2 Chronicles 19

I have written to you not to keep company. Do not incorporate into the society of the wicked, or be too much familiar with them: the wicked are [illegible], God-haters; and (2 Chronicles 19:2) should you join with those who hate the Lord? A Christian is bound by virtue of his oa…

14. If we would not be overcome of Satan, let us put on Christian fortitude. An enemy we must expect, who is either shooting of darts, or laying of snares, therefore let us be armed with courage (2 Chronicles 19:11). Deal courageously, and the Lord shall be with the good.

The second is the league of amity, which is when men, people, or countries bind themselves to defend each other in all causes and to make the wars of the one the wars of the other — and this league may not be made with those that be enemies of God. Jehoshaphat, otherwise a good…

Also (says Nehemiah) they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. But you have also the error of a godly man set before you as a rock to be avoided (2 Chronicles 19:2). Should you help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?

Asa was a reforming King, but there is one black mark upon him, for he persecuted the Prophet Hanani, for reproving him; and he oppressed some of the people at the same time, whereby his sun did set under such a cloud that some have questioned whether he was a godly man (2 Chron…

Jehoshaphat had made a league with Ahab (2 Chronicles 18:1-3), and God had ordered Micaiah to acquaint him with the ill success of the affair they went about, verses 16-19, which Jehoshaphat found true, for his own life was in danger, he was hardly beset by the enemy upon a mist…

We grant with Beza that sometimes civil causes were debated and determined in the Ecclesiastical Sanhedrin, but this was done [in non-Latin alphabet], non [in non-Latin alphabet], as he says, the fact which was merely civil was judged in the civil Sanhedrin, but when the civil j…

But as it was a Church, and not as Jewish, it had foure sorts of ordinary office-bearers, Priests, Levites, Doctors, and Elders, and we conformablie have Pastors, Deacons, Doctors, and Elders. To their Priests and Levits, Cyprian does rightly liken our Pastors and Deacons, for h…

They had besides, a supreme ecclesiastical court, whereunto the whole nation, and all the synagogical consistories were subject. This court having decayed, was restored by Ichoshaphat (2 Chronicles 19:8), and it had the name of Sanedrim, common to it with the supreme civil court…

How ordinary is it upon this ground for those that have profest themselves to be godly rather to withdraw themselves from the afflicted Saints, and seek correspondence with wicked men that prosper. God would have his people see an all sufficiency in himself in their sadest condi…

Secondly, in this commandment other sorts of particulars are forbidden, as all means, occasions, or appurtenances of idolatry, whereby some show, or remembrance or reverence is kept (Psalm 16:4). As all marriages, conjunctions or near familiarity with idolaters (2 Corinthians 6:…

God's teaching is by effectual impression or inclining the heart. It is a sharp question that of the prophet (2 Chronicles 19:2). Should you hate the godly, and love those that hate the Lord?

This made David so well to rule the people of God (2 Samuel 23:3): and Joseph to deal so well with his brethren (Genesis 42:18): indeed, this is noted to be the cause of the righteous rule of Christ himself (Isaiah 11:2-3). Well did that good King Jehoshaphat know this, and ther…

3. That proceeding according to this rule, their declarations in court were the judgments of God's mouth. (2 Chronicles 19:6) He said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. If this sense did prevail, we…

3. Our love to God should put us upon loving his people, and making them our intimates; for religion influences all things, our relations, common employments, friendships and converses. It is a smart question that of the Prophet, (2 Chronicles 19:2) Should you help the ungodly,…

(And if they miss the end of the law at which it aims, and to which it tends, they must needs fall short of the wisdom and counsel, and spiritual efficacy of the law, which should direct them.) So in (2 Chronicles 19:3). Now for a long time, Israel had been without the true God;…

Ephesians 5:11: Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Jehoshaphat, though a good man, was blamed for this (2 Chronicles 19:2): Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate the Lord? The fault was not that he maintained civil peace with Ahab, but that h…

Secondly, the sense and meaning of this place from verse 3 to the 13 is that inferior Courts and Assemblies in cases too hard and difficult for them, are commanded to go higher to some superior Court and Assembly, as those words clearly show, you shall arise, and get you up into…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…

(Deuteronomy 1:20) The Lord was very angry with Aaron. (2 Chronicles 19:2) The prophet Jehu said to Jehoshaphat that good king, There is wrath upon you from the Lord. (Isaiah 60:10) For in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor, I have had mercy on you.

Such is the judgment of the Magistrate, when he acquits or condemns men, as their deserts are, to temporal punishment. Of which we may read (2 Chronicles 19:6; Psalm 58:1). Such also is the judgment of the Prophet, or Minister, whereby he does openly pronounce to men, that belie…

Called a Synod, and stigmatized Heretics (Acts 15). (5) Because, God has put a difference, between the Church Government and the Civil, and has appointed distinct Governors to them (2 Chronicles 19:8-11). (6) Because, God did severely punish Saul, and Uzziah for presuming to off…

(4) Because, there is a particular example of a Synod, which had the power of Jurisdiction, and which consisted, and was made up of members, out of diverse Classical Conventions: For when the question about circumcision, and the keeping of Moses' Law, which troubled the churches…

1. If it were not so, then it is free and arbitrary to the magistrate to appoint what punishments himself pleases. But this is not arbitrary to him, for he is the minister of God (Romans 13:4), and the judgement is the Lord's (Deuteronomy 1:7; 2 Chronicles 19:6). And if the magi…