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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His mother’s name also was Zibiah of Beersheba. And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. As long as his uncle lived, that truly devout statesman as well as priest of the Lord, “Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. And it came to pass after this, Probably, some three and twenty years after, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD. Jehoiada had with him broken in pieces the images of Baal, and battered down the temples of the idols; and now the young king is “minded to repair the house of Jehovah.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. It is a great pity when those who live in the house of God have not enough interest in it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witnesses? For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jehoiada waxed old, It happened to him as it must happen to us all; for the best of men must grow old, and pass away. Let us value them while we have them. Too often we give them stones while they are alive, in anticipation of giving them bigger stones to keep them in memory when they die. “Jehoiada waxed old,” — 2Ch_24:15. And was full of day...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. That is the best kind of good which begins with doing good toward God, and then goes on to doing good towards God’s house. The Church is to be served, but even it must be second to God’s glory. God first, and then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. These flatterers came with all their daintiest manners, and made obeisance to the king, and “the king hearkened unto them.” All the days of Jehoiada, these princes had been afraid to set up the fashionable worship the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: Or, “Asherah and idols.” The word is mistakenly translated “groves.” These were certain horrible and disgusting emblems of the heathen goddess Ashtaroth, or Astarte: “They served Asherah and idols.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. “These old Puritans have come back again,” said they. “We will not listen to them.” The common people were still mostly worshippers of Jehovah; but the great...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. He spoke very temperately and affectionately. The warning was faithful; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord. This is probably the prophet to whom Christ alludes when he speaks of Zechariah, “whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.” It was a crime most foul to murder the son of Jehoiada, one of those who had helped to put...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it. And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: So that he died before he reached the prime of life; he was cut off by God in the very midst of his sin.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, — They had set up the worship of God under emblems, there were the calves of Bethel, the representation of strength: it was the worship of God by imagery, and Ahaz imitated it, and went even further in sin, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And made also molten images for Baalim. If we worship the true God under some symbol, the next step is to worship a false God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. The worship of Moloch was one of the most horrible that can be imagined. A brazen image was made terribly hot, and then children were thrust into its...