The king said, Art thou made of the king's counsel? Who art thou, that presumest to direct my affairs without my commission? Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Provoke me no further, lest I cause thee to be killed for thy impudence. The prophet's reproof was too just to be answered, and the king could say nothing in excuse for his own folly; but he fell into a passion with the reprover. To the prophet who directed him to send back the army of Israel, he hearkened, though that prophet both contradicted his politics, and lost him a hundred talents of silver: but with this prophet, who only dissuaded him from worshipping the gods of the Edomites, he had no patience, but instantly fell upon him with an unaccountable rage; which must be attributed to the witchcraft of idolatry. Then the prophet forbare He ceased to advise or reprove him any further, but only denounced the divine sentence passed upon him, for this contempt of God's message to him, and his other sins, which came to pass, 2 Chronicles 25:20-27. The secure sinner, perhaps, values himself on his having silenced his reprovers and monitors. But what comes of it? I know that God has determined to destroy thee It is a plain indication that thou art marked for ruin; because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to the divine counsel They that are deaf to reproof, are ripening apace for destruction.
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2 Chronicles 25:16
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determinede to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.