2 Kings 15

Asa commanded Judah to worship God, and the thing was right in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 14:23, 24). So see 2 Kings 15:23, and Ezra 10:8; so 2 Kings 34:32, 33; and that promise, Isaiah 43:23. I know I touch the sore of this age, and that this is a truth much prejudiced, ther…

But thirdly, When was this fulfilled? If we would know the meaning of the Prophet we must refer to the history of the kings, and in (2 Kings 15:19) there you may find when this prophecy was fulfilled. Phul the King of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Phul a thousa…

And indeed such are our Wars and Victories at this day, we must not rejoice in our Conquests as other people, not so rejoice as if French or Spaniards came among us, or as if we were in a foreign Nation, for our Conquests weakens our own Nation, it is the destruction of our Bret…

We shall easily discern hereafter by the context how proper and natural this exposition is. (2 Kings 15:29; 17:6) But why does the Prophet say that this destruction which will lay all things waste shall yet notwithstanding be more gentle and supportable?

The people that walked in darkness shall see a great light” (Isaiah 9:1, 2) The Israelites had been twice visited by a heavy calamity: first, when four tribes, or thereby, were carried away into banishment, by Tiglath-Pileser, (2 Kings 15:29;) and, secondly, when Shalmaneser com…

After this God began to cut Israel short, by finally destroying and sending into captivity that part of the land that was beyond Jordan, as you may see in 2 Kings 10:32 et cetera. And then after this Tiglath-Pileser subdued and captivated all the northern parts of the land; 2 Ki…

A person may have bodily diseases yet God may love him. Asa was diseased in his feet and had the gout, yet was a favorite with God (2 Kings 15:23). God's hand may go out against a person, yet his heart may be toward him.

(2 Kings 8:15): He slew him, and Hazael reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet]. (2 Kings 15:10): Shallum slew him, and reigned in his stead, [in non-Latin alphabet]. Verse 14: Menahem slew him, and reigned, [in non-Latin alphabet].

We have (2) the examples of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4), of Josiah (2 Kings 23), of Asa, who decreed that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel (according to the law of God; Deuteronomy 13:9) should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man, or woman (2 Chronicles…