2 Kings 16

But thus to introduce another book, besides the Book of God, into his Church, is a dishonor, and an affront to the Scripture. If it be a sin for men to set their posts by his posts, their thresholds by his thresholds, as (Ezekiel 43:8) and their altars by his altars (2 Kings 16:…

Jeroboam made Priests of his own, after the manner of the Nations of other Lands, but therefore he casts out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron, and the Levites, to make way for his own (2 Chronicles 13:9). Ahaz gives order that the Priests should offer their Sacrifices u…

Two things are chiefly celebrated concerning it: the worship, and the place appointed for it. The worship was "the passing of offspring through fire" (Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3, 21:10). There were two kinds of it — burning alive, and purifications by fire.

It is also credible, that this sign or witness of the prophecy was known among the people, for he should not have been joined in commission with his father, unless he had sustained some authority in his person. The place is specified for certainty of the history: and it may well…

He calls them faithful; that is to say, true and fitting: and yet notwithstanding one of them was a cursed and wicked apostate, who to flatter the King, built an altar like to that at Damascus; and openly consented to a horrible impiety and abomination. I know there are others w…

Verse 12. Aram before, and the Philistines behind, and they shall devour Israel with open mouth: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. The Prophet shows what this change shall be, and what shall come to pass after the death of Rezin,…