The child's commentator on the holy Scriptures

by Ingram Cobbin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 ...which he seems to have built. When we sec plainly that we have done what is displeasing to God, we can never act more wisely than Jehoshaphat did in not doing it again. We should always avoid forming any sort of alliance with the wicked, it will be sure to do us some harm. Ahaziah began to reign over Israel when Jehoshaphat had reigned nearly seventeen years over Judah. His reign was very short, being only two years. He was as wicked as his father, though he saw to what his wickedness had brought him, in disobeying God"s voice by his prophet; and he walked in his father's ways, and in those of bis wicked mother, Jezebel, and worshipped the idol, Baal, and so provoked God. We shall read his sad end in the next Book of Kings. Sickness and Death of Ahaziah, and Destruction of a Hundred of his Soldiers by Fire from Heaven. n KINGS I. HAZIAH succeeded his father Ahah, as king over Israel, and, like his father, he was a very wicked man. It appears that his reign was disturbed, and that Moab rebelled against him--that is, refused to pay a tribute which had been paid from the times of David, when " the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts." Most likely, while he was so troubled by the Moabites, a yet greater trouble came upon him, for he "fell down through a lattico in his upper chamber, that was in Samaria, and was sick." Now we may see what kind of a man he was, for, instead of asking God to cure him, or to bless the means used for his cure, "He sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the God of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease." But who was this Baal-zebub? An idol worshipped by the wicked Philistines, who lived in Ekron, a part of the country belonging to that people. This w...

214 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

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1777-1851