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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. He could not do enough of it; so many trees, so many altars. There are some men who use every opportunity for sin, with a diligence which should bring the blush into the face of Christians, who are not as diligent in obeying as these men are in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. According to the command of God, there was to be but one altar, and that one was to be at Jerusalem; but these people multiplied their altars; there could not be a high place but they must have an idol shrine set up upon it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. It did not look as if the captives would ever return; yet the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. He received blow upon blow; God would not let him rest in his sin....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah, the king’s son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king. And the children of Israel...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war, and said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. When men are determined to be unbelievers and disobedient, they will send anywhere for help but to the Lord. Israel and Syria were very little kingdoms; but Assyria was a great empire, the mighty nation of the period. Yet no help came to Ahaz from that quarter, for we read in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. The king of Assyria was the greatest potentate in that region, and all the little kings were afraid of him, and therefore sent to him for help when they were in trouble. Ahaz made no appeal to God, for the assistance he required, but he turned to the arm of flesh.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. The Edomites had been under subjection to Judah; but now that God had left her, Judah could not hold her position.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Philistines also — A people that one might have thought had become extinct, so weak were they that we scarcely hear of them; yet “the Philistines also” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnab with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not. And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz. A black mark is put against his name, to show how greatly guilty he was....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: There was a holy and reverent feeling amongst the remnant of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. Now turn to Isaiah, the second chapter, and the sixth verse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: but did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, Yet who could have had a better father than Manasseh had? He was given to Hezekiah during those fifteen years which God graciously added to that good king’s life. Manasseh was, therefore,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, He was, therefore, born after the time when Hezekiah was raised up from the bed of sickness. That prolongation of life was not all mercy: I am not sure that we should be so eager for such an extension of earthly existence either for ourselves or for others. Had Hezekiah been able to foresee...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. It often happens that, when the sons of good men become bad, they are among the worst of men. They who pervert a good example generally run headlong to destruction.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But did that which was evil in the light of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD, had cast out before the children of Israel. The Lord drove out the Canaanites for the very sins that Manasseh committed. If we follow in the sins of others, we must not wonder if we share in their doom. It is a sad thing, however, when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. One form of idolatry was not enough for him; he must have all forms of it, even rearing altars to Baal, and making the stars also to be his gods.