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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. God’s people cannot sin without coming under chastisement. Remember this word of the Lord, “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him Bad as he was, he knew the hand that smote him, and he besought Jehovah. What a wonder it is that God does hear the prayers of even wicked men! I have heard it said, sometimes, that “the prayer of the wicked is an abomination unto God.” There is no such passage as that in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. The Lord gave them deliverance from the cruel fetters of the Syrians. They had been so tormented, so plundered, so oppressed in every way, that God had pity upon them, and gave them peace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.) Israel’s repentance was only half-hearted; they repented because they suffered. They repented because of the suffering rather than because of the sin. They went back to the sin after they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing. God helped them and delivered them; but they were brought very, very low. If God’s people sin, their deliverance will cost them dearly. Israel was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? They were not worth writing in the Scriptures. We have very slender records concerning Jehoahaz; but quite enough for such a wicked man.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead. In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. And he did that which was evil in, the sight of the LORD; One sinner was followed by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein. I repeat what I said before, what a mischievous thing is one evil example! When a man makes another sin, the other who sins is guilty, and the man who makes him sin is a sharer in his guilt. Here is Jeroboam, dead for years, and yet, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? And Joash slept with, his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash, was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Now, here is a story...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. An old man, probably in his ninetieth year; he had served his generation well. We read nothing of him for five and forty years; he seems to have been in comparative seclusion; perhaps in his old age he had been neglected and forgotten, as many a man of God has been who once stood in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it; and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands. Not because he could lend much strength, for he was an old man; but because this signified that God would be with the king,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Open the window eastward. They had no glass windows in those days, you know; but they threw back the iron bars that made the shutter, and opened the window eastward. 2Ki_13:17. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. I suppose, a quiver full. 2Ki_13:18. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. “Shoot the arrows out of the window, and let them strike into the ground, and stick there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, Elisha was angry, but he did not sin. He loved the people, and he was grieved to think that the king was so slack and slothful.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shall smite Syria but thrice. And Elisha died, and they buried him. God has different ways of taking his people home. Some go on a sudden, whirled away, as Elijah was. This prophet died gently, worn out with age; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. Thus God gave Elisha power,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant Ah, that is what always lies at the bottom of God’s mercy, “his covenant.” Oh, that grand word “covenant”! Some think very little of it, few preach much about it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. He would not do it till he was fully driven to it, till provocation upon provocation should wear out his patience,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in, his stead. And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel. He shot three arrows, and now it came to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So was Israel carried away out of their own hand to Assyria this day. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. It was a part of the...