Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
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Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh, and they testified against them; but they would not listen.
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Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
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Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them back unto the LORD; and they admonished them, but they would not give ear.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 24:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 17:13-15 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.” Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God. They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Nehemiah 9:26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Psalms 95:7-8 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- Isaiah 28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
- Isaiah 42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
- Isaiah 51:4 “Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
- Isaiah 55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Jeremiah 7:25-26 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
- Jeremiah 25:4-5 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.
- Jeremiah 26:5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;
- Jeremiah 44:4-5 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.” But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.
- Matthew 13:9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
- Matthew 13:15-16 for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’ “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
- Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
- Luke 16:31 “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
- Luke 20:9-15 He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’ “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain They took heaven and earth and all creatures to…
They took heaven and earth and all creatures to witness, that except they returned to the Lord, he would most grievously punish their infidelity and rebellion, Neh. 9:26.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to…
2Ch 24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
Ver. 19. Yet he sent prophets to them.] As God loveth to foresignify; such is his pity and patience.
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And they testified against them: but they would not give ear.] The Vulgate rendereth it, Quos Protestantes illi audire nolebant: which Poynes {a} the Papist construeth thus, Whom those Protestants would not hear; and therehence, very doctor like, inferreth that it was foretold in the Old Testament that the Protestants were a malignant church, whereas Protestantes there is to be referred to prophets going before; and so it followeth better that the name of Protestants - though in contempt put upon the reformed churches by the Papists, by reason of their protestation against the Romish religion made at Spires above a hundred years since - yet is ancient and honourable; and that they were idolaters that would not give ear to those Protestants of old - as neither will they to this day - who called heaven and earth to witness against them.
{a} Preface to his book Of the Sacraments. Sic et Duacerises, Anglice
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they conspired against him,.... Consulted together to take…
And they conspired against him,.... Consulted together to take away his life, and got the order of the king to do it:
and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord; where he had stood and reproved them; this they did before he went out, while in the temple; and if he is the same Zechariah, as some think, our Lord speaks of, he was slain between the temple porch and the altar, Mat 23:35; see Gill on Mat 23:35.
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2Ch 24:19. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again — God’s goodness was astonishing, in sending messengers to reclaim such a base people; whose wickedness was no less wonderful, in that they hearkened to the great men among them, rather than to those whom they knew to be true prophets of Jehovah.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Them. Calling heaven and earth to witness (C.) the…
Them. Calling heaven and earth to witness (C.) the unity of God. H. --- These prophets might have been performing their sacred commission ever since the reign of Josaphat; during which time Eliseus, Micheas, Jehu, and others, lived, C. xx. 14., and xviii. 27. C.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Yet he sent prophets--Elisha, Micah, Jehu son of Hanani,…
Yet he sent prophets--Elisha, Micah, Jehu son of Hanani, Jahaziel son of Zechariah (Ch2 20:14), Eliezer son of Dodavah (Ch2 20:37), lived and taught at that time. But all their prophetic warnings and denunciations were unheeded.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. he sent prophets] Cp. 2Ch_36:15.
19. he sent prophets] Cp. 2Ch_36:15.
to them] Rather, among them.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) Yet.—And.
(19) Yet.—And.
To them.—Among them.
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And they testified against them.—Solemnly besought them, exhorted them in the name of God (Exo_20:21; 2Ki_17:13).
But they would.—And they did.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Prophets. The name of only one, Zechariah, as in…
Prophets. The name of only one, Zechariah, as in next verse, is given (see by the side of this verse the emphatic and touching language. (2Ch_36:14-16)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them…
2Ch_24:19-21
Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord.
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Judahs apostasy
I. Prophetic denunciation of apostasy resented.
II. Zechariahs death was parallel with that of St. Stephen.
1. His offence was the denunciation of the sin of the leaders of Judah (Act_7:51-53).
2. Stoned as a blasphemer.
III. Contrast in the spirit of Judaism and Christianity--
1. Zechariahs last words: The Lord look on it and requite it.
2. Stephens: Lord lay not this sin to their charge.
IV. Reflections.
1. The value of a wise and true friend. Jehoiadas influence on Joash.
2. The necessity of a moral reformation as well as a political to secure permanent results in religious changes. The reformation under Joash was merely outward conformity.
V. The certainty that a faithful ministry implies the unpopularity of those who exercise it.
1. All the prophets suffered under Judaism (Mat_23:35; Luk_11:51).
2. Christ, Stephen, the apostles, the early Christians. Reformers all through history.
3. Human nature always the same. It hates those who attack its sins.
VI. The spirit that resents faithful reproof always entails retribution on itself (verse 23). To do wrong and refuse instruction is the greatest misfortune a man can suffer.
VII. The necessity to do right for dutys sake, without expecting gratitude or acknowledgment. (J. C. Geikie, D.D.)
The goodness of King Joash
1. In ten years from the death of Jehoiada, Joash was so utterly another man that you cannot recognise in him one feature of that godly disposition which distinguished his earlier years. He is a sad illustration of the deceitfulness of the human heart; of the weakness of the natural man; and of the perishing nature of that impulsive goodness which rests solely for its permanence upon the constraining influences of others.
2. Joash still represents a large class--persons of warm and susceptible feelings, acting habitually under impulse, of a temper of mind volatile, or pliable, or keenly sensitive, upon which impressions are easily made and as easily effaced.
3. Speaking as I am in a university city, I am reminded that I can point to no spot more suggestive than this of the evanescent quality of that light of the soul which is simply reflected, of that transient goodness which walks by sight and not by faith. How many young men have gathered here, filled with noble emulation, and strong in their own resolution to fulfil the purpose of their coming! And what has followed? First the whisper of the arch-tempter, You are free; eat, drink, and be merry. Then the sceptic, asking contemptuously, What is truth? The controversial humourist, commending his ingenious sophistries with insidious drollery. The listless idler, intruding his unwelcome presence upon the conventional hours of study. The voluptuary, putting his bottle to his companions, and filling them with shame for glory. The sinner in the city, whose house is in the way to hell. The tradesman with his offer of unlimited credit. The sordid moneylender, weaving his web of usury. These, and such as these, have made their obeisance, like the princes of Judah; and behold, Jehoiada is gone, and Joash has hearkened to them! He has left the God of his fathers. He cannot prosper, because God has forsaken him.
4. Oh, if I am to send my son to fight the good fight of faith, to wrestle against the powers of darkness, let me stablish him with this fact as the counterpoise and antidote to the delusions of the world--that he is now a responsible being. (Henry Drury, M.A.)
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