2 Chronicles 26

Not our obedience, but Christ's merits, procure acceptance; we must in every part of worship tender up Christ to God in the arms of our faith. Unless we serve God thus, in hope and confidence of Christ's merits, we do rather provoke God than please him: as when King Uzziah would…

We must carry the lamb Christ in the arms of our faith, and so we prevail in prayer. When Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry and struck him with leprosy (2 Chronicles 26:16). When we do not pray in Christ's name, in the hope of his mediation, we offer up…

(5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16. (6) Leviticus 10:1, 2; Numbers 16:3, 8, 9, 32, 35; 1 Samuel 2:28, 29; 2 Samuel 6:6, 7; 2 Chronicles 26:16, 19; 1 Corinthians 11:30. Explication.

And that which is recorded of him on other accounts, is so far from having respect to his right to the priesthood of the Law, that it directly proves and demonstrates that he had none. For his genealogy is evidently of the Tribe of Judah, which was excluded legally from that off…

And some offerings, as those at the Feast of Expiation, were appropriated to the High Priests only. So is the case stated by Azariah the High Priest (2 Chronicles 26:18), Not to you Uzziah to burn incense to the Lord, but to the Priests the Sons of Aaron who are consecrated, fro…

For comparison is made with the sacrifices of the Law. But the offering of these sacrifices was expressly forbidden to the kings; as is manifest in the instance of King Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:18–20). Besides, there is in that place of Deuteronomy, no more respect had to David t…

(Genesis 22:14) In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. From this word had the Prophets the name of Seers (1 Samuel 9:9), and from the same word came the name of visions (2 Chronicles 26:5), Zechariah who had understanding in the visions of God. Now but what of all this, migh…

Jehosaphat did reform religion, but he entered into a sinful league with that great idolater Ahab, and though the Prophet Jehu reproved him for it (2 Chronicles 19:2), and though we do not find that he was so exceeding vile as to persecute the Prophet for it, yet he fell into th…

So, that which we think little in God's worship is a great matter. So Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26, no question he thought it no great matter to go into the temple and offer sacrifice, Is it not as good that a king offer it as a priest? It was in the temple, and the true worship, a…

The apprehension of God's hand smiting is that which should humble the hearts of sinners very much. It's a notable scripture which you have in (2 Chronicles 26:20) of Uzziah, that when he saw that he was smitten, though he were stout and proud before, yet when he was smitten he…

For He had strictly forbidden that anyone who was not of the natural seed of Aaron should ever dare to undertake that office (Numbers 16:40). Moreover, He gave authority to that law by setting forth dreadful examples against those who had dared to intrude upon the priestly admin…

Albeit the case may so fall out, that those of another Church, professing the same religion with us, may be reproved, and censured: indeed one Church may admonish another; for they being members one of another, are to procure the good one of another, as Paul teaches by the simil…

If you love your lives, if you love your souls, be tender in this point. Here if you meddle with that which belong not to you, were you Kings, all your glory would be laid in the dust (2 Chronicles 26:18). Woe to them who cut short the saints of God in the least jot, of what he…

It appears from the Dialogue of Justin Martyr with Trypho, that some of them of old applied this Psalm to Hezekiah. But not one word in it can rationally be conceived to respect him, especially that which is spoken about the Priesthood utterly excludes him; seeing his great Gran…

Was not this to usurp upon the priests' office? Was it not this for which King Uzziah was reprehended and told by the priests, "It does not belong to you, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron;" and was he not smitten with leprosy for doing of it (2…

God has appointed a sovereign prince to be Custos utriusque Tabulae, a guardian of both tables of his law; and has put the sword into his hands, not only to be an avenger in cases of injury done by man to man, but to be an avenger in case of the violation of those laws which imm…

In this state of things, God takes notice of the joy, and triumphing of the whole land of Palestina, that is, the country of the Philistines. In that the rod of him that smote them was broken: that is the power of the Kings and kingdom of Judah, which for many generations had pr…

"Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel," as we find him to be 1 Kings 16:1, 7. And then it was further continued by the prophet Isaiah: 2 Chronic…

It is best with us many times when we are weakest (2 Corinthians 12:10): When I am weak, then am I strong. Worst when strongest (2 Chronicles 26:16): When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his own destruction. Lot chose Sodom, a fair and pleasant situation, but you know…

Saul had sworn that Jonathan should be put to death, and as far as appears went on resolutely to have slain him; God stirs up the spirit of the people, they oppose themselves to the wrath and fury of Saul, and Jonathan is delivered. So also (2 Chronicles 26:7, 8, 19) when King V…

This is a thing that you all know, that those prayers that are not offered up in Christ are not acceptable, because the person is not regarded. It was the sin of Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26 — he would go to the temple himself, being a king on the throne, and he would offer incense…

When you speak of two Lords, one of them is always Christ. It was a proud distemper in Uzziah, that he himself went into the Temple of the Lord, to burn incense upon the altar of incense (2 Chronicles 26:16). Why?

May the Civil Magistrate, assume to himself, the administration of the Word, and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven? No (2 Chronicles 26:18; Matthew 18:17; Matthew 16:19; 1 Corinthians 12:28-29; Romans 10:5; Hebrews 5:4). Well then, do not the Erastian…