Volume II
The Second Book of Chronicles
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. II, p. 846
This book greatly coincides with the First and Second Book of Kings, and contains a history of about 480 years, till the return from Babylon: only there we had the history of Israel and Judah mixed together; in this we have scarcely anything but the history of David's descendants, much of which we had not before. In general the good kings were successful, and the wicked severely punished, as Moses had predicted, Le. xxvi.; De. xxviii.-xxxii.; iv. 25-30. Here we have the peaceable reign of Solomon, ch. i.-ix.; the blemished reign of Rehoboam, x.-xii.; the short but busy reign of Abijah, xiii.; the long and happy reign of Asa, xiv.-xvi.; the pious and prosperous reign of Jehoshaphat, xvii.-xx.; the infamous reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah, xxi. xxii.; the unsteady reigns of Joash and Amaziah, xxiii.-xxv.; the long, prosperous, but ill-concluded reign of Uzziah, xxvi.; the regular reign of Jotham, xxvii.; the idolatrous, profane, and miserable reign of Ahaz, xxviii.; the reforming and glorious reign of Hezekiah, xxix.-xxxii.; the deforming and wicked reigns of Manasseh and Amon, xxxiii.; the pious and reforming reign of Josiah, xxxiv. xxxv.; and the reigns of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, destructive to the nation, xxxvi.