2 Chronicles 13

By prayer we draw near to God, by faith we take hold of him. 2 Chronicles 13:14: The children of Judah cried to the Lord; and this was the crying of faith; verse 18. They prevailed because they relied on the Lord God of their fathers: Making supplication to God, and staying the…

This proceeds not from the lack of a holy bent and aim, but from the weakness and imperfection of grace. And in this case the soul may make the like complaint against its own corruptions that Abijah made against Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:6-7). Grace has a dominion, but lusts are…

Again, there is a covenant of marriage between God and his people (Jeremiah 3:14), so as the wife promises to be to her husband alone (Hosea 3:3-4), so the Church of God promises, that she will be for God alone, and God will be for us alone; and we embrace the seed of his word a…

So it was again in Abijah's time, when Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men; a mighty army indeed. We read of it, 2 Chronicles 13:3. Then God wrought deliverance to Judah, out of regard to the covenant of grace established with Davi…

Meekness is easiness of spirit; not a sinful easiness to be debauched, as Ephraim's that willingly walked after the commandment of the idolatrous princes (Hosea 5:11). Nor a simple easiness to be imposed upon and deceived, as Rehoboam's, who when he was forty years old is said t…

Psalm 146:4 — all their thoughts perish. Lastly, they are vain, that is, indeed, wicked and sinful; vanity in the text here, is yoked with wickedness: and vain men, and sons of Belial are all one (2 Chronicles 13:17). And such are our thoughts by nature.