1 Kings 16

Wise men may guess when they see probabilities, and foretell that which depends on natural causes; the Devil can many times shrewdly interpret the predictions of the word, but a certain prescience of what is future, and merely in itself contingent, is the prerogative of God (Isa…

All the abominations of Anti-Christ came in by degrees, the four first trumpets were so many steps or degrees of the rise of Anti-Christ, and then in the fifth, he appears upon his throne with open face, as the Angel of the bottomless pit, and as an Abaddon, as a destroyer and s…

Then they swore by his name, thereby establishing him as the most present God, the searcher of hearts, and the supreme governor of all actions: Jeremiah 12:16, "They taught my people to swear by Baal," or by the name of Baal. To these things they added genuflection, or prostrati…

For by it he has redeemed us from the danger of the Devil, Death and Hell, and made us free Israelites and a peculiar people to himself and has set up a horn of salvation in the house of his servant David. A horn in scripture is taken for victory, mightiness, a rod, a kingdom, g…

1. She is beautiful as Tirzah: this was a city of the tribe of Manasseh; the word in the original comes from a root that signifies acceptable, whereby it seems that this city has been exceeding pleasant. It was the seat of one of the kings of Canaan (Joshua 12:24), and of the ki…

For whoever rationally considers the occasion and political grounds of this innovation, must needs conclude, that Jeroboam intended not to introduce a new God, (which would have made the people to fall faster from him, than tyranny and oppression did from Rehoboam) but only to s…

I have sometimes in darkness and under temptations myself, begun to think, that what has been, is the thing that is, and there is no new thing under the Sun. As it has been among the heathen of old, so it has been among us; or as it was with Israel (1 Kings 16:22), then were the…

And after that the history seems to have been further carried on by the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani: 2 Chronicles 20:34. "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of t…

Moreover, that prophecy, that Judah should have the Scepter, it was a thing could not be foreseen; Judah was not the elder brother, and it was long first before it was brought to pass: therefore Moses could not see it by any thing at the present; and besides that, he should not…

Verse 30: Hoshea smote him, and reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet]. So also (Esther 2:4), (Ecclesiastes 4:15), (2 Samuel 17:25), (Genesis 30:2), (1 Kings 16:10): Zimri reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet] (Ezekiel 16:32). Joseph heard that Archelaus did reign in the room of Herod his…

(6) Because, though the Israelites worshipped the true God, by an image (for Aaron built an altar, and made proclamation, and said, tomorrow is a feast to the Lord) yet are they accused of the sin of idolatry, and for that cause severely punished (Exodus 32:21, 27, 35). (7) Beca…

For they do not look upon the Word as their Rule, seeing (as they dream) they have a Light within them, beyond that more sure Word of Prophecy, which the Apostle Peter prefers to a voice from Heaven. Indeed, they have so little veneration for the Scriptures, that they will not s…