2 Kings 25

Jerusalem was the most famous metropolis of the world: There was the temple (Psalm 122:4). Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord. Yet for their high places and images, their city was besieged and taken by the Chaldean forces (2 Kings 25:4). When images were set up in Co…

In our Courts we know what abundance of sin was there, now the Owls shall keep Court there instead of these Courtiers that lived so bravely there formerly. Oh my Brethren! sin is a leprosy that infects the doors of our houses: there's a notable story in 2 Kings 25:9. It said of…

They called on the name of Baal, saying, O Baal hear us, 1 Kings 18, 26, 27, 28. Many of these were slain by Elijah, and the whole Race of them afterwards extirpated by Jehu, 2 Kings 25, 26, 27, 28. This put an End to his Diety, for it is said, he destroyed Baal out of Israel; f…

In this sense is it used in that frequent expression, if I have found grace in your sight: that is, if I be freely and favorably accepted before you. So he gives grace, (that is, favor) to the humble (James 4:6; Genesis 39:21; chapter 41:37; Acts 7:10; 1 Samuel 2:26; 2 Kings 25:…

Thus God many ways manifesting his indignation against the Jews, they had just cause even with fasting to humble themselves all those times: and because they felt the smart of every one of those strokes all the time of the captivity, they continued (as there was just cause) thei…