2 Chronicles 10:4 - The Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 10:4 - Exposition

The grievous servitude … heavy yoke . These may, for conciseness' sake, be supposed to correspond with the naturally enough hated "forced labour" ( 1 Kings 4:6 , 1 Kings 4:7 ; 1 Kings 5:13-16 ; 1 Kings 11:27 , 1 Kings 11:28 ) and the burdensome "taxes" ( 1 Kings 4:19-28 ) which had not failed to become more odious to the people as familiarity with them grew. The refreshing New Testament contrast to all this ( Matthew 11:28-30 ) will occur to every memory.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

2 Chronicles 10:4 - Exposition

2 Chronicles 10:4 - Exposition

The Pulpit Commentary

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