h been sure of the Divine e.…
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ohaptor in his commentary, are not un• word "God," but possibly meant to taunt worthy of note. Ho so.ye, "As the kingdom the "Jehovah'' of the Jew. of Judah o.fter Josinh's deo.th advanced Ver. 5.-Here we note the age of ,Jehoio- with swift steps to its destruction by the klm os greater than that of Jehoahaz, and in t…
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pe.mllel in its vers. 10-16. Zedekie.h hia Nebuohadnezz1n's first tn.king of Jeruso.lom, brother; ,:.e. not ndopting the very generic B.o. 606-5. Although this de.te docs not uSRge or 1he terms of relationship, so com- tally exn.ctly with the n.o. 538 of Cyrus's con- mon in Old Testament le.ngue.ge, his unele. quest…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-23.-The final indictment, sentence, and execution of it. It is in vers. 11- 21 of this chapter that we are given to read the final summary of, first, the folly and sin of Judah, her king, princes, and people; and second, the just displeasure and necessary punishment of Jehovah after an unparalleled…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-10.-.Three melancholy spectacles. As we read these verses we feel that we are drawing very near the end of the kingdom of Judah; there is an air of melan- choly pervading this last ch11pter of the Hebrew chronicles. There are three things which it is sad to see. I. A NATION SIN…
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oYerthrow. It is most wise on the part of all of 118 to have in reserve a spiritual force that will sustain us if we "suffer the lose of all things" human and temporal. III. A YOUNG MAN OP.OOSING THE EVIL PATH, Of Jehoahaz, as well as of Jehoiakim and of Jehoiachin (see 2 Kings xxiii. 32, 37; xxiv. 9), it is recorded …
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many kinds of" stooping," some of which are to be commiserated, one of which is to be honoured and even envied and emulated. There is the stooping which is- I. A MISFORTUNE. That of bodily deformity; such as was suffered by the poor womnn of whom we read that "she had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bo…
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rare affection and clovotion, to which Solomon brou.ght all his wisdom and for which ho obtained the most o.clvanced culture of his time, brought to desolation by the ruth- less hnnd of the heathen I '£bat glorious, that sacred, that beloved building, meeting- place of Goel and m1m, where the people of God realized the…
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"We suffer bec,mse we sinned against the Lord." This is the explanation of the trihulnt.ion and distre~s, of the darkness and the death, of the human world. II. A~ A PURGATION. God meant thal Babylonian captivity to boa fiery trial whioh should burn up the large measure of" wood, hay, and stubble" in the character o…
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(2 Kings ix. 3). He may hnve been preferred to his brother Eliakim on account or his ferocious cl:nmctor nnd supposed warlike qualitios (Keil), or because Eliakim wa~ at tho timo beyond their roach, having prc,bably taken part in the battle of Megi,ldu ond been mrn:l.e o prisoner (Rawlinson). II. DEPOSED BY THE Krn…
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·orn~I hnve been born in his father's fourteenth year. (2) As to means, by the help of Necho II., who deposed his usurping brother (ver. 3), partly perhaps because he was a usurper, but partly also, it may be assumed, because the people had elected that brother without havin~ first obtained Necho's consent, (3) As t…
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Jehoiakim's third year (Dan. i. 1), the year before Nebuchadnezzar defeated Necho at Carohemish (Jer. xxv. 1; xlvi. 2), i.e. B.O. 606. The probability is that either before or immediately after defeating Necho, he proceeded to Jerusalem and reC:,ived the sub- mission of Jehoiakim, who had up till that time been Necho's…
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fortunes repelled him. Jehova.h's withering ecorn of Coniah as "a despised and broken rot," "a vessel wherein is no pleasure" (Jer. x.xii. 28; cf. xlviii. 38), significantly intima.tee the est.eem in which he was held by him who tries the hearts and reins a.like of kings a.nd common men; while the relentless doom pr…
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the object of MaUsnise or hie princes in selecting this BI! the designation of Judah's 13.S"G king, it is hardly possible not to be struck with its singular propriety. To a people who were frequently instructed by "signs" it wa.s e. double symbol-first by way of contrast of the utter corruption of the nation, both prin…
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w.ndry, young and old, lad and maiden, not even sparing such 68 had taken refuge in the temple (ver. 17). 'l'he ml\88acre was wholesale, truculent, and pitiless, eclipsed in horror only by that which took place when Jerusalem was captured by Titus (Josephus, 'Wars,' vi. 9. 4). 2. Ruthless sacrikge. They completely d…
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sixth year of Nubonidus King of Babylon. Next, before the ninth year of Na.bonidus, he must have acquired the sovereignty of Persia, as in that year he ea.lie himself" King of Persia," (4) In the month Nisan (March), of the ninth year of Na.bonidus, Cyrus marched his troops into Accad, or Northern Babylonia. In the ten…
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CHAPTER I; TREIIB P.&.G II !'lmHB •AGE Life e.t its Highest 38 Ea.eh Highest Need of Life offers to Onr Strength and Beauty ... 39 turn into the First Accepted and The Building of the Temple 40 Beet Rewarded Prayer of Life 7 A Bright Beginning 9 CHAPTER IV. The Ark and the Altar; Obedience The Altar, the Sea., the Li…
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CHAPTER XXII. TREMB PAO ■ 'l'l<Klfl! PAGE The B11ttle of Detl1-ahemesh: or, the A Medley of the Memoranda of Evil, doing, its Conseqnenoee, and its End ... 268 Downfall of a Boaster The Last of Amazia.h ... 810 ... 812 A Pitiahle Prinoe; or, an Unfortunat,e Child of Fortnne 264 CHAPTER XXVI. The Couneel that …
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