2 Chronicles 20

He can do it with weak means, without means. He can make the enemies destroy themselves; he set the Persians against the Greeks; and (2 Chronicles 20:23) the children of Ammon helped to destroy one another. Thus Christ is King in vanquishing the enemies of his church.

By contrary means, He made the Sea a wall to Israel, and the waters were a means to keep them from drowning: The fish's belly was a ship in which Jonah sailed safe to shore. God will never want ways of saving his people: Rather than fail the very enemies shall do his work (2 Chr…

The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied: The Church is like that plant Gregory Nazianzen speaks of, [illegible], it lives by dying, and grows by cutting. 3. Strangely in that he makes the enemy do his work: When the people of Amon, and Moab, and Mount Seir came ag…

2. In their own consciences. The truth of the first is manifest, in that not only in this chapter, but often also in the Old Testament, God has made such honorable mention, and given such honorable titles unto many of these Elders: calling Abraham the friend of God, 2 Chronicles…

This, Paul confesses of himself and others: We (says he) received the sentence of death in ourselves, because we should not trust in ourselves, but in God: 2 Corinthians 1:9. So good King Jehoshaphat, when he was compassed of his enemies, He cried to the Lord, and said; Lord we…

Let us therefore in such cases, learn to practice our faith; and then especially to cast ourselves upon GOD. This, Jehoshaphat did most notably: for, being assaulted with the huge armies of the Moabites, Ammonites, etc. he prayed unto the Lord most fervently, saying; 2 Chronicle…

(1 Samuel 27:12) And Achish believed in David. (2 Chronicles 20:20) Believe in the prophets and prosper. Answer. The Hebrew phrase in which the servile letter Beth is used, must not be translated with a preposition that rules an accusative or ablative case, but with a dative cas…

And Ecclesiastes 8:12: 'Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged, yet it shall be well with those that fear the Lord.' Could you but believe the promises, your hearts should be established (2 Chronicles 20:29). Could you but plead them with God, as Ja…

And so the proof of this fourth particular, will add further strength and confirmation to that we presented in the former. Now that his being our God (which is the substance of the Covenant of Grace) does engage him to provide glory for separate souls, that one instance of Abrah…

Ezra bases his prayer on this (Ezra 9:6): O my God, I am ashamed and blush. And Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 20:12): O our God, will you not judge them? In prayer consider what claim and interest you have to God, if you be a son, and he a Father: Bastards cannot pray; strangers wit…

A covenant of salt is to be fed with the same salt, as it were, to eat many a bushel of salt together — that is a covenant of friendship. "Did you not give the land to the seed of Abraham your friend for ever?" (2 Chronicles 20:7). There he fittingly expresses the nature of a co…

But when the creature, being conscious of his own insufficiency to help itself by any means it itself can use, has respect to the holy God that makes Israel holy, and is acknowledged of Israel to be holy — this is indeed to have God for our Savior, and so he is to all such as ar…

The eighth, and last point is, the practice of them that are justified, and that is to believe, or put their trust in Christ. Trust in the Lord (says the Prophet) and you shall be assured (2 Chronicles 20:20). And Solomon says, Roll your care on the Lord (Proverbs 16:3).

And thus in desperate cases, we must use the best means and leave the success to God. Thus the Israelites when there was no other help, went into the sea, as into their deathbed, or grave, by faith staying themselves on the promise of God (Hebrews 11:29) (2 Chronicles 20:12). Th…

According to his direction, they only stood still, and sang praises to God, and God made their enemies do the work themselves, and set them to killing one another; and the children of Judah had nothing to do, but to gather the spoil, which was more than they could carry away. We…

(1.) We ought to come to him as renouncing our strength, and waiting for his grace as able to help us. That address Jehoshaphat made in a temporal case, is good also in a spiritual one (2 Chronicles 20:12): Lord, we have no might, our eyes are to you. There is a renouncing of th…

(Psalm 115:3) Our God is in the heavens, and does whatever he pleases. So, (2 Chronicles 20:6) Are you not God in Heaven? And do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the heathen?

Proverbs 16:3: Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts shall be established. 2 Chronicles 20:20: Believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established. 5. It keeps us from warping and turning aside to crooked paths: as long as we are persuaded that God will maintain…

We understand it usually of preparing the heart for prayer; to ask the mercy, but it is also meant of preparing the heart to receive the mercy. 2 Chronicles 20:35: The high places were not taken away, because the people had not yet prepared their heart to the God of their father…

Here's a blind mind, and a dead [reconstructed: heart], a lame heart; Lord work upon it, and draw [reconstructed: me] to yourself and that effectually. It was [reconstructed: a notable] speech (2 Chronicles 20:12), when [reconstructed: Jehoshaphat] had mustered up all the forces…

And these things the Scripture pleads and argues, when Faith is required of us in the way of Obedience. Thus says the Lord, is that which is proposed to us as the Reason why we should believe what is spoken, to which often times other divine Names and Titles are added, signifyin…

4. Has not God often come in with assisting grace? When he has bid you mortify such a lust, and you have said as Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20.12. I have no might against this great army. Then God has come in with auxiliary forces, his grace has been sufficient.

The life a godly man lives in his prosperity, is a life of faith. For so the apostle says, and he speaks it universally, he speaks of all the life he lives, it is all a life of faith in this world; Since therefore a great part of a man's life is taken up with prosperous successe…

God is pleased sometimes in dealing forth spiritual blessings to his people, in some respect to exceed the capacity of the vessel, in its present scantiness, so that he doesn't only fill it full, but he makes their cup to run over; agreeable to (Psalm 23:5). And pours out a bles…

And the prophet makes this an argument of God's great power above all other gods, that he subdues iniquities, and blots out transgressions (Micah 7:18-19; Isaiah 43:25). Though we know not how this can be done, that such dead bones, souls that are even rotten in their sins, shou…