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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 32:20

2 Chronicles 32:20Prayed and cried to heaven.True prayerTrue prayer is not pestering the Throne with passionate entreaties that a certain method of deliverance which seems best to us, should be forthwith effected; but is a calm utterance of need, and a patient, submissive expectance of fitting help, of which we dare not define the manner or the time. They are wisest, most trustful and reverent, who do not seek to impose their notions or wills on the clearer wisdom and deeper love to which they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 32:24-25

2 Chronicles 32:24-25In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death. Hezekiah’s sickness and recoveryI. The great contrasts in the events of life.II. The suddenness with which these events happen.III. The distress with which they are often attended.IV. The wonderful deliverance which God can grant. (James Wolfendale.)But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him--A ruler’s sinI. An undoubted truth; that sins of the rulers and the people ruled, are so intimately connected,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 32:26

2 Chronicles 32:26Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart.Hezekiah’s sin and humiliationI. Show the nature and grounds of hezekiah’s humiliation. His sin does not seem great in human estimation; but it was exceeding sinful in God’s sight.1. He sought his own glory. He wished to show what a great man he was, in order that his alliance might be courted and his power feared.2. He sought his own glory in preference to God’s honour. He had now a happy opportunity of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 32:31

2 Chronicles 32:31God left him to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.Hezekiah’s fall considered and appliedI. Hezekiah’s sin.1. Its nature.(1) All sin originates in the heart. Hezekiah’s sin did not, like that of David, break forth into gross and external violations of the Divine law, but it betrayed itself in the indulgence of secret pride, in the gratification of a vainglorious spirit, in an idolatrous exaltation of the creature above the Creator. His heart was lifted... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 32:32-33

2 Chronicles 32:32-33Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness.Hezekiah’s goodnessI. The genuine goodness shall not want appropriate record and remembrance.1. God, the inspirer of goodness in the hearts of men, will not forget it.2. The beneficiaries of goodness will not be unmindful of their benefactors.3. Sympathetic imitators will mirror forth their goodness, from whom they have derived its idea and impulse. Christian philanthropists like John Howard and Elizabeth Fry are living... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:1

2Ch 32:1 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. Ver. 1. After these things. ] See 2 Kings 18:13 , &c. When Hezekiah had set all things in good order, up came Sennacherib with his army. So after sweet communion with God, at the sacrament or otherwise, look for "leviathan, that crooked serpent," to disturb all. And the establishment thereof. ]... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:2

2Ch 32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, Ver. 2. That Sennacherib was come. ] See on 2 Kings 18:13 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:3

2Ch 32:3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him. Ver. 3. To stop the waters of the fountains. ] He trusted in God: but yet used the best means. God is to be trusted, but not tempted. See Isaiah 22:9 ; Isaiah 22:11 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:4

2Ch 32:4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? Ver. 4. And the brook. ] Called Gihon. 2Ch 32:30 This was one of those rivers the waters whereof made glad the city of God. See 1 Kings 1:33 . Come and find much water. ] Take we like care that Satan, when he cometh to assault us, find not much matter. "Mortify therefore your earthly... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 32:5

2Ch 32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. Ver. 5. And raised it up to the towers. ] Or, Mounted the warlike engines upon the towers, for his better defence. read more

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