Category: Earlier Historical Books By William Kelly
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 21-25
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but “did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah after the…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 19 and 20
“And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz” (2 Kings 19). He goes to Jehovah; they are sent to Jehovah’s servant. This was right. He looks in prayer…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapter 18
The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but for a season, and a season protracted long, even to this day. There has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jehovah will set His hand a second time, and will recover them and bring…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 13-17
But not merely this. “Elisha died and they buried him” (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no doubt, he had witnessed; but — with what great toil…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 11-13
But in the eleventh chapter we have another scene of deep import and interest. There is a wicked woman — and when a woman is wicked there is no wickedness like hers. “And when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose, and destroyed all…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapter 10
But of this dreadful work all was not over, for Ahab had seventy sons (2 Kings 10). It seemed utterly beyond the scope of man’s thought that such a family could fall — seventy sons. Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu has to deal with them, and he was…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapter 9
We now enter upon the solemn stroke of judgment which it pleased God to execute at this time; first, within Israel, and at the hands either of men raised up in their midst, or from without, until at last it pleased God to sweep away the ten tribes from the…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 3-9
However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. “Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.” There was no doubt a painful state of things most offensive to God. Not that…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Kings Chapters 1 and 2
It has been already remarked that the mission, or, at any rate, the proper ministry of Elijah closed with his own complaint against the children of Israel. God took him at his word. He pleaded against, instead of for, Israel. Now he was called to a ministry of a judicial…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Kings Chapters 17-22
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God’s providence, but God’s government. That government, as no other, was the direct action through the family that God…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Kings Chapters 9-15
Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the importance that God attaches to the history of such as…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Kings Chapters 1-8
The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desired a king, to the disparagement of the prophets that judged Israel whom the Lord…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Samuel Chapters 13-24
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me to present, of their main course and objects. The most careless reader must perceive,…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 2nd Samuel Chapters 1-12
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back into the condition in which they had been before they sought in this…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Samuel Chapters 21-31
We enter now on a portion of David’s history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. Jonathan himself was convinced that this was vain; and as he went to the…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Samuel Chapters 16-20
Now that we have heard the prophet’s judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts of man. Then can lessons be more solemnly instructive than the contrast between Saul,…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Samuel Chapters 9-15
We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to have its way. On the one hand God, though not…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. 1st Samuel Chapters 1-8
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generations until they come down to David. It is sufficiently plain…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. Ruth
That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is actually found must have been felt by the spiritual mind. Indeed it is apparent to every attentive reader of Scripture; for by outward marks it clearly belongs to the place where God has presented it to…
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Earlier Historical Books by William Kelly. Judges Chapters 9 to 21
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the chapters as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early portion of the book. We see that God…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 