2 Kings 18

This does not at all follow. In fact, that very brazen serpent which God himself commanded to be set up, when Israel did look upon it with too much reverence, and began to burn incense to it, Hezekiah defaced that image, and called it Nehushtan, and God commended him for doing s…

Again, the bronze serpent was a type or image of Christ crucified (John 3:14), appointed by God himself. Yet when the people burned incense to it, Hezekiah broke it in pieces and is therefore commended (2 Kings 18:4). And when the devil bade our Savior Christ but to bow down the…

We are likewise to consider in what case the state of Israel was: for the ten Tribes had been led away captive: and it seemed that the kingdom of Judah was utterly wasted, in regard the whole country was almost conquered, Jerusalem excepted, which was besieged by Rabsache. Tarta…

These things fell out then a long time after the Prophet's death: and the holy history witnesses the same: as also that the princes determined to flee when this calamity happened: but neither their flight to Jerusalem, nor their running away from it did them any good at all, bec…

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…

Who can but see the Scriptures fulfilled in, and expounded by such Providences? See Isaiah 54. 15, 16, 17. and 8. 8, 9, 10. expounded by 2 Kings 18:17 & seq. See you at any time a rub of Providence diverting the course of good men from falling into evil, or wicked men from commi…

There was no king like to Solomon, but he restrains it to this, who was beloved of his God, none to whom God did so much communicate himself as to Solomon, none like to Solomon in wisdom and knowledge, in those revelations and intimate communions that God had with him, he was as…

The several false religions of the heathen with their various superstitions and idolatries, though they gave very little opposition one to another, but agreed together well enough, yet having no foundation in truth they all withered away, and dwindled to nothing, and after the m…

This was his plea; but I suppose it was not before God as a Judge, but before God as a witness, he called God to witness that he had walked before him with a perfect heart. He was slandered by Rabshakeh: They thought when he broke down the altars of Baal, and cut down their grov…

2. That they may be carried through their cares, and fears, and snares, and may know what reward to expect from the absolute sovereign, who is the great patron of human societies. It is trust and dependence upon God that makes good magistrates (2 Kings 18:5): He trusted in the L…

So it is in the entrance of [reconstructed: this] great work of preparation for Christ and our effectual bringing home to him, never see sin aright, the soul cannot be affected with it in a right manner, never truly see the need of a Savior, never seek after him or come to him;…

(5.) To believe is to cleave to God, from a root that signifies to adhere as things glued together with pitch or glue (Psalm 63:8; Joshua 23:8; Deuteronomy 11:22), so we become one Spirit with the Lord (2 Corinthians 3). (6.) It is a word of near adherence [⟨ in non-Latin alphab…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…