2 Kings 21

This appears, by vouchsafing mercy to Rahab a notable harlot: and as he dealeth with Rahab here, so hath he showed like mercy to other notorious sinners. King Manasseh had sold himself to Idolatry and witchcraft, and had shed innocent blood exceeding much, and caused Judah to si…

For which cause it is said, that his hands built Jerusalem (Psalm 47:2). Now as touching that which Isaiah here threatens against the Idumeans, the holy Spirit pronounces the like elsewhere, against the house of Ahab: meaning that it should be razed even with the ground (2 Kings…

Thus then, to be set as a seal on his heart, does imply, 1. Exceeding great nearness to Christ, even to have a special room and seat in his heart. 2. It imports, a settledness in that condition, that she may be set there, as the Lord says of Jerusalem, (2 Kings 21:4) there I hav…

They have forgotten Christ's caveat (Luke 3:14): Do violence to no man. Ahab violently took away Naboth's vineyard (2 Kings 21:11). Hell is taken by this violence (Proverbs 4:17): Who drink the wine of violence.

He spoke, and it was done, he commanded, and it stood fast; [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] For he himself spoke, and it was: the Lord's word gives being to things, by the contrary; men's deeds are nothing but words; so the lives, being, and actions of the Kings of Israel and Judah,…