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…

The First Sermon witnessing in General against all the Idols, and Inventions of men in the Worship of God. 2 Kings 18:4, 5, 6, 7. Ver. 4. He removed the high places, and brake the images, & cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to t…

THE SECOND SERMON Witnessing more particularly against the Ceremonies of the Church of ENGLAND. The Text, 2 Kings 18:4. And he removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent, that Moses had made, for to those days,…

A TESTIMONY FROM THE SCRIPTURE AGAINST IDOLATRY & SUPERSTITION, In Two Sermons; Upon the Example of that Great Reformer Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:4. The first, Witnessing in generall against all the Idols and Inventions of men in the Worship of God.

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…

First, Who is meant by the King of Princes. We are here to understand the King of Assyria, because he was a great King whose nobles were princes, and we find this both by Scripture and likewise by human story; in (2 Kings 18:24) How then will you turn away the face of one captai…

I suppose, he knows, that at least until the Captivity, when most of the Scripture was written, the Hebrew, and not the Syriack, was the vulgar language of that people. It's true indeed, that some of the noble and chief men that had the transaction of affairs with Neighbour-Nati…

Now by the contrary is commanded, to acknowledge, love, desire, delight in, and outwardly practise all those parts of his worship, which he in his word has commanded (Deuteronomy 12:32; John 4:22; 2 Kings 17:26). In the second in like manner, is forbidden by one sort, to acknowl…

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…

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. And therefore in the greater transgressions of the Law, the people were said to forsake, to break, to profane, to transgress the covenant of God (Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 3:20; Chap. 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Joshua 7:11; 2 Kings 18:…

Neither is it true, that Ahaz served the King of Assyria under tribute; and it may seem rather that Hezekiah did so for a season, seeing it is expresly said, that he rebelled against him, and served him no more (2 Chronicles 18:7). Yes, plainly he did so, and paid him by way of…

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…

That it is Hezekiah who is principally intended in these lofty allegorical expressions, that was then rising up from the broken rod of Judah, is evident. He is termed a cockatrice, and a fiery flying serpent, not from his own nature, which was tender, meek, and gentle, wherein t…

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…

Hence were these inventions among the old Romans, by spells and enchantments to entice away a deity from any city they besieged, (they being as expert at the getting of a devil, as Tobias's Raphael, or the present Romanists at his fumigation) by which means they shrived into the…

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…

Now he frequently obviates the power of exerting sin actually, by cutting short and taking away the lives of them that have conceived it. Thus he dealt with the Army of Sennacherib, when according as he had purposed, so he threatened that the Lord should not deliver Jerusalem ou…

Moses likewise took punishment with the sword, upon those, who did worship the golden calf; (Exodus 32:26, 27, 28). 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 t…

Is it the duty of the Civil Magistrate to take order that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed, all abuses in worship and discipline reformed, and all idolaters, gainsayers, and other obstinate dissenters…