2 KINGS 15 (FROM CAC'S NOTES)
2 KINGS 15 (FROM CAC’S NOTES)
Azariah’s history is passed over briefly in Kings, which gives the public position; Chronicles gives what may be called the moral history. God takes account of what goes on publicly amongst brethren, and He visits certain conditions with marks of displeasure. But He also keeps chronicles, which are written in heaven at the present time, and in His chronicles He records the inward history of things. That is what we should desire to be acquainted with. There are people who can write books about the brethren and tell of divisions and controversies and troubles, but who do not know anything about God’s chronicles; they do not know the inward history at all.
In this chapter we see that God is having His way governmentally in relation to what is public all the time. Jehu, though a very unspiritual man, had carried out God’s mind in the judgment of the house of Ahab and in extirpating Baal from Israel and God recompensed him by promising that his sons should sit upon the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. A person may be used by God in His government, and even recompensed for faithfulness, without having any true blessing from Him. He used Jeroboam to restore the border of Israel (2 Kings 14: 25); He used King Henry VIII in this country and liberty was later secured for worship of God.
This chapter also records that Pul the king of Assyria came against the land and later Tiglath-Pileser also a king of Assyria.