2 Chronicles 24

His titles according to the double use of them, simply, or in an oath, has double caution set down in the word. In the simple use, we must be prepared either by premeditation, or else by some occasion going before, which does stir up the several affections of the heart in the us…

For though the title of the book informs us that he was the son of Barachiah, (Zechariah 1:1,) yet we nowhere read that he was slain; and it is a forced exposition to say, that he was slain during the period that intervened between the building of the altar and of the temple. Bu…

Does the Lord cast influences upon sleeping men's bosoms? So are we to act as our acting way be fathered on the spirit; as the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, upon Sampson, and they fight, and the Spirit of the Lord upon Zechariah the son of Jehojadah, and he prophesied (2…

And this was Saul's folly, who against God's express prohibition suffered his people to take some of the spoil of the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:21). The like may be said of Joash, who listened to his Princes to set up idols (2 Chronicles 24:7): and of Pilate, who to please the peo…

It brings an incapability in regard of myself to receive good, and an impossibility in regard of God himself to work my spiritual good, while my sin continues, and I continue impenitent in it. An incapability of a spiritual blessing: why transgress you the commandment of the Lor…

When a Christian shall be very instrumental for the good of others, he is abundantly fruitful. It was said of Jehoiada, that he had done good in Israel both towards God, and towards his house (2 Chronicles 24:16). So they that have done much good in their generation, have brough…