Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 15:1 — Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. Reigned Abijam. — Called also Abijah. 2 Chronicles 12:16 Abijah signifieth, The Lord is my father: so his father called him, likely, with respect to that promise made to David; 2 Samuel 7:14 but because he walked not in the ways of David, therefore is Abijah called Abijam, which signifieth, My father

1 Kings 22:15 — So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king. Go, and prosper. — Ironice pseudo prophetas fingit. And Ahab perceived that he spake it scoffingly, and in a tone of derision. See the like, Genesis 3:22 2 Chronicles 25:8 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Lamentations 4:21 Amos 4:4-5 1 Kings 18:27 .

1 Kings 22:2 — And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. Jehoshaphat came down to the king of Israel. — With whom he warred at first with good success: 2 Chronicles 17:1-3 but afterwards, for some politic respect, as haply to withstand the growing greatness of the Syrian, an ill neighbour to them both, he contracted with Ahab affinity and amity, and here cometh down to give him a courtly visit, which had like to have cost him his life.

2 Kings 19:22 — exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel. Against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? — God is "jealous for Jerusalem with a great jealousy." Zechariah 1:14 He soon took notice of Cain’s frowns; Genesis 4:6 Laban’s lowerings; Genesis 31:2 Rabshakeh’s outcries here; those miscreants lolling out the tongue; Isaiah 57:3-4 their wagging the head at Christ on the cross. Matthew 27:39

2 Kings 23:21 — And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant. Keep the passover. — 2 Chronicles 35:1 . If the passover had been neglected, the law, the sacrifices had been in vain. No true Israelite might want whether this monument of their deliverance past, or this type of the Messiah to come. Rather than fail, Josiah’s bounty shall supply to

2 Kings 24:8 — mother’s name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. Jehoiakin was eighteen years old, — sc., When he began to reign alone. See 2 Chronicles 36:9 . Mutavit Iudaea dominos, non miserias. This king is also called Jechonias, Matthew 1:11 and Coniah - that is, prepared, sc., for destruction; Jeremiah 22:24 the name of God - whom he had forsaken - being defalked. [Withdrawn; i.e., Je (Jehovah) left out of his name Jeconiah.]

2 Kings 3:7 — And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses. And he said, I will go up. — See on 2 Kings 3:2 . The Moabites had lately, with other nations, invaded Judah, 2 Chronicles 20:1 and therefore it may be Jehoshaphat hearkened the rather to Jehoram’s motion.

2 Kings 8:22 — Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. Then Libna revolted at the same time. — So that Joram taken off thereby, could not prosecute his victory over the Edmonites. Libna was a city of Judah, and given to the priests. Joshua 21:13 1 Chronicles 6:57 These not enduring the late innovations in religion, and other abominations committed by Joram, cast off their obedience, "because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers." 2 Chronicles 21:10

1 Chronicles 10:14 — And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. And inquired not of the Lord. — He did, and yet he did not. See Trapp on " 1 Samuel 28:6 " Therefore he slew him. — He killed him with death, as Revelation 2:23 . And turned the kingdom unto David. — Though it were long first, and after many trials and tribulations. Sic petitur caelum; heaven is not to be had,

1 Chronicles 28:11 — the place of the mercy seat, Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern. — The platform of the temple, with the parts and partitions, the vessels, vestments, …, all which he had foreframed in his mind, by the help of the Holy Spirit, 1 Chronicles 28:12 and set it down in a model, for Solomon’s use.

1 Chronicles 4:24 — The sons of Simeon [were], Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, [and] Shaul: And the sons of Simeon. — His genealogy is set down next to that of Judah, because his lot fell out to be in the tribe of Judah, for most part, Joshua 19:1 though his posterity took part with the other nine tribes in the revolt from Judah and Benjamin, who clave still to the house of David. Of this tribe was that shameless fornicator, Zimri, Numbers 25:14 as also Judas Iscariot, as Jerome affirmeth.

2 Chronicles 1:14 — Jerusalem. And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. — This is here added to show how God made good to Solomon that other part of his promise also concerning riches and honours. And here the lawgiver might dispense with that law of his, Deuteronomy 17:16 by a singular privilege to this king of Israel. See on 1 Kings 4:26 .

2 Chronicles 13:8 — And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. To withstand the kingdom of the Lord. — And so, giant-like, to fight against God. Is that ever like to do well? "Do ye provoke the Lord to anger? are ye stronger than he?" And there are with you golden calves. — In the camp perhaps, as 1 Chronicles 14:12 .

2 Chronicles 3:11 — And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 2 Chronicles 3:12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub. Ver. 11, 12. See on 1 Kings 6:24 , …

2 Chronicles 30:15 — and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. Then they killed the passover. — So must we first cast the baggage into the brook, and then come to the Lord’s supper. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 And the priests and Levites were ashamed. — As well they might, that they had been so slack and backward to so good a business, so generally and zealously set upon.

2 Chronicles 9:29 — acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? Now the rest, … — And worst. See 1 Kings 11:41 . First and last. — His first were best: of his last this historian saith nothing, but layeth his finger on the scar. In the book of Nathan. — In part of the First Book of Kings, written by these three prophets.

Nehemiah 3:7 — his throne, or tribunal. But to what a height of pride were the bishops grown, that sat in thrones, and from on high despised their fellow servants! this was their ruin, God putts down the mighty from their throne, and exalts them of low degree, Luke 1:52 .

Nehemiah 7:6 — that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city; These are the children, … — See Ezra 2:1-3 , …, with the notes. Some small differences there are in names and numbers between this catalogue and that; not by the negligence of the scribes who wrote out this register, as Pellican would have it, but by other means, as is above noted.

Esther 4:10 — Mordecai; Again Esther spake unto Hatack — Having before found him a fit and faithful messenger, she further employeth him; so those that minister well do purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 3:13 , when others shall be laid by as broken vessels, whereof there is not left a sheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water with it from the pit, as the prophet hath it, Isaiah 30:14 .

Psalms 10:11 — He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it]. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten — That is, he knoweth it not, regardeth it not. To learn is nothing else but to remember, said Socrates; and what a man hath utterly forgotten it is all one as if he had never known it; 2 Peter 1:9 , he "hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins," that is, he was never purged. See Psalms 10:4 .