2 Chronicles 25:16 - Exposition

The chapter well keeps up in this verse its graphic character, though the culminating instances of it are yet to come. Forbear . The faithful prophet is "wise as the serpent, harmless as the dove." He does forbear, but not till the application of his speech, and all that was needful is most outspokenly (more so than before he had heard the usual coward fashion of the tyrant's threat) pronounced. His forbearing, therefore, is open to no charge of moral cowardice and unprophet-like infidelity.