Wesley Corpus

Case the criminal in steel, and it is all one: he that made him, can make his sword approach him. And that which to us seems altogether casual, comes by the determinate counsel of God. Died - Finding too late the truth of Micaiah's words; and Zedekiah's horns of iron, pushing not the Syrians, but himself, into destruction. Ivory house - Not that it was made of solid ivory, but because the other materials were covered, or inlaid with ivory. Of Ahab - Who reigned twenty two years; therefore he reigned about eighteen years with Ahab. High places - He took them away, but not fully; or not in the beginning of of his reign. Made peace - With Ahab first, and then with his son. This is noted as a blemish in his government, 2Chron 19:2, and proved of most mischievous consequence to his posterity. A deputy - Sent, and set over them by the kings of Judah, from the time of David, until the days of Jehoram, 2Chron 21:8. Would not - He did join with Ahaziah before this time, and before the ships were broken: for the breaking of the ships mentioned here, is noted to be the effect of his sin, in joining with Ahaziah, 2Chron 20:37. And Jehoshaphat being warned and chastised by God for this sin, would not be persuaded to repeat it. Ahaziah, c. - Ahaziah was made king by his father, and reigned in conjunction with him a year or two before Ahab's death, and as long after it; even as Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat was made king by his father in his life - time, which possibly was done in compliance with Ahab's desire upon marriage of his daughter to Jehoshaphat's son; and it may be Ahab, to induce him to do so, give him an example of it, and made his son his partner in the kingdom. In the way - Which seems added, to shew, how little the example of parents, or ancestors, is to be valued where it is opposed to the will and word of God. His father, c. - Most unhappy parents, that thus help to damn their own children's souls!