2 Chronicles 24

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…

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…