2 Chronicles 14

Christ will make his enemies his footstool (Psalm 110:1). He can destroy them with ease (2 Chronicles 14:11): it is nothing for you, Lord, to help. He can do it with weak means, without means.

1. If God brings his people out of bondage, then let none despond in trouble; say not, I shall sink under this burden; as David, I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul. God can make this text good, personally and nationally, to bring his people out of the house of bondage: w…

The only difference is, that on the former occasion Christ satisfied five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes, while, on the present occasion, four thousand men are fed with seven loaves and a few small fishes; and that twelve baskets were then filled with fragments, wh…

Then God wrought deliverance to Judah, out of regard to the covenant of grace established with David, as is evident by verses 4 and 5; and the victory they obtained was because the Lord was on their side, as you may see, verse 12. So it was again in Asa's time, when Zerah the Et…

3. We must be quiet as the land is quiet from war. It was the observable felicity of Asa's reign, that in his days the land was quiet (2 Chronicles 14:1, 5). In the preceding reigns there was no peace to him that went out, or to him that came in, whether outward-bound or homewar…

In your lowest estate he is able to raise you up (Romans 11:23). And they also if they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again: whatever difficulties oppose themselves against the thing promised, he can remove them, for nothing is…

The places in which it is used are all noted in the margin, that the reader may examine them for his own satisfaction. In the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] occurs but three times: (2 Chronicles 14:15), where it is translated cattle; (Ezra 8…