1 Kings 16

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…

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…

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…