2 Chronicles 28

There is some good in the godly, therefore the wicked afflict them; there is some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them. God's own children have their [illegible], their blemishes (2 Chronicles 28:10). Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord?

Quest. What is antecedent to, or goes before this choice? Resp. 1. Before this choosing God for our God, there must be knowledge: We must know God before we can choose him; before one choose the person he will marry, he must first have some knowledge and cognizance of the person…

When God's name which should be hallowed is profaned among a people, it is just with God to write that dismal epitaph upon a nation's tomb, The glory is departed. And that I may speak to the consciences of all, and deal impartially, it were well if only the profane party were gu…

This is to sin against conviction. 2 Chronicles 28:22: In his distress did he trespass yet more: this is that King Ahaz. This does enhance and make the sin greater than other sins: for sinning against an enlightened conscience,

And upon the like account Ahaz made sundry changes to the prejudice of God's worship, because of the king of Assyria, that is for fear of him, and that he might please him. And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which smote him, saying in his foolish, carnal wisdom, because…

That is, Judah shall take pains and go through many difficulties in the ways of my worship, and shall suffer much while Ephraim lives delicately for a long time, yet Judah suffered more difficulty, Judah suffered much more difficulty and hardship than the ten tribes did. And I t…

Or that time in 1 Kings 14:13: And Jehoash King of Israel, took Amaziah King of Judah, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem; and took all the Gold and Silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the Kings h…

The place appointed for the worship of Molech, as we are about to say, was "the valley of the son of Hinnom." In that valley king Ahaz "burned his sons with fire" (2 Chronicles 28:3). That others did the same is attested by Jeremiah, ch. 7:31, 32, who accordingly calls that vall…

They held fast deceit, though they were afflicted, that aggravated their sinfulness. Now (I say) as it makes sin out of measure sinful, to hold it fast when God afflicts; so it makes grace out of measure gracious, puts a wonderful splendor and glory upon it, if we hold fast our…

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord shall give to me, he saw it before him, and was able to tell others of it. So David (2 Chronicles 28:9). And you Solomon my so…

As appears by that wicked king Jehoram (2 Kings 6:33): 'This evil is of the Lord — and what should I wait on the Lord any longer?' And by that of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:22, etc.): 'Then in time of distress, Ahaz yet trespassed more against the Lord' — this was King Ahaz, this was…

He purchased a Halter. What got King Ahaz by worshipping the Gods of Damascus? they were the Ruin of him and of all Israel, 2 Chronicles 28:23. Sin is first Comical, and then Tragical.

3. Sin brings a man low in affliction; that is the meaning of the Text, They were brought low for their iniquity. Adam's sin brought him low; it banished him out of Paradise, 2 Chronicles 28:18. In those days, God cut Israel short.

No, their eyes were upon Egypt for succor, not upon heaven: 'Well, Pharaoh and his aids are left still, all hope is not gone' (Jeremiah 37:9). See the like in Ahaz in a sore plunge and distress; he courts the king of Assyria for help (2 Chronicles 28:29); that project failing, w…

There (says he) Iehosaphat is called king of Israel, when as indeede he was king of Iudah, and so is he called in the former booke of Chronicles. In like manner Ahaz is tearmed king of Israel (2 Chronicles 28:19), whereas the truth is, he was king of Iudah. Answ. After the death…

[Righteousness] The word signifies truth and equity: it is oftentimes in Scripture restrained to second table duties, and then it is distinguished from holiness, which refers to first table duties, but here, as in many other places, it is used more largely, to signify a reformat…