4<\/strong>. to seek the Lord<\/em> ] Cp. 2Ch 15:12-13<\/span>.<\/p>\n By his royal edicts he required them to worship God, and him only, and to practise all which the laws of Moses required of them. <\/P> <\/p>\n And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers<\/strong>,…. To pray to him, and him only, and attend his worship and service; this he did by a public edict:<\/p>\n and to do the law and the commandment<\/strong>: to observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and civil.<\/p>\n (4) And commanded Judah to seek.<\/strong>amar<\/em> with infinitive. (Comp. 1Ch. 21:17<\/span>.) The chroniclers own style is visible in this verse.<\/p>\n To seek the Lord God of their fathers.<\/strong>The same phrase recurs in 2Ch. 15:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n The law and the commandment.<\/strong>Exo. 24:12<\/span>, That I may give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment<\/em> that I have written (Deu. 6:25<\/span>).<\/p>\n And the images.<\/strong>Hammanm.<\/em> (Comp. the word hammah,<\/em> sun.) Pillars or statues to the sun-god, standing before or upon the altars of Baal, are intended (see Lev. 26:30<\/span>; Isa. 17:8<\/span>; 2Ch. 34:4<\/span>.) Comp. the Phenician deity Baal-hamman.<\/em><\/p>\n The kingdom was quiet before him.<\/strong>Enjoyed peace under his oversight. Compare the use of the word before, in Num. 8:22<\/span>; Psa. 72:5<\/span> (before the moon).<\/p>\n 2Ch 14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.<\/p>\n Ver. 4. And commanded Judah.<\/strong> ] It is not enough to pull down superstition; but God’s sincere service also must be set up.<\/p>\n commanded: 2Ch 29:21, 2Ch 29:27, 2Ch 29:30, 2Ch 30:12, 2Ch 33:16, 2Ch 34:32, 2Ch 34:33, Gen 18:19, Jos 24:15, 1Sa 3:13, Ezr 10:7-12, Neh 13:9, Neh 13:19-22, Psa 101:2-8 <\/p>\n seek: 2Ch 11:16, 2Ch 30:19, Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7, Amo 5:4 <\/p>\n to do: Neh 10:29-39, Psa 119:10 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ch 14:7 – we have sought<\/p>\n 2Ch 14:4-5. He commanded Judah to seek the Lord By his royal edicts he commanded them to worship God, and him only. And to do the law, and the commandment To observe all divine institutions, which many had neglected, and to practise all that the law of Moses required of them. And the kingdom was quiet before him Though, it is probable, they were much in love with their idols, and very loath to part with them; yet the convictions of their consciences sided with the commands of Asa, and they could not, for shame, but comply with them. They that have power in their hands, and will use it vigorously for the suppression of profaneness, and the reformation of manners, will, in general, not meet with so much difficulty and opposition as, perhaps, they might expect. Vice is a mean and base thing, and carries its own shame and condemnation on the face of it; while virtue has always reason enough on its side to make iniquity stop her mouth, Psa 107:42.<\/p>\n And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 4. to seek the Lord ] Cp. 2Ch 15:12-13. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges By his royal edicts he required them to worship God, and him only, and to practise all which the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 14:4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"