2 Kings 22:15,16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Tell the man that sent you She uses no compliments. Even kings, though gods to us, are men to God, and shall be so dealt with: for with him there is no respect of persons. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon this place, &c. She lets him know, both what judgments God had in store for Judah and Jerusalem, and what mercy was laid up for him. Even all the words According to all the words, of the book All the plagues threatened in Deuteronomy 28., and in other places. The Scriptures must be fulfilled. They that will not be bound by the precept, shall be bound by the penalty. And God will be found no less terrible to the ungodly, than his word makes him to be. Take warning in time, O impenitent sinner! whosoever thou art.

2 Kings 22:15-16

15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: