2 Chronicles 21

The worst civil wars are between a man and his conscience. 2. God will set the diseases of men's bodies against them (2 Chronicles 21:18). The Lord struck Jehoram in his bowels with an incurable disease.

Again, the name (Jew) opposed to Gentiles, signifies not only men of the tribe of Judah, but all circumcised persons of all tribes (Romans 2:28), and thus it is all one with an Israelite. And thus we see how to expound the place of Scripture (2 Chronicles 21:2), where Jehoshapha…

God's remembering his covenant that he had established with David, is given as the reason why God did thus, notwithstanding their wicked lives; as 1 Kings 15:4 speaking there of Abijam's wickedness, it is said, "Nevertheless, for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp…

It is the character of a natural man to be unmerciful (Romans 1:31). A wicked man, like Jehoram, has his compassion fallen out (2 Chronicles 21:19). Therefore he is compared to an adamant (Zechariah 7:11), because his heart melts not in mercy.

Secondly, a man is said to live to himself, that lives according to his own will, and principles, and for his own ends, as in usual phrase of speech we say, such a man lives to himself, as regards no man's profit, or pleasure, or credit, but his own, he cares for no body, furthe…