2 Kings 22

Thus in the fifth commandment, obedient children are promised by God long life, as a reward for honoring their Parents. Now when he takes them away in their best age, as he did Josiah, 2 Kings 22:10, he gives them eternal life, which is not only proportionable, but far exceeding…

Reason 2. 2 Kings 22:20: Huldah the prophetess tells Josiah that he must be gathered to his fathers and put in his grave in peace, that his eyes may not see all the evil which God would bring on that place. Therefore the saints departed do not see the state of the Church on eart…

But what is a tender heart, but a heart which is easily impressed with what ought to affect it? God commends Josiah, because his heart was tender; and it is evident by those things which are mentioned as expressions and evidences of this tenderness of heart, that by his heart be…

"And Elisha came again to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets." In Elijah's and Elisha's time, there were several pla…

No such way to infect the whole town, as to poison the Cistern at which they draw their water; who shall perswade Ahab that he may go to Ramoth-Gilead and fall? Satan can tell, I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of his Prophets, 2 Kings 22:21. How shall the profane be hardene…

Third, Christ commends this (Jeremiah 31:18): I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself. 2 Kings 22:19. Because your heart was tender — and you have wept before me, I have also heard you, says the Lord. Luke 7:44. She has washed my feet with tears.

Eli was a good man, and yet the threatening of God took hold on him, and his house; and David though a godly man, yet the sword never departed from his house; so that the threatenings belong to God's people, and we must so account them; else we shall read the word in vain, when…